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Information is a fluid concept, so that any time we want to investigate it are multiple and multifaceted. This led to assume that their information is a diversity and multiplicity. Because of the close interdependence between different variables and there is another use of the information is not merely a model for efficient and successful analysis of information and a series of positions to be more actively into the analysis. Here role of transdisciplinary is meant to benefit from the multiplicity of this approach, the approach suggests that the desire to create unity and models to explain the causes and implications of the recognition of multiple causes. Thus, the new methods and models to describe and explain the problem and will be criticism and analysis. It is evident that only through practical activities in the field of information can not reach a comprehensive understanding of the field. To answer the basic questions facing the field of information and information science is the understanding of information science is necessary but not sufficient, in comparison, a solid foundation of information science that is rooted in the traditions of extensive research for each active librarian and informationist update access to the collective results of many other minds, and the overall experience provides a more general degree. Although, the extent of information science with the information functions, but this does not function, the methodical and systematic research on the information - and other related issues - that makes up the research in the field of Information science. From this, it is intended to study the role of transdisciplinary thinking in information science.

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between spiritual intelligence and demographic characteristics of librarians (such as gender, education level, age, job experience, marital status and field of study) in Isfahan governmental university librarians. The research method was survey and the data gathering tool was King's spiritual intelligence questionnaire. The population was 132 governmental university libraries in Isfahan, 115 of them (87/12 %) responded to the questionnaire. The results showed that spiritual intelligence of librarians is high with the mean value of 81/6 (the highest mean could be 96 in the test). There was no relationship between demographic characteristics (ل, education level, age, job experience and marital status) with the spiritual intelligence. The relationship between field of study and spiritual intelligence was significant As the results showed no significant relationship between spiritual intelligence and demographic characteristics of the librarians, it seems that, spiritual intelligence have relation whit other factors rather than demographic characteristics. Further analysis is needed to discover the factors related to spiritual intelligence such as cultural and social factors.

This research has investigated consequences of the policy of appointing academic staff as part-time university library directors and managers in Iranian universities. Semi-Structured interviews were conducted with 17 directors and managers of university libraries in Isfahan, Tehran and Mashhad. Analysis followed the techniques of continual comparison proposed in the Grounded Theory methodology using open, axial, and selective coding. The data indicate that part-time library directors and managers, LIS professionals or otherwise, lack interest in their managerial role. Because of carrying out responsibilities of full-time academics simultaneously, they face time limitation and conflict in roles assigned. They prefer educational and research roles. Lack of expertise in library work, intensifies lack of interest in the role among non LIS academics holding library directorship responsibility. Conversely, fulltime LIS professional managers identified themselves with their managerial role and were found to be focused on their responsibilities. Originality: A similar research was not found in Iranian LIS literature. Implementation: Findings are expected lead to correction in the policy of selecting managers of university library in Iran.

This research aims at investigating the amount of the application of servant leadership component in the libraries of Isfahan state universities. The research method is descriptive survey study and the study population consists of managers and librarians of Isfahan state universities in 2009-2010.The sample was estimated 111 by using Cochran's formula. The random stratified sampling method was used and to achieve the research objectives a researcher-made questionnaire was used. The face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experienced professors and using Cronbach’s Alpha the reliability of the questionnaire was estimated 0.87 percent for the existing situation and 0.81 for the ideal situation. The findings showed that the amount of application of the servant leadership components in the existing situation were lower than average and in the ideal situation were higher than average. The findings in demographic characteristics, course of study showed that those who had librarianship degree assessed the amount of application of the servant leadership components higher than staff that didnt have librarianship degree. The findings in demographic characteristics, course of study showed that those who had librarianship degree assessed the amount of application of the servant leadership components higher than staff that didnt have librarianship degree. In demographic characteristics, place of work in both situations the differences were significant and the staff of Isfahan industrial university assessed the amount of existence of this component less and its utility more than the staff of other universities and in other demographic characteristics no different significance was seen

Users’ view toward the bibliographic family and related works is a matter of importance yet it is not well treated among different FRBRizing studies. Knowing the users’ terminology and the information elements in a bibliographic record they consume, can be of help in implementing FRBR in OPACs. This paper aims at studying users’ views toward the bibliographic family of the Epic of Kings (Shahnameh) by Ferdowsi as a case. Through this study, based on a mixed method, 40 bibliographic cards were distributed among 30 highly specialized researchers in the field and they sorted the card out in to 11 groups. Based on the names they attributed to each group, 11 hierarchical structures were accumulated and a bibliographic tree was formed based on the users’ view towards the bibliographic family and the FRBR model.

