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        1 - Investigating the Relationship between Information Literacy and Organizational Creativity: A Case Study
        tooran bagheri Malihe Baviran
        Objective: In modern society, information literacy is considered as an essential element for the creativity of employees in the organizations. Therefore, having creative and literate employees is one of the necessities of any organization. The purpose of this study is t More
        Objective: In modern society, information literacy is considered as an essential element for the creativity of employees in the organizations. Therefore, having creative and literate employees is one of the necessities of any organization. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between information literacy and creativity of employees of the Management and Planning Organization of East Azerbaijan Province.Methodology: This research is applied research that has been done by survey method and descriptively. The statistical population includes the employees of the Management and Planning Organization of East Azerbaijan Province in 1400. Using Morgan table of statistical sample size, out of 128 employees, 97 people were selected by simple random sampling and tested. Data collection tool is a Standard questionnaire. Validity was confirmed by a number of professors and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha of 93%. Data were analyzed by SPSS software using analysis of variance, independent t-test and regression.Results: The findings showed that the correlation coefficient between information literacy and employee creativity is 0.496. In addition, among the 4 components of information literacy, identifying information needs with a coefficient of 0.510 has a greater impact on employee creativity, so information literacy and creativity of employees of the Management and Planning Organization of East Azerbaijan Province is above average and in good condition.Conclusion: According to the research results, it is a creative and innovative organization whose employees have up-to-date knowledge and information literacy. Therefore, hiring and retaining employees with information literacy, creative and innovative, should be at the top of other organizational affairs. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Co-occurrence analysis of words and visualizing a scientific map of researches about schools
        Niloofar Parsafard Ali Khalkhali Zohreh Shakibaei
        Objective: The purpose of this research was to analysis the co-occurrence of words and visualizing a scientific map of researches about schools.Methodology: This research was applied, descriptive/ analytical, and based on scientometrics technique. The statistical popula More
        Objective: The purpose of this research was to analysis the co-occurrence of words and visualizing a scientific map of researches about schools.Methodology: This research was applied, descriptive/ analytical, and based on scientometrics technique. The statistical population were articles indexed in SID, comprehensive humanities portal, Magiran, and Eric databases, in 9 years (2012-2020), searching for the keyword "school". In one part of the study, the whole community and in another part, Bradford's law were used for sampling. Also, diagrams of co-matrices and scientific maps were prepared by Raver-Matrix and VOSviewer software, respectively.Results: In search of the keyword "school" in the databases, 4390 Persian articles (2012-2020) and 14313 English articles (2012-2020); Also 1712 Persian words, and 3563 English words were found. According to the findings, the highest growth rates of school-centered Persian researches were in 2019 (16.42%) and 2018 (14.33%), and in English in 2012 (20.09%). Most of these articles were in the fields of "psychology" and "education". Also, the highest co-occurrence rate of words with the school belonged to the "critical thinking-mind" in Persian and "students-schools" in English articles.Conclusion: Analysis of "school" developments at the national and international levels has shown that many researches have addressed this concept in recent years. The study of the publication rate of researches; and words co-occurrence with "school", suggests that "school" was implicitly within various fields; that’s necessary to focus on studied in a specialized field instead of scattered. Manuscript profile
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        4 - =Study of personal information management skills by librarians of governmental universities of Tabriz
        Fatemeh Jamali Zahra Jamali
        Objective: The main purpose of research is to Study the personal information management of librarians in the city of Tabriz. Methodology: This study is based on the purpose of the applied type and in terms of data collection method. The study population consists of More
        Objective: The main purpose of research is to Study the personal information management of librarians in the city of Tabriz. Methodology: This study is based on the purpose of the applied type and in terms of data collection method. The study population consists of 105 librarian universities in the city of Tabriz, where they have not been studied and carried out. Data collection device is a questionnaire consisting of four components and 21 questions. The validity of the questionnaire was verified by experts, and its reliability was measured by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0 / 82. Kolmogorov - Smirnov test and chi - squared tests were used to analyze the data.Results: The general mean of personal information management is librarian 17 / 3. The highest average activity in the librarian’s group is in collection (3 / 45) and the lowest in finding the information (3 / 04). According to chi - square test, gender between men and women (0 /105) level of personal information management level is not significant. Also, there is no significant difference between people with different ages (0/365) of personal information management level. But there is a significant difference between people in different educational levels (0/037) of personal information management.Conclusion: personal information management of librarians is at the middle level. There is no difference between man's personal information management and women, as well as in managing personal information of people with varying ages, but people at different levels of education have different personal information management status. Manuscript profile
