background: awareness about the actual information needs is a necessity in correct decision making for developing or improvement of information centers. this study aimed on investigating the information needs of students and university professors of birjand university of medical sciences. methods: in this descriptive-analytical study conducted in 2009, 422 students were selected based on system...

the principal goal of this research is the feasibility study of presentation electronic reference services in such centers. in this research, we apply measuring methods in different stages. through this way, we attempt to focus on special governmental information centers in tehran which use internet for acquisition and dissemination of information and also for reference services, methods of col...

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...

this study attempts to investigate the information-seeking behavior of specialists, residents and interns at the hospitals of ahvaz university of medical sciences, iran. the data were collected through a questionnaire completed by 114 respondents. the research findings revealed that the three groups used informal channels (i.e. conferences) in order to obtain specific as well as general informa...

The objective of this study was to describe U.S. cow-calf producer access and use technology for managing cattle health production records (CHPR). We anonymously surveyed 14,294 producers. Multivariable logistic regression by manual forward variable selection used test demographic factors association with CHPR-keeping outcomes. Smartphones, computers, internet were available 85.2%, 92.9%, 88.7%...