Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of professional ethics on job performance by the mediation of the ethical climate in university libraries in Ahvaz.Method: The present study was applied research in terms of purpose and a quantitative study in terms of method, which has been done by the descriptive-correlation method. The statistical population of the study was librarians of university libraries in Ahvaz, 87 of whom participated in the research by census method. In this study, questionnaires on ethical climate, job performance, and professional ethics have been used. Analyses of instrument reliability using Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the ethical atmosphere questionnaire (0.86); the job performance questionnaire (0.80), and the professional ethics questionnaire (0.95) were calculated. To analyze the data, tests such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and structural equation modeling (SEM) using the partial least squares method have been used.Results: The results showed that professional ethics has a significant effect on the job performance of librarians of university libraries in Ahvaz and the ethical atmosphere of libraries. On the other hand, the moral atmosphere has a significant effect on the professional performance of librarians in university libraries in Ahvaz. The results also indicated that professional ethics through the ethical atmosphere has a significant indirect effect on the job performance of librarians in academic libraries. According to the results, all four research hypotheses have been confirmed.Conclusions: The existence of ethical frameworks and guidelines in academic libraries can provide the basis for the emergence and consolidation of the ethical atmosphere in these libraries. A librarian can only perform well if he or she can demonstrate his or her moral and behavioral abilities in a favorable ethical environment and thus, can reach a wide range of clients tailored to their needs and characteristics.
Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes of librarians about the degree of compliance of the integrated management system in the libraries of Shahid Chamran University and Ahvaz Jondishapur University of Medical Sciences with the Semantic WebMethodology: The present study is applied in terms of purpose and has been done by survey method and with a descriptive approach. The statistical population of the study consists of all librarians of the libraries of Shahid Chamran University and Ahvaz Jondishapur University of Medical Sciences this study a researcher-made checklist was used to collect data. The SPSS software was used to analyze the data.Findings: Findings showed that the level of knowledge of librarians about the semantic web in general and by components was limited. The results also showed that in the opinion of librarians in the study community, the comprehensive software available in the librarians of two universities has limited compatibility with the semantic web. The results showed that there is no significant relationship between demographic variables and librarians familiarity with the semantic web.Conclusion: The general results of the research showed that from the point of view of librarians the degree of adaptation of the comprehensive software available in the studied libraries to the semantic web has been limited. librarians also have limited knowledge of the semantic web and need to be trained in this area.
Objective: This study aimed to draw a scientific map and analyze the clusters of research published in the field of social network applications to libraries and information centers using documents indexed in Web of Science.Methods: This research is applied research conducted using content analysis and a descriptive-analytical approach. The statistical population is 307 publications in the field of social networks in libraries and information centers, indexed in Web of Science between 2016 and 2020. The data collection tool is a researcher-made checklist. Excel and scientometric softwares were used to analyze the data.Results: The results showed that the keywords of social media, academic libraries, social network, and social network analysis have the highest frequency. The findings also indicated that the subject area of social networks includes nine clusters; the main cluster is related to the second cluster, which is mainly associated with social media and consists of 13 keywords.Conclusions: The results of the research show that social networks had a special role and position in the field of library and information sciencein 2018. The number of publications in this field in 2020 is far less than the previous years and the number of published works in this year has been decreasing. According to the research done on social networks and their various aspects, much research has been conducted, and all its aspects have been investigated. However, the investigation of research in this area with an emphasis on its application in libraries and information centers has not been done, and the present study can familiarize researchers with the conducted research and guide them to conduct applied research to fill the existing gaps.
Purpose: This research attempts to determine the status of the University of Tehran’s central library to establish the maker movement.Method: For so doing, both a library study method is used to prepare a checklist, and a survey method is done. By a purposive sampling, an interview with the Head of Central Library and Documentation Center of the Tehran University was carried out and a questionnaire was distributed among the librarians.Findings: The findings indicate that the central library’s condition in terms of human resources, finances, and infrastructure is not proper for the current makerspace.Conclusion: The results show that a high level of education and work experience has a positive effect on librarians' familiarity, skill and interest. For librarians, funding from the parent organization is greater than funding from library funding and other sources. Male librarians are less interested in establishing a maker movement, despite being more familiar with the makerspace and skillful in performing activities related to the makerspace. The organizing and cataloging department is more interested in creating a makerspace. The level of education and high work experience has a positive effect on the level of familiarity, skill and interest of librarians with activities related to the creative construction space, which can be used in the field of guiding, training and controlling related activities. For most librarians, there is enough time and space in the central library for makerspace. Undesirable hardware and software equipment in the library and lack of knowledge about digitalization laboratory equipment affect the level of knowledge of librarians.
