the aim of this study is to investigate competency requirements of iranian public librarians in library educational departments and working places. a group of 72 people from public libraries answered to questions. questions cover all areas of library performances. the results show that the traditional competencies such as cataloging, management of collections, information resources and acquisit...

introduction: over the last decade, the role of clinical librarians in assisting general practitioners to provide better health care has been proved. rapid progress in telecommunication technology has emerged this question. could clinical librarians be able to assist general practitioners working in rural and remote areas through information and communication technologies? this project sought t...

With qualitative research apparently threatened by big data, researchers, editors, educators, librarians, and publishers need to understand the mix of methods used in their field guide decision making. In response, this study assesses prevalence citation impact academic between 1996 2019 that reports one four common gather data: interviews, focus groups, case studies, ethnography. minor excepti...

objective: in the colophon of every manuscript there is a date which indicates of the time when it has been written. sometimes these colophon dates change into another date through a slight manipulation. sometimes some dates have the potential of changing into another date, either because of passage of time or due to the scribe’s method of writing. this issue creates a problem for cataloguers, ...

An essential aspect of science is a community of scholars cooperating and competing in the pursuit of common goals. A critical component of this community is the common language of and the universal standards for scholarly citation, credit attribution, and the location and retrieval of articles and books. We propose a similar universal standard for citing quantitative data that retains the adva...

practiced in various journals, peer reviewing is undoubtedly the core of science (as opposed to non-science ) production in all disciplines, particularly in medical sciences due to their direct and immediate effect on human health. publication provides the chance for bits of knowledge to get integrated into the body of global knowledge and to share it with other researchers ( 1 ). this involves...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the contextual conditions of creativity based on Oldham Model among the librarians of public libraries of Fars province. Design/methodology/approach: The research uses a survey method. The study population was librarians of public libraries in Fars province. The data collection instrument was questionnaire. For data analysis, univariate T test and covaria...