Journal of Knowledge Studies: 5 (39)

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1 - Examining the factors influencing faculty members knowledge sharing based on the Planned Behavior Theory
Nafise Amirinejad Mohammad Aazami Farzaneh Zolala Ali Talebian

Purpose: Knowledge sharing is a critical issue for organizations. They define it as the activities for transferring and distributing knowledge from one person, group, or organization to another person, group or organization. Thus, this study has been conducted aiming at More

Purpose: Knowledge sharing is a critical issue for organizations. They define it as the activities for transferring and distributing knowledge from one person, group, or organization to another person, group or organization. Thus, this study has been conducted aiming at investigating the effective factors on knowledge sharing among faculty members of Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Methodology: The present study is an analytical kind of survey research instruments includes a researcher-made questionnaire which is based on the theory of planned behavior. The population of this study includes 395 participants from faculty members of Kerman University of Medical Sciences out of whom the sample size of 120 participants was determined using co relational coefficient. In order to analyze data descriptive statistics, frequency distribution, percentage, variance, mean, and standard deviation were used and at the level of inferential statistics general linear model was used. The analysis conducted by SPSS 16 software. Findings: The results showed that there is no significant relationship between the attitude and the intention of knowledge sharing but there is a positive and significant relationship of mental norms and perceived behavioral control with the faculty members' intention of knowledge sharing. There is no significant relationship between demographic information (including age, gender, college location, academic ranking, academic degree, and teaching experience) and attitude and mental norms but based on the ranking of the participants, significant relationship has been observed of demographic information and perceived behavioral control with the intention of knowledge sharing. Conclusion: The results showed that the theory of planned behavior has been effective regarding the expression of the effective factors on knowledge sharing, and in order to promote knowledge sharing behavior of faculty members of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, it is necessary for educational and research administrators of the university to apply remedial measures in their agenda for the improvement of faculty members' attitude. In addition to elements of this theory, some of intervening variables like academic ranking of faculty members can influence on the intention of knowledge sharing. Manuscript profile

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2 - Crisis management in the libraries Case Study: The Libraries of affiliated of agricultural research, education and extension organization
Javad Bashiri Fatemeh Zabihi Faridian

Purpose: The main purpose of this research is the determining safety and crisis management in the libraries of institutes and research centers affiliated of agricultural research, education and extension organization. Methodology: In This study descriptive survey met More

Purpose: The main purpose of this research is the determining safety and crisis management in the libraries of institutes and research centers affiliated of agricultural research, education and extension organization. Methodology: In This study descriptive survey method was used. Data collected from the questionnaire and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. The population consisted of 104 special libraries of institutes and research centers affiliated of AREEO. Due to the nature of the study, data analysis and descriptive statistics were used to design charts from Excel. In this study due to the limited population of the sample is not used. Findings: According to the results, 44 percent of the libraries’ buildings in the affiliated of AREEO against of the natural disasters have appropriate conditions. 54 percent of libraries are strength against the earthquake and 68 percent against to hurricane. 86% of libraries are not equipped with any alarm system. More than 90 percent of the libraries lacked emergency exits and over 92 percent have no insurance coverage. 35 percent of staff completed primary fire training and 65 percent of staff had not any education. 94 percent of libraries do not have any plan to deal with the crisis. Conclusion: The results showed that the theory of planned behavior has been effective regarding the Manuscript profile

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3 - Investigation and Comparison of the Use of Persian Scientific Journals Indexed in Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) in Scientific Production of the Mother Universities Researchers During 2001-2010
Maryam Jahangiri Farideh Asareh

Purpose: The present research investigates and compares the use of Persian scientific journals indexed in ISC in the scientific production of the mother universities researchers of Iran during 2001 to 2010. Methodology: This is an applied research which uses citation More