Purpose: This research has been done in line with the analysis of the intellectual structure of existing studies in the field of greenwashing and corporate social responsibility, to examine the scientific productions available and to draw a scientific map in this field.Methodology: The present study is of an applied type and with the scientometric approach and the techniques of co-authorship and co-occurrence of words, the most important authors and thematic clusters have been identified and a scientific map has been drawn in this field. The statistical population included 4685 scientific documents indexed in the WOS database between 1970 and 2022, which were analyzed using descriptive statistics and VOSviewer software.Findings: The findings indicate an upward trend in the publication of articles over the last 52 years, with the highest number of articles in 2021 (1023). The map of authors' collaboration shows the 3 clusters with the most participation in the scientific network of authors' collaboration, centered on Han, Ahmed, Ullah. Also, the evolution of keywords from the focus of companies on green marketing and social responsibility and the establishment of environmental laws and policies towards creating doubts and reducing loyalty and satisfaction in consumers and jeopardizing the credibility and financial performance of the company and building trust by changing policies, strategies and values and disclosing environmental performance has been observed.Conclusion: The results of the analysis of thematic clusters in this research show the researchers' attention to the investigation of the causes and consequences of the occurrence of greenwashing in order to identify and prevent this category of actions of companies.
Objective: This study examines the extent to which graduate students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz have personal knowledge management skills based on the model of Cheung and Tsui (2010) to provide solutions to improve and enhance their skills.Methodology: This research is of descriptive and analytical type and its survey method. Pabakhsh questionnaire (2016) was used. The research population is the master and doctoral students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz who started their studies in the academic year 2017-2018. The sample size was 351 according to Krejcie and Morgan table. Descriptive and inferential statistical tests were performed to analyze the data using the SPSS statistical software.Findings: Data analysis showed that the situation of graduate students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz in terms of personal knowledge management skills is equal to an average of 3.50, which has been evaluated at a relatively desirable level according to the Likert scale. In other words, in "interpersonal knowledge transfer", "personal wisdom creation", "personal knowledge internalization" and "personal information management" are at a relatively desirable level. In addition, among the studied skills, graduate students had the most information in presentation skills and the least information retrieval and analysis.Conclusion: Considering that the level of students' personal knowledge management skills was determined at a relatively desirable level, it is necessary to teach them the skills. Empowering them with such skills helps them make decisions, solve problems, increase efficiency, and achieve personal goals.
Objective: The purpose of this research is to identify and quantitatively and qualitatively analyze dissertations on books and children's librarianshipMethods: This research has provided a quantitative and qualitative report on the content analysis of 379 theses on children's books, libraries, and librarianship from 2015-2022.Results: The Theses are placed in two main categories, "books and genres" with 11 subcategories and "promotion of reading and information service" with nine subcategories. Findings showed that the genres had ups and downs during this period, but the lack of research on picture books and the popular genre, fantasy, among teenagers is disappointing. A large number of dissertations in four fields: Persian language and literature (especially for children's literature), educational sciences (for the effect of books and storytelling on education), Knowledge and Information Science (because of the promotion of reading and information service to children) and foreign languages (with an emphasis on translation methods and language teaching by storytelling) are expected. But the reluctance of librarians to research on storytelling (the most frequent subcategory) and the low number of research on promoting reading, as one of the most important concerns of this field, is alarming. In this research, content analysis and library method has been the most used method due to the nature of literary texts. Also, it seems that obtaining a convincing and unequivocal result in allocating one of the four approaches: problem-based, topic-based, text-based and comparative to theses, requires the critical opinion of children's literature experts.Conclusions: In this research, in addition to a different view in identifying the categories and subcategories of theses, up to three levels, as well as determining the works and authors that have been researched, each of these researches was also examined from the aspects of problem-based, topic-based, text-based and comparative.
