نشریه مطالعات کتابداری و سازماندهی اطلاعات
سال سی و سوم شماره 3 (پیاپی 131، پاییز 1401)

The purpose of the study has been to investigate the extent that information organization (IO) in a number of children's and primary schools libraries merits the quality characteristics suggested by the library professional community schools in Tehran. 

Systematic literature review based on the PRISMA framework and focus group interviews were carried out to explore what criteria and standards are suggested for IO in children’s libraries. Data analysis at this stage was done through thematic analysis. Based on findings, a checklist was designed to find out to what extent such considerations were actually observed by librarians in libraries investigated. Data gathered by checklist was analysed by descriptive and inferential statistics.

Characteristics identified included themes and components affecting information organization process in three sections: descriptive cataloguing, analytical cataloguing, and classification. In the descriptive cataloguing section, in connection with the mains category of standard cataloguing, cataloguing according to the standards and cataloguing rules and in the category of notes, inserting abstracts and table of contents and including the age group or level of education. In the analytical cataloguing section, the focus was on the function and mission of IO; with regard to user, the focus was on the needs, interests and expressive characteristics of users in different age groups and educational levels; in the category of information sources, identifying topics and resource-based activities through communication with experts, sites, groups and organizations related to children's literature, such as groups to promote reading and attention to the table of contents and images; and in the category of methods and tools for assigning topics and standards and as specific and practical keywords as possible (via Persian Subject Headings, Subject Headings for Children, thesaurus and social labelling), creating an ontology and establishing semantic relationships between subjects, assigning more than three topics and keywords to each resource, inserting the format of the work, were suggested as a subdivision into topics as much as possible and the creation of an appropriate reference system for the uniformity of topics and keywords. With regard to classification, Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and with regard to supplementary methods, the separation of resources based on thematic classification and separation of resources according to age group or an educational level were suggested. In the second part of the research, findings showed that more than half of the school libraries have used ISO through the National Library bibliography database. In the notes section, most librarians have listed the age group appropriate for the book. The topics in the analytical cataloguing section are devoted to items such as age group, book images, and format, CIP topics, and rarely keywords are allocated through indexing and content analysis of the book. Librarians have paid less attention to other influential components such as school functions and duties, students' interests, and so on. In the category of classification, libraries have mostly used DDC and general topics along with other symbols and methods.

Insufficient attention has been paid to storing, representing, and retrieving children's information resources based on the themes and components of the identified characteristics.

The outbreak of Covid-19 virus caused long-term closure of university libraries and increasd telework by librarians. This research has aimed to explore the impact of telework on their job satisfaction interms of communication, job promotion, awards, salary and benefits, supervision, job conditions, peerformance, coworkers, and desire to work remotely.

Views of librarians of three public universities in the Isfahan metropolitan area, namely Isfahan Medical Sciences University, Isfahan University of Technology, the University of Isfahan were sought. Out of the 118 staff  members of the three universities, 90 completed a researcher-made questionnaire based on the scale of Judge and Bono (2000). For analysis, statistical methods such as Pearson correlation, and multiple linear regression tests were used by SPSS 22 software.

Significant relationship was found between teleworking and job satisfaction (p<0.05). All components of job satisfaction were correlated with teleworking. The result of the multiple linear regression test showed that among the components of job satisfaction, only the "leadership component" can predict the teleworking (r<0.518).

Telework can lead to the improvement of services to users. Leadership component demonstrated greatest relationship with teleworking. Considering the importance the component in predicting telework, this research can help to make useful changes in organizations, especially in the management style of university libraries.

The level of desired and objective experiences of students during the collaborative information seeking is explored.

The statistical population in this survey research included all graduate students of Shiraz University in 2020. The sample consisted of 302 students from different faculties, selected according to the Morgan table. Data gatherin too was a researcher-made questionnaire designed by reviewing the literature and  extracting relevant items. extracted.  To assess the face and the content validity of the questionnaire.  The draft of the questionnaire was sent to seven LIS experts, and finalized according to their recommendations. The reliability of the instrument attained Cronbach's alpha coefficient with a value of 0.91.

The sample t-test and comparison of means showed that the average of collaborative information seeking behavior in the study is more than the expected average (70%). So it can be said that the tendency of postgraduate students towards collaborative information seeking is high. Also, the results on the subjects' experiences showed that there was no significant difference between the observed and expected frequencies "experience of searching information on the web separately and then discussing with a group about the results" and "Experience searching the web separately with a separate computer or mobile phone". This means that students who had group web search experience (71.2%) as well as students with collaborative information seeking experience in homework and projects (74.2%) were more than those without such experience. Also, the number of students whose group work lasted between one week to one month (35.4%) and students who needed different sources of information (82.8) was higher. On the other hand, significantly more students experience searching the web as a group in a common place, in different places, communicating through online chat or telephone conversation. Those communicate with a shared computer or mobile phone and use collaborative information software less than those who had never experienced this type of search.

The results showed that the tendency for collaborative information seeking is high. Paying attention to this segment of the scientific community can lead to more knowledge of collaborative information seeking experience. Also, recognizing the tendency of this group to participate in collaborative information seeking behavior can help the policy makers of the higher education system to plan, considering solving possible problems such as little use of students 'collaborative search tools and the existence of the necessary platforms for students' collaborative work in educational and research center and strengthen these behaviors.