Purpose: The present research investigates and compares the use of Persian scientific journals indexed in ISC in the scientific production of the mother universities researchers of Iran during 2001 to 2010. Methodology: This is an applied research which uses citation analysis and descriptive documentary methods. The mother universities’ total number of scientific production in ISC has been 37988 documents during the given period. The Cochran formula was used for determination of the sample size. Based on this formula, the sample size of each university wan independently calculated. Then, the stratified sampling was used and the number of samples was determined by the ratio of documents in each university and each year. Consequently, the sample size of 2424 documents was obtained and the systematic random method was used to select the documents Data. Findings: Results indicated that 75.5% of the researchers had used ISC Persian scientific journals in their researches during 2001 to 2010. Isfahan University of Technology with 90.3% ranks first in this regard. Amir Kabir University of Technology (83.3%), Shahid Beheshti University (77.8%), Shiraz University (77.6%), Sharif University of Technology (75.3%), University of Tehran (77.1%), Tarbiat Modarres University (70%) and Iran University of Science and Technology (53.3%) have used ISC journals respectively. Conclusion: Findings of this research indicate that researchers often cite journals which are indexed in the citation databases. Moreover, the results of this study show that from all cited journals 57.9% are printed/electronic journals and 42.1% are printed journals. Therefore, it seems that the open access e-journals receive more citations from the users. Manuscript profile

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4 - The Relationship between Sexuality and Library Anxiety
shohreh seyyedHosseini Abdolrasoul Khosravi Reza Basirian Jahromi

Purpose: This research aims to investigate the relationship between sexuality and Library Anxiety of Bushehr government-sponsored universities students. Methodology: In this descriptive study which is of correlation type, a total of 700 students of Bushehr University More

Purpose: This research aims to investigate the relationship between sexuality and Library Anxiety of Bushehr government-sponsored universities students. Methodology: In this descriptive study which is of correlation type, a total of 700 students of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences (Ministry of Health and Medical Education) and Persian Gulf University (Ministry of Science, Research and Technology) were selected through Stratified random sampling. All data were collected by using normalized Questionnaire of Library Anxiety and analyzed using SPSS. In an analytical statistics part some various tests like T-test, an independent T test, mann-whitney test, Pearson correlation test, and regression test were used. Findings: The findings showed that students of the two universities have lower library anxiety than average levels (91.73) and this anxiety is Just in the component "mechanical factors" above average. Comparing male and female students showed that at a significant level of 0.97 there is no difference between them in library anxiety. However, comparing the components, male and female students were significantly different in the component of "factors from interacting with librarians. Conclusion: Also, according to sexual divisions we can conclude that there is no significant difference between the total scores of male and female students in Library Anxiety. However, findings show that Male and female students are significantly different only in "factors from interacting with librarians . Manuscript profile

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5 - Evaluation of faculty members Research performance at Bushehr University of Medical Sciences in Google Scholar during 2009-2013
Khadijeh Shabankareh Mitra Baghjannati Ali Hamidi

Purpose: Considering the importance of scientific production in the ranking of universities and evaluation of faculty members as researchers who have most contribution in the scientific productions of universities, the present study examined the research performance of More

Purpose: Considering the importance of scientific production in the ranking of universities and evaluation of faculty members as researchers who have most contribution in the scientific productions of universities, the present study examined the research performance of faculty members’ Bushehr University of Medical Sciences in Google Scholar in terms of quantity and quality. Methodology: This research is descriptive survey was conducted using citation analysis. The study sample is scientific outputs of all faculty members working at Bushehr University of Medical Sciences in 2014 (including 160), which is indexed in Google Scholar. Data were collected using publish or perish, a citation analysis software. Data were analyzed using Microsoft Excel and descriptive indicators. Findings: The finding of this study showed that, 37/26% of the study population did not have any scientific Documents in Google Scholar and most of them (59/37%) had less than 20 Documents. Averaging 4/73 Documents for each of researcher was indexed in Google Scholar, and each person had received an average of 19/33 citation. The average number of citations per Document was also 1/83. Hirsch index average was equal to 1/45 and G-index was 1/2. Hirsch index and G-index were equal to zero for 48/12% of the study population. Conclusion: The present study indicates that the total number of documents, the total number of citations and Hirsh and G-index for the most researchers in this study are low. Low experience of the most researchers, language barriers and low international access to Persian documents are major reasons for this. Manuscript profile

