نشریه مطالعات کتابداری و علم اطلاعات
سال دوازدهم شماره 2 (پیاپی 32، تابستان 1399)

embassies' websites should have high quality and interaction with each other so that an effective information and communication channel is established between embassies' websites and their visitors. The aim of this study was to determine embassies' websites status in terms of quality of embassies' websites and drawing Their network relationship.

This study is an applied work, which was carried through surveys and webometric methods during the 2015 and 2016. The population consisted of 145 embassies' websites. Evaluations were done using Website Quality Evaluation Tool and Webometric Analyst software.

The results of the findings showed that Out of the 145 studied embassies' website, 131 embassies' website had ranked as high-quality and reliable websites and 14 embassies' website were ranked as websites with very good quality. Moreover, in inspecting embassies' website using Webometric Analyst software, no network relationship was found between the embassies' websites.

In general, The research results showed that web designers have, to some extent, paid attention to website quality criteria, but paid no attention to establishing network relationship.

present study is based on the psychology of color by color, the impact on users of the Library Association of intellectual development and check the model for the above libraries.study was analytical work Data was collected through the checklist researcher and based on direct observation of colors used in the interiors of the Association library 36.the show most of the colors used in the library of the Association, in order of priority, cream, white cream, white green, grey, Brown, green, Orange, white Orange, white yellow green and orange green white and colors used in color combination from the previous training equipment, white, green, white, Orange and Brown.If color of the equipment apart from the colors used in the white space consider the maximum color used in the library and then repeated the most worms, and it can be concluded the Association's library lacks the model for painting according to psychologists and children's use of the color pattern of tastes, quiet and cool and a pattern of coloring stirring as the proposed pattern fit equipment Children's libraries offer.

This study aimed to inform that familiarity of librarian of Iranian national library about critical theory.

This is a descriptive study. In this study, data collection tools provided by (Hollister and Schroeder, 2014). Analysis tools are descriptive statistics and inferred statistics.

The findings showed that librarians did not have much familiarity about critical theorists (57%) but they had familiarity with social issues and critical activities related to library and information science (44%). 53 percent showed Marxist Criticism and Post Colonialism were more associated with critical theory. 51 percent of librarian had the same option in that role of libraries, the nature of librarianship, role of educational institutions and students/library users were the most important activities in critical theory related to library science.

The hypothesis showed that there were significant relationship between librarians and the most important activities in the library science.

Thus, this seem that all of the librarian should be familiarity with concepts of critical theory and it is necessary to include the critical theory concepts in the course of library and information science.

The present research has been performed to assess how many released final research reports are used by next final research reports.

The citations of 374 final research reports, from a collection of 15324, that were released during 2003 to 2013 were examined.

About 11031 citations have been totally used in the reviewed final reports, only a third of which (32%) were in Persian. Findings of the study show that only 181 (48%) final reports have cited previous research reports as an information resource. The findings from this study also suggest that the final reports released in 2011, 2013, and 2012 respectively , have made more extensive use of previous research reports. Those published in 2003 have made limited use of previous reports. In total, 405 (out of 11031) final reports have been cited by new final reports. Citation ratio of final reports to resources on the whole is 3.7 percent and ratio to Persian resources is about 11.4 percent. In addition, the findings indicate that 133 (33%) of citations to previous reports, represent self-citations.

This paper tries to explain the reading as a social practice. Therefore, while dealing with the concept of sociology of reading, pays to read as a social practice.

The method is analytical review.

The research findings have shown that the demographic and sociological factors influence the amount and type of reading practice. The theory of social action and public readings has been used to respond to how people read..

researcher in reading Studies used mainly three psychological, sociological and education paradigms. Two psychological and educational paradigms are dominant in reading studies and research related to lower cognitive aspect of society has been read. Less sociological aspect has been read and less sociological aspect has been addressed. Explanation Sociological act of reading not only affect the relationship between social and background factors that reading makes clear, It makes for a more comprehensive analysis of reading as a form of social interaction. Review the reading in the context of sociological theories in understanding; planning and the promotion of reading culture will be very effective.

The present study aimed at investigation the educational needs of librarians with the focus on general and technical job needs.