Background and purpose: Tadzkirah Al-Shoðra is a general biographical memoir written in the biography of poets and writers of Iranian and Arab. There are many manuscripts of this book in Iran and the world, but the two manuscripts of the National Library and the manuscripts of the Library of Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad have the same date of the author. Experts believe the Mashhad version is the author's script. However, it seems the 15039 version of the National Library is the oldest because it script is graceful Nastaliq. Until now, there have studied various but few on Tazkira Al-Shaara. These researches are only one correction and a few short articles that the famous versions have not introduced. A copy of this book dated 7 Rajab 893 AH is available in the Central Library of the University of Tehran. This article aims to introduce this exquisite and old version and it compares with some other versions of Tadzkire in the same library. The edition 2468 of the Central Library of the University of Tehran was introduced for the first time and it is very important in terms of a research codicology because it is close to the time of its composition.Materials and methods: The study was based on a qualitative review and analysis of the writing and language of the Tazkira al-Sha'ar version with a library method.Findings: This article introduces and examines the linguistic structure, vocabulary, and writing style in the 2468 edition. The script of the manuscript and drawing of letters and words has written in the 9th century. The copy is complete and has no gaps and the authenticity and trustworthiness of the text have been preserved based on the oldest available text. It is a vocalized version and language acquisition is very low in this version. Dolatshah has defined and divided the poets based on their lifetime in the Tazkira. He has introduced some limited poets and some have been described in detail.Conclusion; The text of the version is written almost identically. The drawing of letters and words throughout a copy is fixed and matured. The writing and content of this manuscript are very similar to the oldest version, which is probably the author's handwriting.
Objective: The main purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between the level of participation in knowledge management and the critical thinking tendency among librarians of central libraries of public universities in Tehran. Methodology: This research is descriptive-correlational in terms of research method and is a survey branch. In addition, according to the purpose, it falls into the category of applied research. The statistical population of this study consisted of librarians of the central libraries of public universities in Tehran, whose number was 210 people. Using the Morgan table, a sample number of 136 people was obtained. Data were collected using two standard questionnaires: Employee Participation in Knowledge Management (Kulkarni et al. (2007)) and the California Critical Thinking Tendency Questionnaire (1992). The supervisor validated both questionnaires. The reliability of the questionnaires was obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the questionnaire on employee participation in knowledge management was 0.946 and for the questionnaire of critical thinking tendency was 0.933. The data analysis was done through descriptive statistics and inferential statistics using SPSS software. Results: The results of data analysis showed that there is a significant positive relationship between the variable of critical thinking tendency and participation in knowledge management. Conclusion: Researchers define and examine critical thinking in two dimensions: critical thinking skills and tendencies, in previous researches the relationship between knowledge management and the skills dimension was investigated, but in this research, the relationship between participation in knowledge management and the dimension of tendency to critical thinking was investigated.
