Background: Educational role is one of the most important roles of librarians, which has taken on wider dimensions. A review of the literature on the training programs provided by librarians revealed an evolution of the ideas and trends in this area. This systematic review aimed at providing a clear image of the available educational programs, their target groups, and the way they are performed...

Academic librarians seeking to assess information literacy skills often focus on testing as a primary means of evaluation. Educators have long recognized the limitations of tests, and these limitations cause many educators to prefer rubric assessment to test-based approaches to evaluation. In contrast, many academic librarians are unfamiliar with the benefits of rubrics. Those librarians who ha...

the access to health information for all people is the fundamental goal of the world health organization (who). it comes tr ue when both health professionals and patients as beneficiaries have access to health information. medical librarians play an important role in facilitating access to health information, and this role should be in the context and framework of scientific principles. the pri...

abstract: objective: the present paper examines the status and station of librarian during the saffavid era. to better illustrate it explores the life and works of one of these librarians, mirza mohammad moghim-e-ketabdar, who lived under shah abbas the great. method: a descriptive analysis of library materials was performed. findings: in past librarians enjoyed a high station and reputation du...

introduction: the scientific, technical, economic and social development of a society is closely connected to the amount of information produced by its managers, researcher and scholars. in this study, the necessity of the librarians and medical informants' cooperation in the approved research plans of iums was investigated. methods and materials: it was a descriptive study in which the partici...

Reference librarians, specifically those working in academic health sciences environments, have expanded their roles and taken on new and unique responsibilities. While librarians at The George Washington University's Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library continue to provide traditional reference services, they have gone beyond their comfort zone in many cases to become involved in activities that...

The editorial board recently realized that it needed additional editors and associate to process the number of papers submitted IEEE Journal Emerging Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE). Because this, would like recognize appointments following volunteers their corresponding positions:

Participation from music librarians has been sparse in the first six ISMIR conferences, despite many potential areas of common interest. This paper makes an argument for the benefit to both the library and Music IR communities of increased representation of librarians at ISMIR. An analysis of conference programs and primary publications of two music library organizations to determine topics fro...