Research method was practical in terms of purpose, and the data collection procedure was descriptive. The research setting was all the public libraries of Shiraz. Data was collected through the use of questionnaire filled by 100 librarians.Data was analyzed descriptively and analytically by the employment of SPSS 22 to investigate the research questions analytically. One sample T-Test, Friedman Test and One-Way Annova were employed.

Results of the study indicated that while the highest educational needs of librarians were related to the career empowerment and advancement skills, the lowest educational needs were related to ICT skills and human resource management skill. Moreover, results demonstrated that gender and educational level can make difference in educational needs.

Librarians of public libraries require the permanent educational courses in both general and technical skills. For improving the knowledge and skill of those practitioners not only technical needs but also general needs should be taken into consideration

This study investigates the performance of web searching engine in retrieving the information in the field of information and knowledge.

The survey method is descriptive. So, the Five keywords (that ranked by experts) from papers entitled "2016 top trends in academic libraries" from "College and Research Libraries" journal were selected. Then 50 retrieved documents are at the top of the list of five search engines (Google, Yahoo, ASK, Bing and OAL) using the same search formula, were investigated.

The results showed that Google's performance was higher based on the indicators of relative recall (0. 24), precision (0.824), F ratio (0.36) and failure ratio (8.8). For the indicators of the novelty ratio (0.43) and the expected search time (0.60), the performance of the ASKwashigh. In addition, Yahoo (0.714) has a better performance coverage ratio.

Resultsindicate that for the precision of retrieval the Google search engine, for the new information the ASK search engine and for the comprehensiveness the Yahoo search engine are acceptable.

The purpose of this study was to provide essential components for acquisitions & collection-development module in library software for medical libraries of the country.

The study was descriptive. The tool used in this research was a questionnaire and a checklist designed by the researcher of 9 elements, 38 main characteristics and 172 sub-characteristics. The reliability coefficient of the questionnaire with Cronbach's alpha was 0.977. Data analysis was performed using SPSS at descriptive statistics.

The "billing" element with the mean of 4.37 was the most important and the "public facilities" element with the mean of 4.21 was the least important. Of the three softwares Azarsa, Ma'va and Sana2.0, the most consistent was Azarsa. Ma'va and Sana2.0 were at the second and the third rank respectively.

According to the experts' opinion, all the proposed elements and characteristics were recognized as important and the experts did not suggest a new element and feature. Accordingly, it is suggested that the acquisitions & collection-development module of any library software contain at least 8 elements, 32 main characteristics, and 118 sub-characteristics.

In this research, we are going to investigate the relation between the performances of academic libraries Managers and their effects on librarians' burnout. Methodology is of correlative descriptive research method and statistical society (population) includes 600 people form the whole librarians of ten academic libraries in Tehran under supervision of Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. The sample was 304 people and 234 people rejected the inquiries. This research conducted using a questionnaire to gather necessary data.Two kinds of questionnaire, Moslesh' standard burnout questionnaire and researcher made questionnaire of managers' performance have been used. The analysis of gathered data has been done by means of SPSS 19. Pearson correlation test and multiple variables regression analysis were used to investigate the relations between variables. Significant coefficient showed that, at 99% confidence level, there is negative significant relation between the performance of academic libraries managers and librarian burnout. That is, the more the performance of libraries manager improve, the less will be the librarians' burnout. Also, significant correlation showed that there is statistical significant negative relation between the dimensions of managers' performance and librarians' burnout, in 99% of confidence level. In addition, among the dimensions of managers' performance, just managers' problem solving abilities is able to predict the dependent variable (burnout).

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the development of learning experience through class participation.The current research is applied in a survey method. The statistical population consisted of undergraduate and postgraduate students of knowledge and Information Science in Razi University. The sample size was determined using Cochran's formula with 92 people. To collect data, two questionnaires of measuring the development of learning through, and assessing the status of self-management and subjective well-being are used. The findings of this study showed that the mean of self-knowledge and knowledge well-being of students is in desirable condition. The highest mean of perceived mental health and the lowest mean was related to self-management. Also, the average of learning through class participation and its dimensions is in the desired level from the viewpoint of the students that were studied. the results showed that there is a significant positive correlation between learning components through participation and self-management and well-being.Students who are involved in the learning process are more comfortable than others in terms of contentment, satisfaction and accountability in classroom.

