نشریه تحقیقات اطلاع رسانی و کتابخانه های عمومی
پیاپی 73 (تابستان 1392)

This research tries toidentifies and introduce and evaluates the librarians ICT skills, attitudes and factors related their ICT skills. Statistical population includes all Yazd public library staffs and a questionnaire used for assessing librarian ICT skills in four main dimensions, including skills in general software, hardware skills, applicative and specialize software skills and communicating and searching skills. The priority of librarians’ skills has been considering by AHP technique and hypothesis testing done by one sample t-test, Pearson correlation and ANOVA tests. According to research findings, applicative and specialize software skills, skills in general software, communicating and searching skills and hardware skills known as the most important public library staff required skills, respectively. Findings reveal the librarians’ positive attitude about ICT and desirable level of hardware skills, between four dimensions of ICT skills. Educational level, knowing English language and librarians’ attitude considering as the affecting factors of the librarian ICT skills. Originality/Value: Evaluating librarian ICT skills and factors relating to them can be set as the base of technical knowledge and professional behavior, improving election, recruitment, education, compensation systems, consultation and performance evaluation and finally representing better services by libraries.

This e goal of this research is to investigates native management in public libraries of the Markazi Province. Management roles are investigated in three main parameters and ten sub- parameters That are based on main roles. The main ones parameters inclulde are: communication, information, and decision making roles in the sub goals research. The research study adopted an method is analylitical survey. Data are were gathered with using a self-developed created questionnaire with the. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated 93% and are validated with content – based method. Statistical society of researchThe study population includeds all the librarians of Markazi state public librarians., 110 librarians person formed the sample of the study using Morgan – table, of which answerd and 106 librarians completed the questionnaires were returned the sample was chosen by Morgan – table. The data was analysed SPSS software was used, in two levels of descriptive and on and sStatistical inferential like,(i.e.g frequency, frequency percentage and variance), using SPSS software were used. The result s showedrevead, that the communication and information roles are not practiced by the public librarians in this study. Findings showed that about that communication roles “aAttending in associates ‘relatives’ death funeral" ceremonies “has the highest averagewith mean of (3./59), and “holding other ceremonies for associates ‘relatives’ and their families " with “has the lowest average Mean of(1./86) received respectively the highest and lowest Mean in the communication roles. This us, we can sayimplies that from the librarian view point, communication roles are not used practiced by in the targetthe public librarians. In the information roles,, “evaluating Assessment the sent information" with the Mean of “with the average of 3./05 is the highest and “iIntroducing the native culture to customers” with the Mean of. )With the average of 2./24 received the highest and lowest Means respectively(is the lowest among information role parameters, like communication roles, information roles are not used and applied in the target libraries, from the librarians point of view. In the case of decision making role parameter, “negotiations ended in with the benefit of the library” with the Mean of (with the average of 3./11) and “praising awarding local issues suggestions given on the local issues with the Mean of”(with the average of 2 received the highest and lowest Mean respectively). Originality/Value: There is a lack of attention towardN native management is an area which has received little attention in the LIS research. This study introduces this area in libraries.

Thise main objective of this article is to presents results from a survey on the f users’ interfaces environment of Persian journals databases from the viewpoints of Iranian public librarians. Adopting a survey approach, this study This is a survey research which evaluates examines the views and experience of public librarians about attitudes of the subjects of study towards about the user interface environment of Persian journals databases, taking into account five dimensions and 58 criteria. Librarians believed thatFindings reveal that the user interface environment of Persian journal databases with numerical mean equal to 180.8 was at the satisfactory level. It appeared that the dimensions of public information (mean:43.9), searching (mean: 81.3), retrieval (mean: 33.1), were at satisfactory level, and demonstration (mean: 16.2), user- friendliness (mean: 7.13) were at unsatisfactory level. In addition, the findings showed that the Users’ interfaces environment of Persian journal databases with numerical mean equal to 180.8 was at the satisfactory level. Originality/Value: This study can with indicating toIlluminating the strengths and weaknesses of the environment of users’ interfaces environment of Persian journals databases, this study help their journal database producers in designing better interface environments for users’ interfaces. It, helps institutions to selecting the best databases that best meet which match with the needs of their patrons. In addition, Iit also will helps users having experiencing easy and fast access to their required information through via a better users’ interface.