ABSTRACT This article discusses radiocarbon dating results of documents preserved at the Central Library of the University of Tehran (hereafter, CLUT) as part of the project “Irankoran.” The paper adds new evidence to an ongoing campaign of dating Qurʾāns and Oriental manuscripts by the Corpus Coranicum Project. The dated manuscripts include one kūfī fragment of the Qurʾān on parchment (no. 10950) and a selection of Islamic and Persian manuscripts, all from the second millennium: the Arabic dictionary Muǧmal al-Luġah (Meškāt no. 203), the medical encyclopedia Ḏaḫīrah-ye Kh w ārazmšāhī (no. 5156), the epic Panǧ Ganǧ of Neẓāmī (no. 5179), the book of wisdom Ādāb al-Falāsifah (no. 2165) attributed to Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (d. 873 CE), and one of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Avesta Wīdēwdād (no. 11263). Although the authenticity of their colophons is disputed, radiocarbon dating supports the dates of the colophons; even in cases where they were suspected of being tampered with, they most likely present the accurate original dates of the corresponding manuscripts. Only in the case of Ādāb al-Falāsifah (no. 2165), radiocarbon dating of the parchment has identified the manuscript as non-authentic. Inconsistent carbon dating results of two samples taken from Ḏaḫīrah-ye Khwārazmšāhī (no. 5156) and Panǧ Ganǧ (no. 5179) provide evidence of later replaced/added leaves.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of readiness of Iranian academic libraries for sustainable management to realize green libraries.Method: In terms of the type of objective, the present research is applied research, and it was carried out by a descriptive survey method. The statistical population of this research includes different departments of university libraries under the supervision of the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. In this research, a researcher-made checklist was used to collect the data, which was prepared based on the components of the ISO 14000, and a Delphi panel was used to determine its validity, and SPSS 22 software was applied to analyze the research data.Results: According to the obtained results, it can be concluded that the libraries of Iranian universities are far from the indicators of readiness to become green libraries, and in order to reach the desired level, it seems necessary to review the design of their infrastructure. The results also showed compliance with rules such as waste management, optimal energy consumption and use of renewable energies, attention to the optimal consumption of natural resources such as paper, the use of environmentally friendly raw materials and equipment in the library, and so forth. There are those who help the libraries in obtaining the necessary standards to become a green library.Conclusions: Considering the importance of paying attention to environmental issues, this research is the first work done in this direction in this society and its scope.
Objective: Knowledge sharing is one of the main processes of knowledge, which is affected by various human, technical and contextual factors. This research aims to identify the effect of professional relationships and toxic leadership on knowledge sharing.Method: In terms of the purpose, it is considered an applied research, and in terms of the data collection method, it is considered descriptive-correlation. The data of the study was collected from a sample of 313 employees of educational institutions who were selected according to the Krejcie-Morgan table and by the accessible method; In addition, the relative contribution of the class of the place of service has been considered in the selection of the sample. In order to collect data with Dixon's standard knowledge sharing questionnaire, Noe's professional relationships scale and Schmidt and Hanges toxic leadership subscale of the Rustayi toxic climate questionnaire were used. After removing outlier data using conventional methods, the number of samples reached 248 people. 235 of these employees were educational and cultural, and the data related to them were analyzed using Pearson's correlation test in SPSS 26 software and structural equation modeling in LISREL 8.8 software.Results: The results show the good fit of the conceptual model and the confirmation of all hypotheses, including the direct and positive effect of professional relationships on knowledge sharing, as well as the confirmation of its indirect effect through the mediation of Toxic leadership on knowledge sharing at a confidence level of 95%. The negative and significant effect of professional relationship on toxic leadership and the negative and significant effect of toxic leadership on knowledge sharing were also confirmed.Conclusions: To prevent the diminishing effect of toxic leadership on knowledge sharing and also to prevent its diminishing effect on the effect of professional relationships on knowledge sharing, the educational-cultural staff of these institutions should not refrain from presenting views and refuse to give their opinion; Because their very action can provide the ground for the isolation of toxic leaders.
Objective: In order to optimal utilization of personalized services, it is necessary to identify status of personalized service in digital academic libraries in Iran. Reviewing the status of digital academic libraries shows which components and indicators of personalization need to be planned and developed.Methodology: This study has been done by descriptive survey method. 70 digital academic libraries were surveyed. The collection tool was researcher-made checklist. The checklist was prepared based on a systematic review of related studies. Statistical techniques including frequency distribution and frequency percentage were used to analyze the data.Findings: indicated that there are 47 percent of content personalization indicators; 47.1 percent of interactive personalization indicators; 8.1 percent of collaborative personalization indicators; 17 percent of personalization in information retrieval indicators; and 23.4 percent of user profile indicators in the surveyed libraries. In general, the status of service personalization in digital academic libraries is poor and personalized services in digital academic libraries in Iran has a customization and user-centered approach. Universities need to improve their performance on the move to digital libraries and the use of personalized services. Providing services with a system-based approach in libraries should be reviewed and given more attention.Originality: This study has for the first time reviewed the status of personalized services in digital academic libraries in Iran. In addition, by preparing a checklist based on a systematic review of studies, it has tried to obtain a comprehensive view of the status of personalized services in digital academic libraries in Iran.
