survey of information technology development and it’s relation with organizational structure and management criterias (case study: libraries of shiraz university)

object: this research aimed to survey the aspects of information technology (it) and its effects on organizational structure and management in the libraries of shiraz university using qualitative and relationship method.   methods: to gather data, a questionnaire was prepared on based on 7 points likert scale and distributed among 64 staff and experts of the shiraz university libraries. then, data was analyzed in method of qualitative and inference by spss software.   result: the results show that it development has effect on organizational structure and specially decreases centralization. but the relationship between it development and management practices improvement was not confirmed. it development has the most effect on centralization’s decrease, training and personnel empowering and communications improvement. although there is not any relationship between it, evaluation performance and human resource selection.   originality: in a practical way, the present research studied the impact of pre-assumptions of it development and it’s relation to organizational structure and management functions in the libraries. thus, the results of this study can be used in libraries and other similar organizations and can remove possible weaknesses and strong existing strengthens.