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        5 - Transcription and Transliteration Standards Accepted By Specialists Of Linguistics And Librarianship And Information
        Narges Khatoun Azizian Fariborz Khosravi Sayed Aliakbar Famil Rohani mostefa assi
        Transcription and transliteration standards accepted by specialists of linguistics and librarianship and informationNarges Khatoun Azizian PhD. candidate, Knowledge and Information Science, Hamadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamadan, Iran. Nargesazizian5@gmail.com More
        Transcription and transliteration standards accepted by specialists of linguistics and librarianship and informationNarges Khatoun Azizian PhD. candidate, Knowledge and Information Science, Hamadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamadan, Iran. Nargesazizian5@gmail.comFariborz Khosravi, Associate Professor, National Library and Archives of Iran, (Corresponding author), fa.khosravi@gmail.comSeyyed Ali Akbar Familrouhani, Assistant Professor, Knowledge and Information Science, Hamadan Branch ,Islamic Azad University , Hamadan, Iran, sfamilrouhany@gmail.comSeyyed Mostafa Assi, Professor and Dean, Humanities and Cultural Studies Tehran, Iran mostafa.assi@gmail.com    Objective: Study was conducted to identify the standards of transcription and transliteration accepted by expert's linguistics and librarianship and information.Methodology: Research is practical in terms of object, survey in terms of how to collect information and descriptive in terms of type. The statistical population includes 31 professors of linguistics and specialists in documentation, cataloging of the resources of Islamology and Iranology, and experts of International Standard Serial Number center of the National Library. A checklist of tables of differentiating Persian characters into English according to transcription and transliteration standards that was made available to the statistical community.Results: According to the findings, the predominant writing form for transcription and transliteration is 16 Persian consonants, 20 English single phoneme consonants and two phonemes English consonants. According to standards, the statistical population has less dispersion in selecting English characters for short Persian vowels than English characters for long Persian vowels.Conclusion: The national standard of ISIR 1822 was proposed for transliterating Persian characters into English and the ISO 233-3 standard was proposed for transliteration of Persian characters into English. Moreover, for short Persian vowels in English, two standards, ISERI 1822 and ISO 233-3 were proposed. Regarding the choice of English long vowels / I, u / for Persian vowels (ای، او), it is 100% in accordance with the 1822 ISIR national standard. But the interviewees for the long vowel (آ) suggested the English letter / ā /, which corresponds to 7 transliteration standards and 1 transcription standard.Keywords: transliteration standards, transcription standards, transliteration, transcription Manuscript profile
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        6 - Identifying and Analyzing the Factors Affecting Content Marketing In The Foundation Of Public Libraries Of The Country
        hasti sohrabi seyedali asghar razavi safiyeh tahmasebi limooni atefeh zarei
        Objective: The Purpose of this study was to identify and analyzing the factors affecting content marketing in the public libraries of the country.Methodology: The research method is qualitative and exploratory. The statistical population of the study consisted of expert More
        Objective: The Purpose of this study was to identify and analyzing the factors affecting content marketing in the public libraries of the country.Methodology: The research method is qualitative and exploratory. The statistical population of the study consisted of experts who were fully acquainted with the subject of content marketing, and 17 professors from the departments of information science and knowledge, marketing management, information technology and Computer engineering and content production experts were selected by snowball sampling method Data collection tools include semi-structured interviews that are designed based on the findings of the qualitative analysis of the research. In this research, theme analysis has been used to identify the factors affecting content marketing and Delphi-fuzzy technique has been used to consensus the opinions of experts. Data were analyzed using SPSS24 and PLS3.8 software.Results: Findings obtained from theme analysis and Delphi-fuzzy technique showed that the main factors of content marketing in the public libraries of the country include 7 components of strategic planning, 6 components of content supply and production, 5 components of content distribution and publishing, 3 components content analysis, 2 components of pricing and sales were identified that among these, Content supply and production agent with impact factor of 0.931 has the most impact and in the first priority and content distribution and publishing factors with a coefficient of 0.917; Content analysis with a coefficient of 0.894; Strategic planning with a coefficient of 0.877 and pricing and sales with a coefficient of 0.642 are in the second to fifth.Conclusion: According to experts, the components of content marketing in the main components, respectively: strategic planning, content supply and production, content distribution and analysis, content analysis and pricing and sales affect content marketing. The results of the three-phase Delphi-phase study indicate the confirmation of the components discovered by the experts Manuscript profile
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        7 - Evaluating the Content of Literature Review In Research Articles In Two Fields Of Information Science And Knowledge And Sociology (2015- 2020)
        nahid shahveisi montazer Azarifar
        Objective: literature review is one of the main topics in research texts and articles, so that the compilation of research articles is done in line with the literature review and past works. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the content of the liter More
