objectives: the aim of this research was to study information seeking behavior and the pattern of reading behavior of faculty members of university of social welfare & rehabilitation sciences in using printed and electronic resources. methods: the descriptive research method was a survey method. the research was implemented by using an organized questionnaire which was distributed among the sta...

the purpose of this study is to identify challenges of digital resources in academic libraries of kerman province. research methodology is descriptive- survey, a questionnaire is used for gathering data. research sample includes 41 librarians of kerman libraries and their managers. results show that economic challenges, in order, are:  infrastructures and equipment purchasing, printed and digit...

purpose: the purpose of this paper is to determine the unimarc &marc21capabilities; for persian printed books and electronic resources cataloguing along with comparing the rate of their adaptation with persian cataloguing rules. the emphasis of this paper is on printed books and electronic resources. methodology: firstly, all the unimarc &marc21; fields that were related to printed books and el...

the concept of evidence based medicine (ebm) involves a systematic approach for integration of best available research evidence into medical decision making for physicians, medical trainees and researchers. the ebm process includes five essential steps: formulating the questions, searching for evidence, appraising the evidence, and applying and evaluating the results (1). in a descriptive study...

Research papers usually contain a significant number of links to other resources. For the most part, they reference other printed research papers, but there are also a non-trivial number of links to resources on the World Wide Web. Unlike printed research papers, references to WWW resources may become invalid after time. The server containing the page may be taken offline, be temporarily unavai...

Objectives: The aim of this research was to study information seeking behavior and the pattern of reading behavior of faculty members of University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences in using printed and electronic resources. Methods: The descriptive research method was a survey method. The research was implemented by using an organized questionnaire which was distributed among the ...

The concept of evidence based medicine (EBM)involves a systematic approach for integrationof best available research evidence into medicaldecision making for physicians, medical traineesand researchers. The EBM process includes fiveessential steps: formulating the questions, searchingfor evidence, appraising the evidence, and applyingand evaluating the results (1). In a descriptive study,the da...

This paper describes a unique robotics project, Comprehensive Access to Printed Materials (CAPM), within the context of libraries. As libraries provide a growing array of digital library services and resources, they continue to acquire large quantities of printed material. This combined pressure of providing electronic and print-based resources and services has led to severe space constraints f...

the present research provides quantitative and descriptive data of the information service capabilities available at thehran university libraries. these include access to information resources, availability of various indexes, printed catalogs, computer terminals, access modes, working hours, membership requirements, borrowing pattens. the findings presented in form of tables, were analyzed bas...