Background and Aim: The present study was conducted to determine health, educational, religious, economic and cultural information needs of nomadic women in Kohkilouyeh city and identifying the way they use resources, their barriers and problems in accessing information, their information priorities. Methods: This is applied survey conducted using a researcher-made questionnaire and oral inte...

Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the role of public libraries in the development of the local economy from the perspective of librarians working in public libraries of Kermanshah province in the current and desirable situation of public libraries. This study extracts the activities that the public library can do in the development of the local economy in the form of information and informat...

Introduction: this age is based on education and research, but librarians have the main role for teaching information literacy and using the references to the users. Librarians, themselves should have enough information literacy and skills in order to move information to users and give convenience information services to their users’ library. The objective of this research is the survey study o...

Background: Nowadays, it is essential to employ medical and clinical librarians to provide the required information for healthcare professionals and enhance accessibility to evidence based information in hospital libraries. Thus, this study aimed at assessing the medical librarians' employment status in hospital libraries in Tehran city in 2013. Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive ...

Purpose: The purpose of current study is to provide a comparative description of the managerial understanding of managers of university and public libraries in Tehran according to their academic field of study. Methodology: This is an applied research in terms of purpose and a descriptive-survey study in terms of data collection method. The research population includes all the employees (who n...

Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the status of rural libraries services in East Azarbaijan province and surveying villagers' viewpoints toward the libraries' effect on the reduction of social deprivation. Method: The current research is applied in terms of research objectives and descriptive in terms of data collection, which was carried out using a survey method. Data w...

The present study attempts to represent the views of librarians and teachers regarding the impact of the libraries operated by the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents (CIDCA) Kanon Parvaresh Fekry-e Koodakan va Nowjavanan on elevating the information literacy of students. Using a survey method, data were collected via a questionnaire. Forty-Four teachers and libraria...