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This research aim is surveying and analysis of familiarity and use of faculty members of Azad Islamic university of Fars province with database in related field. Research method is descriptive and means of data gathering is questionnaire. Analysis of data is made by descriptive and with help of SPSS. Result of this research shows that more than 80% of faculty members are familiar with the database of related field. But among familiarity of different educational group the only meaning full difference were between human science and engineering science group that shows that with increasing the average of engineering group it was recognized the engineering group is more familiar with their related database. Also among 11 factors affecting on not using of faculty members, low speed of internet with 85.8% and not having enough time.with 70.8% are among the most important factors. 76.3% of faculty staff participating in classes and workshops are familiar with their database. 52.8% declared that translation and writing of books and essays are cause of their use. 77.7% reference to their related database for full content of essays.

This research has investigated needs of young members of public libraries in Tehran which are sponsored by Iran public library organization, by using survey method. Uderstanding and determination study needs is the main aim of the research. Also tring to to specifying the motive and aim of studyingt between public library young members, and determining important sources and facilities for obtaining information. About 600 of 53251 young members were surveyed as samples in bunched sample method, roportional to the size and volume of each area.Data was collected by questionnaires. The results show that the priorities subjects are: technology and applied sciences with 25.6 percent, art subject with 22.1 percent, history and geography subject with 20.5percent. The results show that the most necessary facilities are: access to Internet and training CDs. Findings show that study needs of young members are not the same and are different.

Considering the importance of public libraries and providing information services in these libraries, active communication between these libraries and use of information network will promote their qualitative and quantitative levels of information services. The present research also by considering this importance, besides examining information infrastructure of the libraries, tries to propose suggestions for development, reinforcement and creation of active and interactive communication between them. This research consists of three parts. The first part deals with theoretical matters and conceptual foundations of network and networking and outlines some points about network objectives and actions, tasks and role of such networks toward sharing resources, pre-requirements of building network and its topology. Second part of the research reviews the current status of the public libraries. In this section, manpower status, collection development and cataloging, facilities, budgets are surveyed. The results indicated that most libraries do not have specialized manpower, appropriate and sufficient collections, facilities and resources. The third part of this research tries to propose suggestions for improvement of libraries’ condition and providing active and interactive communication between them. For this purpose, a design for creating information network for the examined libraries are proposed with the aim of automating library resources and services including cataloging, digitizing important resources, providing access to the internet, sharing databases such as books, periodicals and other information resources required by the library’s users. Considering the possibilities and limitations of the investigated libraries, the plan has mixed topology. In such a way that some of the network activities such as cataloging, classification, acquisition, document delivery services, current awareness, formulating standards and training are performed centrally by network central core and other services such as abstracting and indexing are performed decentrally with cooperation of the investigated libraries

We are living in the information age. In this age, one of the important criteria for determination of the development of societies is Information and Science Production. It means the rate of the works and scientific articles that are indexed in ISI (Institution for Scientific Information) by the researchers of the country. Base on this meaning, each year ISI determines Countrie's Scientific ranking; regarding their Science Productions. Recently, the scientific rating of researchers and authors were determined by their scientific rating on ISI in universities and research centers around the world, so researchers and authors struggle with improving their scientific rating for obtaining job opportunities and getting applied to authoritative universities in the world. This matter has been regarded strongly among Iranian researchers (especially, students and young researchers), so that to get acceptance from journals with high ranking in ISI. This article decides to help these researchers with introducing ISI main criteria of article writing. This article has been written for authors who (from all fields) know writing basically but want to write in a level that it would be indexed by ISI and help them to get a high position by citing to their articles. So this article is arranged by the article components (such as; title, abstract, …) and the writing important points with ISI criteria for each component of article that has been explained in detailed with regarding Iranian authors weak points in writing articles scientifically. Thus among introducing and referring to the criteria of ISI for determining the authors and journals scientific ranking, this criteria for providing each component of article has survived; and was defined by discussion direct relation between them. ISI criteria has been based on powerful and logical reasons and so there are direct and logical relation between the ISI criteria for writing of the article components and Information Literacy. Thus authors notified that one of the important weak points of Iranian researchers in getting acceptance from the high ranking ISI journals for publishing their articles is lack of Information Literacy. so this article suggests that schools, colleges, research centers, and institutions must improve their students or researchers Information Literacy by starting the education courses of Information Literacy and essay writing scientifically based on ISI criteria.