Objective: Knowledge sharing is one of the key areas for knowledge-based companies and is one of the most important priorities for knowledge management practitioners in the world. Knowledge sharing in the organization reduces costs in knowledge production and ensures the dissemination of working methods within the organization and enables the organization to solve its problems and issues, otherwise organizations in a competitive environment with many challenges and crises they face.Materials and Methods: The purpose of this article is to determine the weighting and prioritization of factors affecting knowledge sharing in Guilan Science and Technology Park using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). In the first step, based on knowledge management studies and literature, a researcher-made 5-point Likert scale questionnaire was created, which was distributed and collected as a questionnaire between two groups of external and internal experts.Results: Factors affecting knowledge sharing were identified and categorized in four dimensions: 1) individual factors 2) organizational factors 3) socio-cultural factors and 4) technology factors. In the next step, in the form of a pair of questionnaires and with the help of Expert Choice software, these factors were prioritized and weighted. . According to the results of the second questionnaire; Socio-cultural factors (weighing 0. 340); Individual factors (weighing 0. 287), technological factors (weighing 0. 237) and organizational factors (weighing 0. 136) have the greatest impact on knowledge sharing, respectively.Conclusion: It is suggested that the managers and policy makers of Guilan Science and Technology Park strongly support the socio-cultural factors in the organizational units with the help of human resources in order to make the most of the results of knowledge sharing.
Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes of librarians about the degree of compliance of the integrated management system in the libraries of Shahid Chamran University and Ahvaz Jondishapur University of Medical Sciences with the Semantic WebMethodology: The present study is applied in terms of purpose and has been done by survey method and with a descriptive approach. The statistical population of the study consists of all librarians of the libraries of Shahid Chamran University and Ahvaz Jondishapur University of Medical Sciences this study a researcher-made checklist was used to collect data. The SPSS software was used to analyze the data.Findings: Findings showed that the level of knowledge of librarians about the semantic web in general and by components was limited. The results also showed that in the opinion of librarians in the study community, the comprehensive software available in the librarians of two universities has limited compatibility with the semantic web. The results showed that there is no significant relationship between demographic variables and librarians familiarity with the semantic web.Conclusion: The general results of the research showed that from the point of view of librarians the degree of adaptation of the comprehensive software available in the studied libraries to the semantic web has been limited. librarians also have limited knowledge of the semantic web and need to be trained in this area.
Purpose: Plagiarism is copying words, texts, images, and the like, and using the thoughts of others as one's own. The purpose of this study is to determine the extent of various factors on the tendency to plagiarism among Ph.D. students of Bu-Ali University. Method: The method of the present research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of this study consists of all Ph.D. students of Bu-Ali University. The total number of students at Bu-Ali University is equal to 832 students, which according to Cochran's formula, the sample size was equal to 263 people. Five questionnaires were used to collect data. The reliability of these questionnaires through Cronbach's alpha was equal to 0.948, 0.955, 0.968, 986, and 0.975 respectively. In order to test research hypotheses, structural equation modeling in Warp PLS7 software was used. Findings: The results of data analysis showed that the variables of perception of plagiarism, attitude to plagiarism and personal harassment have a negative and significant effect on the rate of plagiarism of students. Also, the variable of academic jurisprudence has a positive and significant effect on the rate of plagiarism of students.Conclusion: It seems that students' knowledge, understanding and awareness of plagiarism and its examples, policies and legal punishment in this field are at a low level. That the officials and administrators of the universities take the necessary measures in order to make the students more aware and familiar with the consequences of this work.
