كليدواژه :
Information sciences , library , روانشناسي , كتابداري , evaluation , كارشناسي ارشد , وضعيت علمي , اطلاع رساني
چكيده لاتين :
The Present research has been conducted to evaluate the academic status of the graduate Program of library and information sciences at Tarbiyat Modares University, Tehran University, and Iran University of Medical Sciences. The data collection was done through two different questionnaires. To this end, 26 questionnaires were handed out to the instructors and three questionnaires were also distributed among the heads of three educational departments of library sciences. The indices for bibliography of library sciences, the paper references of a book,library, library sciences, and bibliography of information and communication were cheated in order to gather data on the books and papers which had been published up to March 1995 in the field of library and information sciences. The data was then analyzed thoroughly with respect to the following parameters.
The educational records of the instructors of the departments studied show that over 50% of them had begun teaching after the Islamic Revolution of Iran or, in other words, after the adoption of the Present Program)
1-The general specifications,program and syllabus of the non-continuous graduate program of library and information sciences. adopted by the supreme council of programming of the Ministry of the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education, 1986.
Regarding the research records of the instructors,i.e. authoring and/or translating books,publishing papers, and conducting research projects, their share is insignificant compared to all the research and academic work fulfilled in the field of library and information sciences. Out of an overall number of 543 books and 1362 papers on library and information sciences published in Iran, only 49 (approximately 9%) and 152 (roughly 11%) have been written and/or translated by the instructors of these departments, respectively.
This study reveals that the resources and facilities of the departments are greaty dependent on the libraries of their mother universities and other big libraries. None of the three universities enjoys adequate resources, facilities, and tools for teaching practical courses, particularly in the programs of academic and information sciences. The conclusion of this study demonstrates that the library and information sciences departments require an overall reassessment of their programs and facilities and a reinforcement of their faculty members both in terms of quantity and quality.
