Using the Internet of Things in academic

The purpose of this study is checking the attitudes of librarians in the central library of the first level universities about the Internet of things and present its application pattern in the academic library. This study was a survey-descriptive method. The statistical population of this research is librarians working in the central libraries of the first level universities in Iran, which consist of 298 persons. The sample size is 168 by the Cochran formula, but slightly more than 180 questionnaires were distributed. Among all distributed questionnaires, 113 questionnaires were collected. The result of this study is that the Internet of things technology was used in many library processes and in the activities of public services, technical services, and library services. The responses received from librarians as well as studies have shown that although the use of Internet of things technology will impose costs on libraries, on the other hand, due to the high value of this technology as well as the speed and ease with which the library's executive and managerial activities, it will arise, using this technology in the library was desirable. Finally, the result of the study leaded to present the design the pattern of usage of the Internet of things in the academic library.