Provide a role model for public libraries in the development of social justice

Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies

Robab Aziz Khani ¹ , Fereshteh Sepehr ^{2 *} , Zohreh Mirhosseini ³ , saeed ghaffari ⁴

1 - PhD Student, Department of Information Science and Knowledge, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science and Knowledge, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Information Science and Epistemology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Professor association, Department of Information Science and Knowledge,, Payam Noor University, ،Tehran, Iran

Received: 2021-07-11 Accepted : 2022-04-28 Published : 2022-08-23

Keywords: public libraries, development of social justice, Role Model,

Abstract :

Objective: Understanding the development of social justice and its related components has opened a new strategy beyond the perspective of libraries to enter them in an operational way. The purpose of this study is to provide a model for the role of public libraries in development of the social justice sense among the society.Methodology: The present study is applied in terms of purpose and is done by correlation method. The information is gathered by field study.  In this study, a combined qualitative and quantitative method was used. For this purpose, first Delphi method was used to collect qualitative data and then quantitative data were collected through a questionnaire. The Delphi questionnaire was used to collect data in the qualitative part and the questionnaire was used in the quantitative part. Experts' opinions were used to evaluate the validity of the questionnaire and Cronbach's alpha was used to evaluate the reliability, which was obtained 0.79 and confirmed. The statistical population in this study includes subject matter experts in the field of Information science and librarians of public libraries in Iran which are divided into five sections: north, south, west, east and center and by non-random method available 22 subjects were selected as the sample size. SPSS statistical software was used to measure the results of the questionnaires.Results: The results showed that the dimensions of the model included cognitive factors, motivational factors, professional and specialized factors, cultural factors, communication factors and management factors that have coefficients and values ​​of T (0.655, / 45, respectively). 5), (0.712, 7.48), (0.489, 3.38), (0.566, 4.78), (0.576, 4.85) and (0.492, 57.5) 3) There are positive and significant effects on the role of public libraries in the development of social justice.Conclusion:  According to the research findings, it can be said that attention to the development of public libraries can be considered as effective factors through cognitive factors, motivational factors, professional and specialized factors, cultural factors, communication factors and managerial factors. Appear and play a role in the development of social justice.