The purpose of the research is to analyze the usability of Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard for describing and organizing the content objects of the new information environment. The present research is a conceptual research having been done based on an analytical-critical approach. Meanwhile, introducing the characteristics of new media and environment and its influence on the knowledge organization process, and analyzing internal and external relationships among the quadruple levels of content objects presented in RDA, RDA's capabilities has been evaluated to respond to the new environment's features. The findings show "Resource Description and Access (RDA)" is undesirable for describing the digital content objects, because of its deficiencies including the use of traditional tools and approaches as a basis for standard extension, lack of suitable coordination with metadata standards, and lack of enough attention to the content object's characteristics available on the new environment, The defect of RDA have necessitated a revision of bibliographic relationships and functions included by the standard. finally, the researcher has suggested two new bibliographic relationships "part/part" and "shared characteristics", and three new functions "housekeeping", "organizing", and "expansion" as the appropriate solutions for more adaptability of RDA to the new information environment.

the purpose of this research is to determine the compatibility of Resource Description and Access (RDA) rules related recordings of attributes of first and second groups of FRBR with Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) the research population includes primary and secondary parts, and attributes of the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) on the one hand; and Resource Description and Access rules related recording of attributes of first and second groups of FRBR on the other hand. The research used comparative method to gather needed data on both aspects of the study, to check how are compatible these two aspects, and to produce eXtensible Markup Language (XML) tags for providing descriptive information of different resources according to the Resource Description and Access (RDA). in general, 440 rules were identified and analyzed from the current RDA chapters 2-11. 440 MODS–oriented tags were compatible with RDA rules. The present research shows that all of the RDA rules related recording of attributes of first and second groups of FRBR are compatible with MODS and equivalents could be found in MODS for information extracted from the RDA rules. To make compatible RDA rules with MODS, more than one primary part should be used in some of the rules; especially those that are usually manipulated for providing access points to different entities. out of the 20 primary parts of MODS, 16 were used in this research. These 16 parts were selected according to the first and second entity groups in FRBR. Findings indicated that there is a full compatibility between RDA rules and MODS; and one would either be able to describe the information of a given resource in RDA or MODS. Findings are in fact a mixture of primary and secondary parts, specifications and values of RDA compatibilized with MODS. They would also be able to act as a model for describing Persian resources.. Finally, the research shows examples of Persian records randomly retrieved from the national bibliography which have been described according to the recommended tags.

The aim of the current research is to compare the capabilities of a thesaurus and an ontology for retrieval of concepts. The research also develops the methodology of ontology construction by implementing domain analysis methodology. The present work by applying the domain analysis approach developed a prototype ontology named ASFAOnt in the domain of Indexing by reengineering a current thesaurus in Persian language named ASFA. The ontology was evaluated by a retrieval test in which the usability and the performance of the ontology were investigated. Usability and performance were compared with a baseline, a classic-type thesaurus with the conventional thesaurus structure, ASFA thesaurus. The evaluation was carried out as a controlled experiment in which a group of information searchers, LIS master students, used the thesaurus and ontology to extract three keywords according to their in mind search queries. The evaluative study was followed by a qualitative analysis of the nature of concepts, individual relationships and the textual and visual display so as to provide an understanding of and insight into the quality of the ontology as well as to gather ideas for further development. In order to gather more validated data on users’ performance and satisfaction, thinking aloud technique was used. Also the experimental retrieval test in the usability test was followed by a questionnaire survey, constructed on the basis of ONTOMETRIC approach. The result of the study indicates that ontology structure is useful and provides valuable inspiration for the user. Providing enriched conceptual content and specific relationships have stimulated users to do more interaction with the ontology and to achieve more satisfaction with the applicability and potential of the ontology in comparison with the thesaurus in the traditional structure.