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6 - INVESTIGATING THE LIBRARIANS' STATUS OF ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY AT LIBRARIES OF ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY IN DISTRICT
mitra ghiasi Soheila jabbari

Purpose: To determine the organizational agility in Islamic Azad university libraries of region 3. Methodology: Metod is survey - analytical and practical. . The statistical society consists 18 librarries whit 40 librarians that participate in this survey. The questi More

Purpose: To determine the organizational agility in Islamic Azad university libraries of region 3. Methodology: Metod is survey - analytical and practical. . The statistical society consists 18 librarries whit 40 librarians that participate in this survey. The questionnaire is a researcher-made, that its  reliability is 0.8. base on Cronbach test. Data analysis using descriptive statistics (measures of dispersion) and analytical (one-sample t test student, independent T test, One-way ANOVA and Friedman) was performed by SPSS. Findings: Average organizational agility was 2.98 from 5. Component "response" had minimum mean (2.93) and Component "flexibility and adaptability" had maximum mean (3.04.There is not  significant correlation between the libraries and organizational agility and its component . Conclusion: In the libraries, levels of  organizational agility and all its components are in the medium. Manuscript profile

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7 - Cost-Benefit Survey of Conservation and Preservation Methods of Resources in Libraries of Tehran Governmental Universities
Effat Karimi mazrae Shahi Abass Gilvari

Purpose: The main objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-benefit of resources’ conservation and preservation methods in libraries of Tehran governmental universities. Methodology: The method of the present research is descriptive. The stratified sampl More

Purpose: The main objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-benefit of resources’ conservation and preservation methods in libraries of Tehran governmental universities. Methodology: The method of the present research is descriptive. The stratified sampling technique is used to indicate a total sample of 83 managers/ supervisors of central and academic libraries (contain 13 central and 70 academic libraries) who 42 of them (51 percent) answer the questionnaires. To gather at the research data a questionnaire with 9 tables is designed. Validity of the questionnaire was determined with some of library professors and its reliability was measured with Cornbrash’s alpha about 0.88 that is good. The data analysis of the present research was performed by Excel. Findings: Findings showed that in this population, cleaning (62.20 percent) is the most activity of conservation, and binding and replacement (83.34 percent) is the most activity of preservation. Also in the libraries with the higher resources, cost-benefit attribute (desirability of economic profitability) is relatively good. The situation is more or less similar to the average resource libraries, but in the libraries with lower sources which the major part of the research (about 64/29 percent) there is not any desirability of economic profitability in the conservation and preservation selected methods. Conclusion: The results of the libraries’ cost-benefit evalution showed that small libraries are in the unsuitable situation. Protection against atmospheric pollution, security, and protection against fire methods are the main shortcomings in these groups of libraries. Manuscript profile

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8 - Foresighting information technology in university libraries of Iran in the 1404
nadjla hariri Vahideh Rezaei

Purpose: The purpose of this study is the foresight of IT in university libraries of Iran in 1404. Methodology:The research was done by using future research approach. The research method was Delphi study. In order to determine the components, a questionnaire was pre More

Purpose: The purpose of this study is the foresight of IT in university libraries of Iran in 1404. Methodology:The research was done by using future research approach. The research method was Delphi study. In order to determine the components, a questionnaire was prepared. Using this questionnaire the importance of each component of the information technology foresight was evaluated from the perspective of the members of Delphi panel in two rounds. The Delphi panel consisted of experts, professors and managers in field of library, Information science, IT and foresight experts. Among them 25 expert were selected by using purposeful sampling. Findings: The results indicate that Academic Libraries in the future will expand its electronic resources and extend networks in the fields the use of the Intranet and its infrastructure development. The results of the study indicate that the future of academic libraries will increase accessible broadband to Internet and benefit the local intranet and use of geographic information systems will be in the online environment as an important resource for the academic community. Conclusion: The results of this study illustrates impact of the trends affecting on Key factors IT in the future of Academic Libraries. The increase in the rate of investment in information technology will have severe positive impact. Manuscript profile

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