        Objective: literature review is one of the main topics in research texts and articles, so that the compilation of research articles is done in line with the literature review and past works. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the content of the literature review of research articles in the two disciplines of information science and Knowledge and sociology.Methodology: The present study was conducted by quantitative content analysis method, which has reviewed 60 research articles in the two fields of information science and Knowledge and sociology.Results: Research findings show, regarding the thematic relevance of literature reviews, the status of literature reviews Research articles are in a favorable situation, but Status of literature reviews in terms of attention to critical approach and analysis of literature reviews to better understand the subject are not in a good position. In terms of coherence and sufficient explanations of the literature review, the situation in the field of information science has been more successful than in the field of sociology. The results of Mann-Whitney test show that there is no significant difference in the cases except for the critical analysis of literature reviews.Conclusion: It seems Researchers do not pay enough attention to the content of the literature review, And only to preserve the appearance, literature reviews are given, which do not have much information load, In the event that if researchers take an in-depth look at previous studies and research, not only increases the amount of knowledge of the researcher, but also realizes the shortcomings and advantages of other research, and becomes familiar with the methods used in research, In this regard, the researcher can compile an ideal research and low defects take a step. Manuscript profile
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        8 - The Most Widely Used Components of Research Data Management (Case Study: Librarians of University of Medical Sciences Libraries in 7th. Zone in Iran)
        Mohammad Rahim Rasouli Azad Hassan Ghahnaviyeh Fahimeh Babalhavaeji nadjla hariri
        Objective: To determine the most widely used components of research data management from the perspective of librarians in university libraries of medical sciences in 7th.Zone of Iran.Methodology: In the present study, has used the exploratory mixed method (qualitative-q More
        Objective: To determine the most widely used components of research data management from the perspective of librarians in university libraries of medical sciences in 7th.Zone of Iran.Methodology: In the present study, has used the exploratory mixed method (qualitative-quantitative). Qualitative data were collected using a semi-structured Delphi-fuzzy questionnaire. In the quantitative section, with the categories-items resulting from the qualitative section in the form of a researcher-made questionnaire, the opinions of 127 librarians of the desired university libraries were collected. Quantitative data were analyzed by factor analysis and structural equation modeling technique with PLS software.Results: With the implementation of Delphi phases, among the twelve components identified, 6 widely used components in research data management in university libraries of medical sciences of 7th zones, including data infrastructure, respectively; Supervisory role; reuse; the budget; Organize; Have been). The average operating load of these 6 components in the academic libraries under study was higher than 0.6 (acceptable). Cronbach's alpha coefficient, reliability, composition and AVE value were equal to 0.5, so all the criteria in the hidden variables were in the acceptable range. The results of t-test and Friedman test in a small part showed that in the management of research data, librarians in the above categories have made a significant difference compared to other components.Conclusion: According to the librarians of medical libraries in 7th. Section of Iran, data infrastructure components, supervisory role, reuse, budget, organization and sharing are the most practical components in research data management in such libraries, which can be considered as Used a benchmark to conduct future research as well as to build a tool for related research. Manuscript profile
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        9 - Investigating teleworking in Public Libraries during the COVID-19 Pandemic
        zohreh mirhosseini Hossein Ali khodkar neda Fatehi zadeh
        Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the teleworking in public libraries from March 2018 onwards, simultaneously with the official announcement of the arrival of COVID-19 to identify the types of services regarding their strengths & weaknesses.Meth More
        Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the teleworking in public libraries from March 2018 onwards, simultaneously with the official announcement of the arrival of COVID-19 to identify the types of services regarding their strengths & weaknesses.Methodology: This research has a qualitative approach using content analysis. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview conducted through Whats­App. The population of this research is composed of heads and experts of library development, headquarters and general departments of public libraries, and has continued with the purposeful method and snowball sampling with 15 experts.Results: The findings of this study showed that although initially public libraries did not play a significant role in providing acceptable services to members, but over time and training librarians through cyberspace and the creation of a virtual network of librarians, could meet the information needs of the target community. Among teleworking services, the highest selection was related to cultural services with 32.8%. Among the strengths of teleworking, the creation of a virtual network had the highest selection with 39.1%, and among the weaknesses, unfamiliarity with teleworking with 24.5%. Among the solutions, the highest selection was related to planning to utilize the capacity and capability of employees during working hours with 23.3%.Conclusion: Public libraries have provided acceptable measures for members through a reorganization of the workforce, as well as the training of librarians and the issuance of some directives with a delay of several months.Keywords: Public Libraries, Tele Communication, Corona Virus (Covid-19), Iranian Public Libraries Foundation. Manuscript profile