نشریه تحقیقات اطلاع رسانی و کتابخانه های عمومی
پیاپی 108 (بهار 1401)

Public libraries, like other organizations involved in the spread of coronary anxiety disorder, have taken different approaches to their activities. One of the most important challenges is job adjustment and change management during the corona outbreak. This study investigated the effect of corona anxiety on change management and the mediating role of work volition in public libraries.

The type of research is descriptive based on the applied purpose and in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of this study includes all employees of public libraries in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in 1400 (160 people). Using simple random sampling method, 115 people were selected as the statistical sample of the study. A combined questionnaire including corona anxiety assessment (Alipour, Ghadami, Alipour, Abdollahzadeh, 2020), job adjustment (Davis and LaFquist, 2011) and change management (Armenakis et al., 2007) were used to collect data. In this study, with the help of confirmatory factor analysis and using the partial least squares technique, the effect of corona anxiety on work volition and change management among public library staff has been investigated. The software used to analyze the data are SPS and SmartPLS.

The findings of this study show that coronary anxiety (mental and physical anxiety) can have a negative effect on employee adjustment and change management. But one of the important points that was obtained in testing research hypotheses is the effect of work volition on change management. Considering that in the last two years, the organizational space has faced a major challenge called the corona outbreak; The results show that in such situations, improving the work volition of employees can be a good option to reduce the negative effects of corona anxiety.

The effect of anxiety caused by coronavirus outbreak on job adjustment and change management in public libraries of Fars province has been studied for the first time and is innovative in this regard.

Libraries as one of the most important scientific, educational, research, social and cultural centers have an effective role in the development of information, awareness and human knowledge that the realization of their goals requires specialized and experienced managers to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of libraries. Is. But the goals of libraries will not be possible without the appointment of capable managers to manage them efficiently. Thus the purpose of this study is to identify and introduce the components affecting the appointment of library managers based on previous research in this field.

This research is an applied that has been done by descriptive method and documentary approach and content analysis. The statistical population of this research includes the study and content analysis of 62 articles, 7 books and 1 dissertation published in the field of library management. The data collection tool in this research is taking notes from published sources and the data analysis tool is Excel software.

The findings showed that the effective components for the appointment of library managers include job / personal components such as knowledge and professional information (work experience, years of service, completed training courses, related degree , Ability to upgrade science and administration and expertise), Management skills (communication skills, decision-making and accountability, crisis management, teamwork, conflict management, delegation, time management, resource and capital management, creativity and innovation, identification and problem analysis, understanding of individual differences, the spirit of encouraging staff, foresight, commitment and justice and fairness) Personality traits (responsibility, self-confidence, tolerance, honesty and integrity, participatory spirit, well-groomed and orderly , Age, flexibility and individual courage), attitude and insight (religious attitude, respect for subordinates and precedence over relationship), public and professional reputation (informal communication, professional reputation, gaining employee trust, gaining superiors' trust and client's trust ); Organizational / internal factors (structural dimension (organizational complexity, organizational formality, organizational centralization level and budget system) and content dimension (organizational size, organizational culture, understanding of organizational goals and strategy, organizational technology and leadership style of senior organizational managers) and environmental factors / External (general environment (social / cultural, geographical, economic, technological, political / legal factors) and specialized environment (organizational competitors, client and legal factors).

The appointment of library managers plays a very important role in their growth and prosperity. This article is one of the first descriptive and analytical studies in the field of library management that focuses on identifying and categorizing the effective components in the appointment of library managers and can lead to the identification and employment of talented and capable managers in libraries and increase efficiency and the effectiveness of libraries and information centers. These components can also be a tool for proper policy-making in the hands of senior managers to appoint library managers, and on the other hand can be a basis for further and more detailed research in the field of managerial, personality, technical and social dimensions. Managers of libraries and information services.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the administrative structure of the board of trustees of the United States of America Public Libraries in order to provide a model for use in public library associations of Iran.

The present study is an applied research and is a quantitative and qualitative content analysis in term of metodology. To answer research questions about US public libraries, the laws and guideline of the board of trustees of the United States of America Public Libraries were used. www.publiclibraries.com, and www.ala.org websites, and search engines and social networks were used to identify the libraries under study and the persons, authorities and structures of each library.

The findings show that US public library board of trustee's members, focus more on financial, administrative, human, and policy issues; Topics related to community relations, formal and legal social assemblies, participation, coordination and cooperation between boards, associations and assemblies, educational and workshop topics, monitoring contracts, etc. have also recently been added to this type of tasks; In the composition of their members, there is a variety of duties and responsibilities in different geographical areas; Their duties and powers are more detailed and realistic and represent the local face more vividly; There is no defined procedure for appointing or electing their board of trustees, and the procedure for appointing board members of public libraries in each state is almost different from other states; Most of their members are real members; Most of their members work in non-profit organizations; Most of their members are women; The average age of their members was 47 years.

Finally, it was suggested that the administrative structure of public libraries in Iran be changed based on the administrative structure of public libraries in other countries in such a way that they have a balanced mix of local and state support, and Iran Public Libraries Associations emphasize more on Demographic, gender, age, occupation of their members. Also, new duties and functions should be defined for Iranian public library associations and their powers should be increased. Finally, it is predicted that by taking advantage of the experiences of other countries and consequently increasing the duties and powers of Iranian public library associations, the local aspect of Iranian public libraries will be strengthened and the decision-making process will be accelerated.