The purpose of this research is to investigate the amount of social capital in the institution of public libraries of the country through the analysis of the scientific cooperation network between employees.

of the present study is descriptive-exploratory and using social network analysis, the authorship network of staff of the public libraries institution was studied. The data were analyzed by using the social network analysis through the UCINET Analysis and related map drew by NETDRAW software. The findings of the research showed that the network coherence of the authorship of the staff is 0.01 which represents the maximum scientific communication among 1% of the staff of this organization. Also, according to the network analysis, in relation to each of the indicators of centrality of degree, betweenness and the closeness, the role of the staff of the institution of public libraries are only 35%, 20% and 25%, respectively.

Due to the low coherence of the scientific cooperation network of staff and, with regard to betweenness centrality, it can be claimed that social capital is small.

Knowledge is a major strategic resource for the development of the competitive ability of organizations. But the implementation of KM is still challenging. One of the solutions for this challenge which is mentioned in KM literature is KM roadmapping. The purpose of this article is to facilitate the “organizational KM roadmapping” by developing an organizational ontology. Ontologies provide a framework for facilitating knowledge sharing and creation by modeling the domain of discourse formally. The proposed ontology has developed beneficiary literature review in “organizational KM roadmapping” and “organizational ontology” areas. Initially, the fundamental concepts and relationships involved in all aspects of “organizational KM roadmapping” are analyzed in detail and ontology is presented. In the first phase; the basic ontology entities have determined. In the second phase, these entities have been studied and specified precisely based on the KM Roadmapping and the object and data properties have defined. In the third phase, some instances have been added to the presented ontology based on data properties and the ontology has been utilized for KM roadmapping in a case study.

Researchers in the field of scientometrics, as well as scholars of other disciplines, inevitably have to use Persian terms when they are writing in Persian. Since the equivalents are often sporadically invented and chosen, the result would be many- for- one. The purpose of this study was to investigate Persian equivalents in the field of scientometrics.

This descriptive study was carried out, using quantitative content analysis method.

According to the findings, at least one out of almost every six English technical terms in scientometrics has more than one equivalent. Also, in equivalent- finding, the rule of one-to-one matching is not met. Also synonymy in equivalents is frequently observed. The reasons are as follows: the lack of attention to the number of lexical components of the term, using ill-formed structures, using phrasal groups, paying no attention to the lexical category of the components of the technical terms, choosing long terms, using no affixation, lack of attention to the context and genre and neglecting differences and semantic delicacies of words

According to the findings, the number of Persian technical terms in scientometrics is increasing, and as a result, the phenomena of synonymy and polysemy are increasing. By using linguistic and non-linguistic strategies, wordformation should be carried out in accordance with Persian rules.

The aim of this research is to consider the most important criteria of user interface of Digital Libraries providers' services to the blind and visually impaired from standpoint Blind digital librarians.

A researcher-constructed questionnaire was used for the survey. It was administered to Blind digital librarians currently employed by the blind digital libraries in Iran.

Results of the study showed that ''different formats of library resources" and "Ability of organizing the screen" in sequence gained the highest and lowest score. Although the difference among of criteria's were low and according to the Delphi panel using them in the design of digital Libraries providers' services to the visually impaired user interface offered. It was hope that the results of this study could present needed features and their importance in designing in digital Libraries providers' services to the blind and visually impaired user interface. On the other hand, it could be used as a tool for the determination of capabilities of digital Libraries providers' services to the visually impaired user interface from librarians, experts and their user's opinion.

The purpose of the present study was to identify the individual factors and leadership style on scholarly communication of faculty members of Iranian universities

The present research study was a Follow-up Explanations Model. The statistical population included faculty members of various universities located in provinces of Iran. According to Krejcie and Morgan Table (1970) and based on stratified sampling 378 faculty members were selected as the participants. For the qualitative method of research, 16 faculty member holding Ph.D. who were chosen based on purposeful sampling participated in the study. Data analysis was based on a semi standardized interview. To analysis the data content analysis were carried out using deductive.

Research findings showed that, variables of personality features, stylistic factors, organizational conflict, and leadership style can meaningfully define the variance of scholarly communication. The result of the qualitative and quantitative output of approval subcategories and factors affecting scholarly communication contained 4 subplot and conception was 33.

Overall, the findings indicated the diriect effect of most of the variables related to the content factors on the scholarly communication.