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        1 - Measurement of knowledge sharing and organizational culture among librarians of public libraries in Shiraz
        Nahid Khoshian
        Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge sharing of inside and outside of the organization among the librarians of the public libraries of Shiraz Metodology: The research method is mixed (quantita More
        Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge sharing of inside and outside of the organization among the librarians of the public libraries of Shiraz Metodology: The research method is mixed (quantitative and qualitative) and using survey. The statistical population of the study included all librarians working in public libraries of Shiraz (195 persons) and sampling was not carried out due to population size limitation and all of them were considered as the statistical population. The analyzes were done using Amos Graphics, SPSS16, and descriptive and inferential statistics including frequency and Pearson correlation coefficient test . Results: According to assessment of  12 percent of respondents, the status of organizational culture and the sharing of knowledge is appropriate and according to assessment of %48 is inappropriate. Conclusion: Organizational culture has a definitive meaningful relationship with the knowledge sharing of inside and outside of the organization. Manuscript profile
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        2 - The Study of Postgraduate Students Internet Anxiety of Shiraz University & Shiraz Medical Science University in The Process of Information Seeking
        Nahid khoshian
        Purpose: Nowadays Internet play an important role in the process of information searching. This new technology has create the new shape of anxiety with itself which is called internet anxiety that a few researches has worked about it. The aim of this study is to identif More
        Purpose: Nowadays Internet play an important role in the process of information searching. This new technology has create the new shape of anxiety with itself which is called internet anxiety that a few researches has worked about it. The aim of this study is to identify the Internet anxiety rate of postgraduate students of shiraz & medical science of Shiraz universities. Methodology: research methodology is analytical survey and the research population is comprised of 5702 graduate students with degree of M.A. in shiraz & medical science of shiraz universities. The volume of sampling was 442 person. Sampling method is randomly by category & data collection instrument, is the questionnaire which one research which validity & reliability of it formerly measured. Findings: The survey of extent of Internet anxiety of respondents showed that most of them 73/8 percent of them is lower than normal (60 ) had internet anxiety, but internet anxiety distribution in the studied society was normal. Conclusion: Research results showed the significant difference between Internet anxiety mean & normal mark of internet anxiety (60 mark) and determined that the anxiety of them is significantly lower than normal scale in the society. Also, it was shown that the significant difference between Internet anxiety mean of male & females students & Internet anxiety mean of female students is more than male students, but did not show significant difference between internet anxiety mean of studied academic areas students. Manuscript profile
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        3 - Review and Comparison of Web results retrieved from web metasearch engines in terms of information retrieval in the field of Knowledge and Information Science
        Nahid khoshian
        Purpose: The purpose of this research is study on the number of 8 proposed metasearch engines Contains Metagopher, Ask Jeeves, Webcrawler, Depperweb, Clusty, Goto, Metalib, Polymeta to response to specific questions in the field of Knowledge and Information Science. M More
        Purpose: The purpose of this research is study on the number of 8 proposed metasearch engines Contains Metagopher, Ask Jeeves, Webcrawler, Depperweb, Clusty, Goto, Metalib, Polymeta to response to specific questions in the field of Knowledge and Information Science. Methodology: The number of 16 specific questions in this field in each metasearch engine searched and The first ten results Evaluated and compared in each metasearch engine for the base of the criteria's of  Relevancy, Precision  & False drops. Totally 1280 search done. data analysis used from the precision formula. Capabilities of each metasearch engine, the rate of false drops and its variants, difference of metasearch engines and selection of the best metasearch engine evaluated in response to these questions. Findings: Findings showed that metasearch engines are not desirable for information retrieval in the field of Knowledge and Information Science. Conclusion: Webcrawler is the best metasearch engine with retrieval of  87.31 percent and also each metasearch engine is different from other metasearch engines in retrieval of results. Manuscript profile