Firoozeh Zare Farashbandi, Faezeh Amini, Roya Kelishadi, Alireza Rahimi. Associate Professor of Department of Medical Librarianship and Information Science, Health Information Technology Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; MSc of Medical Librarianship and Information Science, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences...

“You don’t look like a librarian” is a phrase we often hear in the astronomy department or observatory library. Astronomy librarians are a breed apart, and are taking on new and non-traditional roles as information technology evolves. This talk will explore the future of librarians and librarianship through the lens of some of the recent talks given at the sixth “Libraries and Information Servi...

this research aims at investigating the amount of the application of servant leadership component in the libraries of isfahan state universities. the research method is descriptive survey study and the study population consists of managers and librarians of isfahan state universities in 2009-2010.the sample was estimated 111 by using cochran's formula. the random stratified sampling method was ...

A NUMBER OF FACTORS have converged to compel a substantial reassessment of the educational requirements for library-orien ted careers in information management. These factors include: the role of technology and the convergence of domains that it has produced, the growth of special library and corporate employment, the growth of information industry employment, and the increased mobility of info...

Recent studies on low morale in academic libraries reveal impacts workplace health and organizational culture concerns about leadership training development. Additionally, established research library dysfunction emotional labor librarianship, along with emerging scholarship incivility librarian-patron interactions, highlight a growing area of practice for information professionals. This qualit...

the importance of indexing of articles in medical journals with standard descriptors s.j. ghazi-mirsaeid1, f. masoudi2 received: 02/01/2017             sent for revision: 05/01/2017              received revised manuscript: 14/01/2017         accepted: 18/01/2017 today, abstracts and keywords are one of the requirements of writing each article. keywords will be added at the end of the abstract ...

This article examines the project of Jesse Hauk Shera (1903–82), carried out originally in association with his colleague Margaret Egan, of formulating an epistemological foundation for a library science in which bibliography, librarianship, and the then newly emerging ideas about documentation would be integrated. The scholarly orientation and research agenda of the University of Chicago’s Gra...

Our journal is mostly about articles. We consider around a hundred article manuscripts a year, and from those submissions , we select about thirty—we hope the best—for publication. These peer reviewed articles, running 3,000 to 6,000 words in length, usually report the research results of a focused study on a particular process, procedure, or policy stance in academic librarianship. In this cur...

The meaning of the library as a social institution has changed over time. library’s role in human progress and generation knowledge is alluded to briefly by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and, more frequently, Shoghi Effendi. These references have historical precedents but are an expression unique ontological epistemological commitments Bahá’u’lláh’s vision emerging global civilization. This paper compares conce...

This article revisits Rosemary DuMont’s 1986 articles on Black librarianship and racial attitudes in LIS. The first part addresses missing or limited coverage the library schools at five historically colleges universities: Alabama A&M University, Clark Atlanta University of District Columbia, Hampton North Carolina Central University. second provides examples biases accreditation as it rela...