Purpose: The aim of this paper is identifying and analyzing elements and features of Simorgh library software, and measuring its users and librarians’ satisfaction. Methodology: The methodology of this study is of survey type and it is an applied study. Tools for More
Purpose: The aim of this paper is identifying and analyzing elements and features of Simorgh library software, and measuring its users and librarians’ satisfaction. Methodology: The methodology of this study is of survey type and it is an applied study. Tools for data collection is QUIS questionnaire that was distributed among all librarians and 386 users of Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi whom were selected through simple random sampling without replacement. Both descriptive and deductive statistics methods were utilized for data analysis. Findings: Findings showed that the level of satisfaction of participants with interaction to Simorgh software is in average, whereas the librarians were significantly more satisfied than the users. The highest level of satisfaction of users and librarians was related to general reaction with interaction to Simorgh software and interface display, while the lowest level of satisfaction was related to software help and interface vocabularies and messages. Conclusion: Efficiency of user interface of Simorgh software from the view of users and librarians of Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi is in average and in a few cases is higher than medium, and with more attention to the consistency of user interface elements and features of the software to the needs, views and features of different groups of users can be added to their satisfaction.
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In this research, Rasa user interface is evaluated using heuristic approach. Results showed that in designing Rasa user interface, 64 percent of needed criteria were observed and the most observed one belongs to the aesthetics (90 percent), and the least observed one wa More
In this research, Rasa user interface is evaluated using heuristic approach. Results showed that in designing Rasa user interface, 64 percent of needed criteria were observed and the most observed one belongs to the aesthetics (90 percent), and the least observed one was 70 percent belonging to the error prevention. Results of this research show that although most of the criteria have been observed but there are a lot of problems in user interface of Rasa software which should be considered.
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Purpose: The present study investigated the affective factors which brought technology to adopting Namaye Nashryat software by librarian in public libraries depended on the organization of public libraries of the country in 22 regions of Tehran. Methodology: This surve More
Purpose: The present study investigated the affective factors which brought technology to adopting Namaye Nashryat software by librarian in public libraries depended on the organization of public libraries of the country in 22 regions of Tehran. Methodology: This survey was an analytical study. The participants consist of 131 librarian and the head of the libraries in public libraries. The census method was used. Questionnaire was utilized for collecting data. The collected data was analyzed using spss16 in both descriptive and analytic statistics. Descriptive statistics consist frequency, percentage and mean, while for analytic statistics Single-Sample T test and Pearson correlation coefficient were applied. Findings: The finding showed technological factors (relative advantage, adoption, easy to use, Trainability and observability) were affective in Namaye Nashryat technology adoption by librarian in public library in Tehran. There was a significant positive and direct relation with adoption. Moreover, the adoption and complexity are recognized respectively as the strongest and the weakest affective factor in technology adoption. Conclusion: Results showed that all technological factors have been affecting the adoption of these technologies. Therefore, it is recommended that in the beginning arrival and deployment of information technologies to libraries, necessary and adequate educations be trained to the librarians, and also library managers and buyers Software libraries when buying and deployment of information technologies, were considered the technology characteristics: relative advantage, complexity (ease of use), adaptation, Trainability and visibility.
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