The aim of the present research is generally to evaluate the use of the creativity dimensions and components in Iran National Library website from its users’ point of view. We used survey method. Research population was composed of 19665 users and 173 librarians of the National Library & Archives of Iran (NLAI). The data collecting tool was a questionnaire which was designed by the researcher based on the various research resources in the website creativity area. In this questionnaire, 23 components of the website creativity have been classified under 8 general dimensions (Aesthetics, Originality, Importance, Interactivity, Changeability, Function, Effectiveness, and Personalization). Each of these components has been divided into sub-components. The questionnaires were distributed among the respondents (283 questionnaires). Results showed that, acquiring 3.66 average score (52%), the NLAI website was in an intermediate position in terms of the use of the creativity dimensions and components. Of the investigated dimensions, “Originality” with 49%, and “Changeability” with 54% were in an intermediate position and “Function” with 61% was in a good position. As to the research hypotheses, a significant difference (at alpha= 0.05) was found between the evaluation scores of use of the creativity dimensions and components and the desired status, between different age groups, and between different educational levels. There were no significant differences between the evaluation scores of the NLAI’s members and staff.

Web sites are considered as an important tool on the internet and it has an important role in the utilization of students from the internet. In this study, we tried to evaluate Iranian schools web sites. Research population consists of 122 school websites. We used a check list for evaluation of school websites. We found that all aspects of Iranian school websites (authorship / sponsorship, design, contents, and information organization) are in low position. Result of Pearson test showed that there is a significant relationship between all aspects, except information organization and design aspects. On the other hand, it was also considerable that in general, non-profit school web sites were better than governmental school web sites. Results showed that website design for schools should be based on cognitive development, physical, social and emotional growth of students and it is necessary to ask children, librarian, computer specialists, children psychologists, and the other specialist to improve the Iranian school websites situation.

Information literacy (IL) skills are basic skills in knowledge based environment. The main aim of educating IL skills is preparing lifelong learners. According to the idea of IL scientists, successful IL programs must have two characteristics: must be based on standard criteria; and must be closely related to the information needs of students. Such programs are called IL in context programs. While there have been wide variety of such programs and the related research in Western countries, it has not been widely considered in Iran. The main aim of this research is to investigate the impact of IL in context workshops on general understanding of participants towards IL concepts and their skills in searching relevant information sources and using the result in enhancing research process. An experimental and action research with qualitative approach has been conducted. 20 PG students in education and psychology (group one) and Library and Information science (group 2) have been participated in this research. Two open ended questionnaires, observation and the analysis of assignments were used for collecting data. The first questionnaire focused on demographic information of participants and the subject area of their research. The second one was based on ACRL standards and used for pre and post test. The content of the workshops, which were organized for each group separately, and the assignments based on the subjects interests of the participants. They worked on their own research topics during the workshops. The result reveals that while participants in the first group have not clear understanding of IL concepts, both groups provide suitable responses to the questions in post test. In pre test, both groups pointed to some problems, such as lack of ability to find suitable keywords, to confront with a large number of retrievals, and lack of ability in using them. The result of post test showed that they were satisfied with workshops and they learned how to limit their subject, how to search and to use the result in research process.

The main purpose of this research is to compare the Content quality of two citation databases: Scopus and Web of Science. In order to reaching this goal, first of all, final criteria of the content quality evaluation of Scopus & WoS was compiled and then according to this criteria and regarding to the seven general indicators (including: "aim, content & scope", "journal scientific reliability", "author's reputation", "updating, constancy and stability", "citation quality", "management" and "ease of accessibility, retrieval & usage") the quality of the journal in two subject fields ("art, human and social sciences" & "medical, engineering, agricultural and basic sciences") of two citation databases was surveyed and compared. Results of this research show that in subject field of "art, human and social sciences" in two indicators of "author's reputation" and "management", the quality of journals in WoS is more than Scopus, but in the next five indicators the quality of the journals in Scopus & WoS are the same. In the other hand, in the subject field of "medical, engineering, agricultural and basic sciences", in three indicators of "journal scientific reliability", "author's reputation" and "management", the quality of journals in WoS is more than Scopus, but in the indicators of "updating, constancy and stability" and "ease of accessibility, retrieval & usage", the quality of journals in Scopus is more than WoS. Though, in two indicators of "aim, content & scope" and "citation quality" the quality of the journals indexed in Scopus & WoS are the same.