This study aimed to analyze the role of public libraries in the development of the local economy from the perspective of librarians working in public libraries of Kermanshah province in the current and desirable situation of public libraries. This study extracts the activities that the public library can do in the development of the local economy in the form of information and information services, educational and research, consulting and reference, and analyzes the level of service provision in both available and desirable modes.

The use of a researcher-made questionnaire has been investigated. The construct and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts, and its reliability was calculated through Cronbach's alpha at 0.955 and 0.935 at optimum conditions. This is a survey study. The statistical population of the study was 194 librarians of Kermanshah Public Libraries. The Cochran formula was used to determine the sample size, which yielded a sample size of 126 individuals. The SPSS software was used to measure the reliability of the questionnaire, implementing descriptive statistics.

Findings showed that in the current situation, ancillary services with a mean of 3.05%, information and information services with a mean of 2.59%, educational and research services with a mean of 2.32, at a relatively desirable level, and consulting and reference services in the situation with a mean of 0.04 are at an undesirable level. On the other hand, ancillary services with an average of 2.86%, educational and research services with a mean of 2.54%, information and information services with a mean of 2.34, and consulting and reference services with a mean of 2.26 are at a desirable level, respectively. It can be concluded that the level of public library services (information, information, education, research, and auxiliary services) is at a relatively desirable level and that consulting and reference services are at a poor level. On the other hand, in terms of the desirable level of service provision (information services, educational and research, information consulting and reference, and ancillary services) are at a desirable and relatively desirable level. The ranking of services showed that in the current conditions, the ancillary services, information services, educational and research, consulting, and reference services are ranked first to fourth, respectively. The ancillary services, education and research, information and information, and consulting and reference are ranked in the favorable conditions first to fourth, respectively. Therefore, in comparison to each of the services in the current and favorable conditions, in all cases, the services were different.

The present study is one of the few national investigations that analyzes the role of public libraries in the development of the local economy and examines the views of librarians and decision-makers of these services who deal with the problems and issues in providing them in libraries. With the results of this study, the managers of Iranian public libraries can make the necessary plans to play one of the important roles of public libraries in Iran, which is the development of local and indigenous economy

In this study, we have tried to identify the factors affecting the non-use of women in rural libraries from the perspective of non-user women, i.e. women who are not members of libraries and are not library users. Library factors, Internet access, accessibility, and service fit to needs are among the items that in most studies have shown the greatest impact on people using libraries. However, due to the fact that less research has examined the problems and challenges facing women in accessing information resources and referring them to libraries, this study was conducted with the main purpose of examining this important issue.

This research has been done with a qualitative approach and using content analysis method. The statistical population of the study consists of non-user women in 8 rural libraries in Kermanshah. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data and Lincoln and Guba (1985) evaluation method was used to ensure the validity and reliability of the study. In order to achieve and validate the research tool, the research process was performed by two experts and two coders were used to codify several interview samples, to ensure the uniformity of the coders' point of view and to write notes during the research in Excel sheets. By applying this process, the reliability of the research data was significantly increased. The sampling method of the research was snowball and the transcript of the interviews was analyzed by three methods quantitative, structural, and interpretive, and in this regard, the software MAXQDA 2018 was used.

After extracting the main sentences from the text of the interviews and placing them in a file, first conceptualization was done and then according to the extracted concepts, the appropriate category with each concept was selected. In the coding process, each phrase was marked as a corresponding code according to its meaning, concept, and implication under a specific heading, and was classified in the MAXQDA software environment. In the next step, after removing some of the codes that had thematic overlap, four main dimensions including environmental, personal, social and cultural, and special factors were identified and 36 conceptual codes were extracted in this field. Finally, due to the frequency of repetitive concepts, it was found that "special factors" had the greatest impact on women not going to rural libraries and "environmental factors" showed the least role in this regard.

This study has looked at the issue of women's access to information resources and libraries with a different perspective and has focused on non-user women. Obviously, attracting the attention and membership of non-user women to rural libraries can lead to the promotion of knowledge and information of this group and, consequently, a direct impact on the family center and improve the position of the library in the minds of society. Therefore, rural libraries should pay more attention to this important issue and pave the way for providing services to this group.

The aim of this study was to assess the multiple relationships between the dimensions of social status of librarians and the structural, cognitive, communication dimensions of social capital in public libraries in Khuzestan.

The present study has been conducted in terms of applied purpose and in terms of quantitative method and Descriptive-correlation method. The statistical population of the study included all librarians of public libraries in Khuzestan province with 390 people who were selected using Cochran's formula of 194 people. To collect data in this study, the social status questionnaire (Najafpour Moghadam and Mohammadi, 1400) and Nahapit and Goshal (1998) social capital questionnaire were used. Descriptive and inferential tests were used to analyze the data using SPSS software version 26.

The research findings showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the five dimensions of social status and the three dimensions of social capital. Also, there is a significant difference between librarians' views on social status and its dimensions in the interaction of degree and history. Examination of the sub-components also shows that there is a significant difference in the structural dimension and librarians with different degrees have different views on the structural dimension.

This study has studied the social status and social capital of librarians from the perspective of Khuzestan indigenous culture and in terms of demographic variables in the relationship between social status and social capital of librarians. Data has innovation.