Information behavior includes intentional and unintentional behaviors. One of the unintentional information behaviors is the serendipitous acquisition of information. This type of behavior, which complements the inquiry, has an important role in the learning behaviors and everyday information acquisition by researchers. The occurrence of this type of behavior is influenced by the factors that the present study was conducted to identify.

 This systematic review employs the eight-step process of the Okoli review method. The research population includes English articles indexed in the Web of Science (WOS), Scopus, and Persian articles indexed in the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC), Scientific Information Database (SID), MagIran, Normagz, and Ensani. After applying the search strategy, the retrieved articles were imported to the EndNote 20 software and duplicate articles were removed. Then, based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 40 related articles were studied in order to identify the factors affecting serendipitous acquisition of information.

Results :

The history of the study of the serendipitous acquisition of information goes back more than three decades. The serendipitous acquisition of information is influenced by internal factors, external factors, and environmental characteristics. Internal factors are influenced by person's psychological and personality characteristics and can be created or managed by the person her/himself. Internal factors include information need, topical knowledge, Sagacity, curiosity, sensitivity, conscientiousness, extroversion, emotions, self-confidence, information literacy, enjoyment of the search process, and education. External factors such as time, status, and place are separate from psychological and personality characteristics of the person and can facilitate serendipity. Some environmental characteristics enables exploration and discovery, ease of access, connectivity, stimulus-richness, enables connections, trigger rich, highlights triggers, variety, contrasts, incompleteness, multi-reachability, and slowability cultivate serendipity. Despite the importance of serendipity in information seeking, it has not attracted the attention of Iranian researchers

Recent advances in information technology and the emergence of Web2 have created new horizons in the ways of obtaining information and have caused an increase in unintentional acquisition of information. Therefore, the way that such behavior occurs, and its effects and results should be investigated. Recognition and control of factors affecting successful acquisition of information could help the search process.

According to previous studies, Iranian publishers generally do not comply with national legal deposit laws and regulations due to the shortcomings in such laws and regulations. The purpose of this research is to explore the strengths and weaknesses of the mentioned laws and make some recommendation for improvements.

20 Iranian legal deposit documents issued between 1905 and 2016 were reviewed using qualitative content analysis method. They were categorized and coded based on IFLA “Legal Deposit Framework” in MAXQDA software. To ensure the validity of the analysis two faculty members and two students aware of the subject reviewed and endorsed the codes. To rate reliability, the percentage of agreement was calculated.

Legal deposit rules and procedures in Iran are spelled out in several laws, regulations, ratified bills, and circulars. However, the term “legal deposit” has appeared only in one document while “Comprehensiveness” and “depository” exist in all the documents reviewed. The elements of “origin of the publication”, “depositor”, and “number of copies” to deposit are mentioned in 19. National Library and Archives of Iran is the depository in 13, and 2 copies of each publication as the minimum number to be deposited is mentioned in 16. The element “time of deposit” has appeared by the words like “immediately” or “after binding” in 9 documents. That leaves the actual time of deposit ambiguous. Free deposit has been mentioned in only 4 documents. Music scores, Iconographic material, online publication, and audio-visual material are not mentioned at all. Also, depositing appropriate accompanying material of online and offline electronic publication (e.g., software) is not addressed in the document relating deposit of electronic publications. No penalty for non-compliance is predicted in 19 documents studied.

The mere existence of legal documents for the deposit of publications shows that cultural custodians and librarians have been aware of the importance of collecting national publications. Now, there is a need to have a law for online publications too. Also, according to “Legal Deposit Framework” of IFLA, a law for legal deposit should include a penalty structure for non-compliance; something which is missed in the 19 documents reviewed. In addition, none have addressed access and copy right condition for deposited material. Since the main goal of legal deposit is to preserve national and cultural heritage of the nation and make them accessible now and in the future, in addition to ascertain the place of preservation and protective facilities and security, the law must address the issue of making copy from the deposited materials.

Management information system is an important tool in the management of the organization and has been used mainly to automate the performance of codified management activities And ultimate goal of creating and implementing this system is to collect, refine, analyze, process, summarize and transmit the past and present information of the organization and related phenomena.This system seeks to provide reliable, complete, accessible and understandable information to users. Management information system is one of the most important achievements in the field of administrative work to improve organizational performance in organizations.The aim of this study was to identify and explain the factors affecting the implementation of management information system in the library, museum and document center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

This research is a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods.The type of research is qualitative in the first stage in terms of exploratory purpose and quantitative in the second stage with explanatory purpose.In the qualitative section, to identify the factors affecting the management information system, the findings of internal and external research analysis, as well as interviews with experts and Delphi technique have been used And the data collection tool in the quantitative part of the research is a researcher-made questionnaire taken from the qualitative stage of the research. The statistical population of the qualitative part of the research consists of professors of information science and knowledge departments and managers with the history of library, museum and document center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly. 16 experts were selected by snowball sampling method. The statistical population in a small stage includes all librarians, administrators and officials of the library, museum and documentation center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of 215 people. Due to the limited population, a census was conducted. Research data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling with Smart -PLS software.

According to the results, human, organizational and technical factors have been identified as effective factors on the implementation of management information system. The human factor has three sub-factors: managerial, educational and individual, the organizational factor has four sub-factors: environmental, economic, structural and cultural, and for the technical factor, three factors of network and infrastructure, security and user support have been identified.

Managers should pay attention to human, organizational and technical factors in order to implement MIS. Solutions such as full support of managers for implementation, holding seminars and training workshops, upgrading software systems in accordance with information needs and developments, observing security standards and using various hard tools software is recommended..