This research is undertaken to measure the manpower and the computer facilities in the international institute of earthquake engineering and seismology (IIEES)in order to set up a digital library. The study uses survey and documentary method. For The interview and observation of the existing situation, a checklist has been used including 48 questions which are completed by the IIEES following personnel: Vice-presidents, directors of research centers, head of the library, and the director of information technology. Results of this study show that with regard to the interest of the directors and the appropriate existing telecommunication facilities, IIEES would be able to establish a digital library if it can: Increase the budget and ways of providing incomes; justify the financial directors with good reasons; encourage the experts to learn the methods of producing digital information and internet; conduct an appropriate organizational chart and allocate tasks and responsibilities to those involved; use the advice and consultation of field and computer experts; purchase from or subscribe with external organizations as well as purchase or subscribe in more electronic resources in order to provide technical facilities which match their emergency needs.

Today, according to main mission of libraries in satisfying the informational needs of users, new methods are taken into account for designing the libraries, among which digital libraries have been allocated a special place in non- virtual environment of internet. By having more developed capacities for managing information, these libraries have been distinguished form other internet informational references. The present research is about Feasibility study of creating digital library Allameh Tabatabaee university show that the managers and librarians of Allameh Tabatabaee University libraries have good knowledge and acquaintance into the digital library, considering digital libraries. The research method is “descriptive survey “. Two questionnaires have been used for collecting information. The questionnaire “A“is for studying facilities. The questionnaire “B“is for studying the telecommunicating possibilities from the technology managers’ points of view. For the date analysis of the research, a software called “SPSS” have been used. The research for digitalizing the library references and into the importance of existence of such libraries; inspite of the existing difficulties in preparing the budget and the loss of hardware and software equipments. Regarding libraries, some steps have considered; for instance: the participation of online Latin magazines and preparation of thesis in the from of CD. according to same experts, communicative on line equipment of our university are in average rate.

The goal of this study is to investigate the problems of the publishers of Tehran province during 1997 to 2007. The methodology is a descriptive survey., and 130 publishers were chosen. Data were collected by interviews and an organized questionnaire distributed among the publishers. The data were analyzed by SPSS and Excel. The findings show that during this period, the most important barriers and problems are as follows: the main problem of the publishers is that their activities are not economically justifiable, 94.6% of the publishers declared that investment in publishing books is not profitable. The most important barriers and problems of book reading in the society are as follows according to the publisher's views: Low culture of the society with 42.3%; lack of reading habits and reading education in the society with 28.5%; dropping the book out of the purchase basket of the family because of the economic conditions with 26.2%. The most important problems of the distributing books are as follows: Lack of information through mass media with 33.8%; lack of information by the publisher with 37.7%; and lack of the book distribution with 28.5%. The circulation status had a different one in the period and the most subject produced are in pure sciences with 21.5%. The hypotheses of the research are tested by chi-square. The first one is confirmed, namely there is a meaningful relation between union formation and the stimulation of being a publisher; the second hypotheses is not confirmed, namely there is no meaningful relation between union support and the membership in the union. the third hypothesis is confirmed, namely there are meaningful relation between union support and investment of the publishers. To improve the publication economics the following suggestions are presented by the publishers: propagation for free book with 34.6%; and fostering book reading culture via TV and the other media with 33.8%; paying subsidy to the publishers by the government with 28.5%.

This research is done with the aim of identifying the information needs of the Management and Planning Organizations (mpo) experts. The research methodology used was "descriptive survey" Data collection was done by questionnaires where due to greenness of statistical societies volume 120 persons from among the mpos managers and experts were chosen through random sampling method and 85 equal questionnaires were distributed and regathered. The data were analysed by using descriptive statistical methods and statistical software. The findings indicate that mpos experts mostly use the official channel to get access to information. They use such information in order to update their expertise by 52 percent or they use it so as to increase their efficiency in their job position by 19.7 percent. The foreing language of the information of the information is English by 95.3 percent. The most important information sources are books (by 42.6 percent) and periodicals (by 33.8 percent). The must outstanding channels to get access to the former are mpos center for scientific documents (by 55.9 percent) and internet and mpos intranet (by 32.1 percent). The mpos experts expressed that the source in the center mentioned meet less than said they use the advice of frequency of the subject matter by a frequency of 86 percent. Mpos experts said the barriers of getting access to information are two fold,i.e first shotage of information sources (by a frequency of 74 percent) and second outdatedness(by a frequency of 41.9 percent). They believed the best solutions to reach the information are as follows: cooperation with international centers,specialized libraries, increase of supplying in the library, updating the specialized information source, the possibility of getting access to previous issues of foreign journals, providing better accessible hardware and software facilities.