Investigating the Rrelationship between Value Management and Creating Value in the Public Libraries

Value management is a structured approach to defining what value means to the organization and it is a team-based approach. This concept is a combination of planning tools and methods to find the optimum balance of project benefits in relation to project costs and is concerned with the creation of sustainable value. The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between value management and creating value in the management of public libraries in the province of Kerman, Iran.

The research method is survey-descriptive and correlational. The statistical population consists of all managers and staff of public libraries in Kerman. Due to the small number of participants, the Method of Estimating Total Population was used. To collect data, a 12 item questionnaire of value management and a questionnaire of another 12 questions of library management were used. The main components of the value management questionnaire included: quality and customer orientation; specialization, autonomy of action; management skills and facilitators; and professional structure.

The specialization components among the employees with mean = 3.6 and median= 4; quality and customer orientation with mean = 3.2 and median = 3.5 were higher than the average and the components of management skills and facilitators with Average 2.6 and Median 2.7; Professional structure with mean= 2.2 and median= 3.2 were below average. The components of specialization, autonomy of practice and management skills and facilitators have a significant predictive effect on library management. Also, according to the index of correlation coefficient, among the components of value management, the component of specialization, the autonomy of action, has the most relationship with value management. In general, findings show that the components of value management, except for the component of professional structure, have a significant relationship with the management of public libraries in Kerman.

Creating value with the current conditions of the public libraries of  the province Kerman is far from expected. The component of specialization and autonomy of action has been more focused. By applying value management components in the management structure of public libraries and other libraries, value creation and value added can be created through library services Professional. The results showed that the use of value management components can improve the work process in these libraries. It also attracts better users; Identifies the information needs of library members and makes information resources accessible. It was found that there is a close relationship between strengthening organizational culture and value management. Holding training skills courses is closely related to creating organizational culture and strengthening values. User communication skills increase the value of information services. Technical capabilities, familiarity with information technologies, computing, better understanding of library devices and equipment help preserve library values. .Increasing the quality of information services, providing customer orientation, paying attention to specialization, accurate grouping of specialization and independence of action, strengthening management skills and focusing on professionalism according to the components of value management are among the research suggestions.