Purpose – The prevalence of virtual learning environments (VLEs) in higher education is well-documented and has been promoted in the UK by government-funded projects, but there has been little empirical research on the level of involvement of subject librarians with VLEs. The survey was designed to investigate how VLEs are affecting the work of subject librarians and to examine factors influenc...

objective: to investigate the self-efficacy status of librarians in ferdowsi university of mashhad and mashhad university of medical sciences and its relationship with their information literacy skills.methodology: eighty people was chosen by nonproportional stratified random sampling as the final sample from the population. assessment tool was self- made questionnaire. the data has been analyz...

In a dynamic, information and technology-driven society, librarians can create new roles by assessing changes in their environment, the potential effect and ways to reposition themselves. Scenario building, literature reviews, situation analysis, speculation and forecasting may be used. Librarians have a good idea of what they can offer, but are often unable to reposition themselves in time. Re...

In recent years, librarianship has been increasingly recognized as a critical component of inter-professional healthcare education. This manuscript describes how innovative coordination between libraries and university healthcare programs can remove the barriers to scholarship for graduate students who enroll in distance education (DE) programs. The authors examined the perceived impact of libr...

knowledge management is a process that has been recently generated as an activity which is very important in the dynamic environment, and in the competitive scene. we believe that km is a process which its organizational knowledge is created from the individual knowledge of the members of the organization. the relevant studies have indicated that organizing based on work teams could be consider...