.Objective: The purpose of this article is to identify the institutional repository evaluation indicators and to evaluate the compliance of the institutional repository of Al-Zahra University with it.Methodology : This research has used the qualitative method., the meta-combined method has been used to create the indicators. And the panel of experts has been identified to refine the criteria and a last part of the researcher-made checklist has been used to check the realization of the selected criteria using descriptive statistics. Findings: The findings showed that a total of 70 elements divided into six categories (technology, policy, content, marketing, personnel and user application) are among the evaluation indicators which was obtained from the meta-synthesizing and the institutional repository of Al-Zahra University was evaluated according to these criteria. Conclusion: According to the research findings, institutional repository indicators were conceptualized in 6 dimensions of technology, procedure, content, marketing, personnel and user, which serves the analysis of institutional repositories. The result is that the condition of Al-Zahra University repository corresponds to 3/4 standards in terms of standards. And a slight weakness is seen in some areas such as procedure and line and policy and content management and technology and personnel. Which should be carefully reviewed in weak areas and try to improve the quality of the institutional repository such as Spark.
Objective: This research identified dimensions and Indicators of personal knowledge management and presented an Interpretative Structural Model of Indicators affecting personal knowledge management in the Regional Water Company of Fars.Methodology: This study is practical in terms of type and purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of data collection method, which has been done with a quantitative approach. Data collection tools are checklists and factor matrices. The statistical population of this study includes all employees of Regional Water Company of Fars in 1400 (350 people). That by Using of purposive sampling method, 25 knowledge management experts were selected as the statistical sample of the research.Findings: According to Penetration power model and the degree of dependence identified among the Indicators studied in this study, Indicators of "scientific activities to achieve solutions to specific issues or problems in the Scientific field ", "Scientific activities for inventing new laboratory methods", "Patent or scientific discovery based on scientific activities", "Storage and classification of important and required files and folders", "Book Publishing (Compilation)", and "Publication of a scientific research article" are the most effective indicators of personal knowledge management among the employees of Regional Water Company of Fars.Originality: Identifying the Penetration power model and the degree of dependence of indicators of tacit knowledge management causes organizations to identify their strengths and weaknesses to improve the flow of knowledge in inside and outside of their organization. This research is conducted for the first time in Regional Water Company of Fars.
Purpose : The purpose of this study is to "design a model for evaluating the responsiveness of Iranian university library services". Methodology: In this research, a qualitative model for evaluating the responsiveness of library services in the university libraries of the country was developed using a qualitative method. The study population consisted of 15 university library managers and librarianship experts who were selected by snowball method. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data in this study.Findings: according to the weight obtained in the coding stages, user satisfaction indicators, employee information literacy, use of service innovations, application of technology, service delivery as an underlying process, access to information, holding training courses In line with the goals and continuous and regular assessment of service quality, they were able to gain the most weight. In order to design the relevant model, 9 components were identified, which are 1- Leadership 2- Policy 3- Employee Outcomes 4- User Outcomes 5- Employees 6- Processes 7- Community Outcomes 8- Key Performance Outcomes and 9- Partnerships and Resources Conclution: According to the designed model, it seems that the components of leadership, policy and strategy, as well as processes will affect employees, partnerships and resources, and thus affect the results of employees and users. The results of the model also show that the results of employees and users affect the results of the community and ultimately the key results of performance. This model is useful for comparing the responsive quality of a library service with other academic libraries.
Purpose: The research aimed to proposing a conceptual model for Publishing Video Articles in Scientific Journals in Iran. The objective of the present study is to offer a conceptual model for utilizing video in publishing research founding in in Scientific Journals in Iran and its methodology is a combination of surveys and Delphi technique also, to present the model Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and PLS-SEM modeling were used, and validating the final model was done by examining the indices of discriminant validity, reliability, and the validity of the convergence of reflective structures and Examination of model fit criteria.Findings: According to the research findings, the t - value obtained for the effect of the final model variables show that the relationship between dependent variables and independent variables is positive and significant. The implications of the release of video paper have the highest impact on the publication of video articles on Iranian scientific - scholarly journals. Based on the model obtained based on the Delphi panel view, it is responsible for the release of video articles providing hardware, software, network imaging, and communication and legal requirements. According to the value obtained for the redundancy coefficient index with R2 0.171 value for the diffusion variable of video articles in academic journals, it can be concluded that the model's ability to predict the diffusion of video articles is too moderate and strong values for The GOF demonstrates the overall moderate fit of the model.