Tthis e present study identifies aims at identification of the most important internal factors of strengths and Weaknesses, as well as the external factors of opportunities and threats in regards with privatization of the public libraries, and their readiness for whether these libraries are capable of privatization. the factors and variables resulted from a literature review and, as well as several interviews with some a group of experts in the field of library and information science. The, and the researcher's observations were used in to analyzethe analysis of the internal and external SWOT factors in regards with privatization in public libraries. Findings show that the public libraries under the study are quite ready for privatization both internally, and externally, provided that they take advantage of opportunities they have. The the weighted sum of the strengths and weaknesses is 3.38, and the weighted sum of opportunities and threats is 3.47, both of which are greater than the cut point 2.50.meaning that all in all, public libraries under study are strong enough internally, and are capable of overcoming the external threats, provided they take the advantage of opportunities. Originality/Value: this is seeminglyseems to be the first attempt in SWOT analysis of public libraries in regards with privatization of these libraries.

This study e purpose of this research is to studyilluminates some lights on dissemination of public science communication dissemination of science magazines as a possible contributive factor to the that might be responsible for some of the structural changes in the public science communication of Science in Iranian society The purpose of this study is to evaluate service quality level in public libraries against Six Sigma quality level by combining SERVQUAL and Six Sigma techniques. A historical analysis of In this research a historical/documentary methodology have been used. Ducumentssome documents representing the status of and files which were related to status ofS science in Iran was conductedwere selected. It also conducted a content analysis n addition,of a random samples of public science magazines. were selected and they were analyzed in terms of their content and orientation. As the sample included documents with Such sampling took place in a situation in which there was no systematic record, the study also created a list of these documents of listings about these magazines existed prior to the date that we did it for the first time. The findings study revealed that show that suchthe magazines have played at least three roles in changing the cultural space of Iranian society. These roles includewere:; a) 1 introducing the infrastructure needed ral necessities for development of Sscience; b), 2- commemoration, admiration and and appreciation and acknowledgement of science by magazines; c), and; 3- quantitative development in the of corresponding public science communication of Science institutions This is an applied study conducted as a survey. The population consists of all SANAEE public library members. Through simple random selection, 217 people are chosen. SERVQUAL questionnaire is used as research tool. Results show that the most satisfactory was “Reliability” dimension. Other dimensions, including “Tangibles”, “Empathy”, “Assurance” and “Responsiveness” are in next ranks respectively. Originality/value: This research is the first one which has dealt with the role of popular public science magazines in structural changes of in Iran. With Cconsidering public science magazines as a cultural space, it is an attempt tothis study illuminate the role of such magazines in the formation and changes transformation of in the structure of public science communication of Science in Iran.

This paper studies presents various techniques of image indexing techniques and discusses their, (Concept-based Image Indexing, Content-based Image Indexing and Folksonomy). Advantages advantages and limitations. of these techniques will be discussed. conducting a review of the lLiterature review, it identifies three main image indexing techniques, namely concept-based image indexing, content-based image indexing and folksonomy. It then describes each technique. Concept-based iImage iIndexing is text-based based. It allows users posting their query, using keywords. The and cContent-based Image image iIndexing is pixel-based. The first approach allows users to post their query using keywords and the later one,It allows users to posting their query by based on(colour, texture, shape, etc.). Images have more semantic features and layers, as a result so; Iindexing for images is more complex than comparing to indexing for texts. That is why indexing a text differs from indexing an image. Originality/value: This article reviews the conceptual framework of image indexing and retrieval and gives a comprehensive view about this sphere by collecting a relatively complete literature about it. This consolidated review can help us to get a right view about image indexing and retrieval. and it makes the differences between text and images indexing.

This e aim study was the investigates effect views of undergraduates on the of designed electronic textbooks in a research methodology on attitude of undergraduate students in courseclass of teaching methods and techniques. The method of research is usedAdopting a quasi-experimental approach, this study compared the attitude of two groups of undergraduate students on the use of e-textbooks in a Research Methodology course. One were exposed to e-textbooks and the other to printed books. The study population included all (32) and The statistics was include all undergraduate students studying in the at Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at of Allameh Tabatabai University that were selected course of teaching methods and techniques in the second semester of the academic yearin the second semester of 1389-90 90-89. The Subjects was included a classroom teaching methods and techniques that was chosen to purposeful. This class had 32 students that were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The beginning was done pre-test of both groups in similar condition. Then the experimental group was exposed to the independent variable and during the third session, trained with the researcher made e-books software and Control group trained with the printed book. In order to examine the resulting changes at the end of the third session, the pre-test was taken from both groups and in resulting; data were analyzed with Ddescriptive and inferential statistics were then used to analyze the data. Finding Findings revealed that attitudes of students were exposed to e-textbooks in the experimental group significantly increased compared to the group who were not exposed to e-textbooks.with the control group the results of this study revealed excellence of attitudes of students that were trained by the electronic book. Originality/Value: The study implies that use of e-textbooks may have positive impact on the higher education in Iran.It thus can be offered use of electronic books in the education.