Evaluation of acquaintance of members of Tabriz Central Library with Library Management Software and the concepts of its searching systems

This research evaluates the level of acquaintance of members of Tabriz Central Library with its facilities and services for needs assessment of library users training course. It is an analytical descriptive research. For gathering the data, 6 open questions and 33 close questions had been asked in a form of a questionnaire. A sample of 361 active member of Tabriz Central Library answered the questionnaire. The first hypothesis is evaluation of hypotheses about the existence of significant differences between the levels of familiarity with the library software on the members, with 95 percent confidence were confirmed. The second hypothesis that is about having significant difference between the users with high and low range referring to the library and level of familiarity with the library software with 95 percent confidence was confirmed. The third hypothesis that is about having significant difference between the users with high and low range of book check in the level of familiarity with the library software with 95 percent confidence was confirmed. Results showed that half of the library users are familiar with the library software concepts and facilities. According to these results it is needed to train the users for appropriate use of the library software.