Role of Public and Academic Libraries in Promoting and Dissemination of Entrepreneurship Services: Systematic Review

The entrepreneurship in public and academic libraries could provide new opportunities for librarians to take advantage of it for the development and overall extension. The purpose of this research is a systematic review of entrepreneurship researches in order to identify the role of public and academic libraries in promoting and dissemination of entrepreneurship services. The method is a systematic review. So that related researches at 10 national and international databases during the period of 1987 to 2018 searched. 248 researches were retrieved which after the control and review of studies, 63 most relevant ones were used for this research. The findings showed that national studies were used quantities approach(31/74) and international research were used qualitative approach(68/22). The findings of research also revealed that “developing services and products”, “Entrepreneurship education”, “Networking and support the needs of entrepreneurs”,  “Outreach of campus services for users”, “Start- up institution and business enterprises”, “Setting up business enterprises”, “Fundraising and Budget”, “Creating an Entrepreneurial Culture using Innovation and Creativity” were most important factor in dissemination and promoting of entrepreneurship services in libraries. Generally, systematic review of the status of researches done in the field of entrepreneurship in libraries showed that, this area requires more research in libraries. So that the final product of these studies can be improve service quality in libraries and, consequently libraries would be profit commercial and economic benefits.