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The present study employed a content analysis method for analyzing the posts and comments in 85 individual and 31 collective weblogs published in Farsi on the subject of Library and information science. Studies showed that the average monthly postings in collective weblog are more than individual weblogs, while regarding the comments posted the reverse is true. The highest numbers of postings in both weblogs were authored, while the least postings belonged to translations for individual weblogs, and image for collective weblogs. The highest number of postings in individual weblogs was about miscellaneous topics while in collective weblogs, it was publishing. Most comments offered in individual weblogs concerned miscellaneous items and weblogs while in collective weblogs, ICT and information systems followed miscellaneous topics.

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Purpose: This study has been performed for content analysis of papers related to promotion of reading and children’s libraries which were published in specialized journals of library and information science (LIS) during 1999-2008.
Methodology: Content analysis was employed. The population under study included all LIS specialized journals which were seven.
Findings: Investigation of total number of papers published in LIS specialized journals indicated that, among these 1429 papers, 52 of them (6.3%) related to development of reading and 27 of them (8.1%) have studied children’s libraries; among these 79 papers, 75 of them (9.94%) were original papers while 4 of them (1.5%) were translation. Also, among the papers related to book reading and children’s libraries which were published in LIS specialized journals, 37 ones (8.46%) were research papers, 21 ones (6.26%) were analytic papers, 2 of them (5.2%) were review papers, and 19 ones (1.24%) were compilation.
Originality/Value: Paying attention to book reading and children’s libraries is among significant issues in LIS. Absence of research studies in such fields reveals little attention assigned to them. This justifies the present study.
 

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Purpose: The aim is suggesting new areas for the future research.
Methodology: 42 pieces of research divided  in2 categories (11 published as articles and 31 titles as M. A. and PhD thesis) were analyzed.
Findings: The selected researches have been categorized on 3 categories:
a)   The Content analysis of written fictions (34 researches)
b)   The Content analysis of translated fictions(4 researches)
c)   The Content analysis of poetry (4 researches).  Also about 24 researches study on a special area in children written fictions.
Originality/Value: content analysis can be a showcase of all studies that have been performed in the past. The survey of the role and the situation of the different university courses, kind of universities (such as government and nongovernment universities), and the role of persons who are affecting and leading MA and PhD  thesis, are the most important attributions of this study. 
 

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Purpose: The objective of this research is to identify the occurrence rate , publication style and type of topics related to library and information science that were found in widely read newspapers in 1390 (2011).
Methodology: In this research, the content analysis was used in order to investigate library and information science topics in widely read Iranian newspapers. The The statistical subject matter used consisted of all widely read newspapers in Iran in 1390 (2011). The samples were selected in two stages: At first, ten popular widely read newspapers were selected through a survey of 100 persons. Then, for each newspaper title, two statistical weeks were determined, one for the first six months of the year and other for the second six month of the year.
Findings: The findings that resulted from the content analysis of 120 issues of widely read Iranian newspapers published in 1390 (2011) indicated that topics related to library and information science had been mostly covered by the “Jam’e Jam” and “Ettela’at” newspapers. Furthermore, the findings showed that most of the content related to the field of library and information science had been presented in a matter-of-fact, journalistic style. A major part of the related content displayed a reactive and event-oriented nature. In addition, according to the findings of this study, the distribution of concepts and issues related to the fields of  "librarianship" and "information science" in the newspapers has not been properly managed, with a high percentage of the related content being devoted to library events.
Originality/Value: There is no evidence within the literature on subject analysis of  topics related to library and information science in widely read Iranian newspapers. Accordingly, this research work can provide a clear picture of topics related to library and information science in widely read newspapers. Furthermore, the results of this study can help the officials and planners of the newspapers concerned to consider the balance of reflecting different topics in their publications.
 

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine 18 issues of the journal of Information Science and Public Libraries.
Methodology: This is a survey- descriptive study with a bibliometric approach. Citation analysis,  one of the most popular bibliometric techniques, is used. The research population includes 18 issues of the Journal of Information Science and Public Libraries from the beginning of autumn 2008 (1387) to the end of winter 2011 (1391).
Findings: The results show the low level of participation by women, but the high level of male participation, in the writing of papers. Public universities, including Tehran University, have the largest share of scientific collaboration with the journal. In terms of the authors' fields, the collaboration of experts in the disciplines of "Library and Information Science" and Management was greater than that of experts from other fields of study. The average number of articles published in each issue of the journal was 7.7. Publication delays in the acceptance of  papers indicate that the highest number of papers was accepted by the Journal in 2-3 months. Most of the journal's papers were scholarly research papers.  Citing of the English language materials and of the papers occurred more than citing of other types of materials.
Originality/Value: The results of citation and bibliometric studies could be important for a range of audiences, including readers, authors, librarians and journal editorials, as these sorts of studies can show a clear picture of the journal function.
 

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 Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the level of specialization of Iranian journals in the field of library and information science. By specialization, we mean whether the topics of articles published in each journal are concentrated around specific subjects

Methodology: Subject analysis was done on 894 articles published between 2008 and 2012 based on LISA subject categories

Findings: The findings showed that 833 (93.17 %) of articles published in LIS journals were related to LIS fields and the rest (61 articles6.82%) were not related. In most of journals, there is no link between the title of the journal and its special subject. Only a few of the journals have focused subject areas and the rest publish articles on a wide range of disperse topics.

Originality: This study could be conducted to improve the behavioral pattern of researchers and the quality of LIS journals

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Purpose: Audio books have a special stand in the publishing industry. Publishers around the world produce audio books with different criterions and standards. This study aimed to identify and introduce the most important criterions for evaluation and production of audio books from the producers' point of view.
Methodology: this study was performed with qualitative content analysis of interviews that transitionally done with seven producers of audio books in Tehran. A purposeful sample of the producers was selected and have been conducted a deep and semi-structured interview with them. Initial codes were extracted after data analysis and were monitored, evaluated, and recognized in a multi-stage process. Finally, we obtained four major categories and 21 subcategories of criterions.
Findings: The results of this study pointed that most important production and evaluation criterions of audio books from the producers' point of view were placed in four major categories of “content”, “presentation”, “technical”, and “other criterions”. in total, 21 sub-categories have been extracted: Audience, using motivation, selection criteria, subject, copyright, edition, hardware, software, human resources, audio quality and features, publication format, distribution, narration, music, fractionation and naming, , searchable, bibliographic information, advantages, disadvantages, common causes, and production problems.
Originality/Value: This study identified production and evaluation criteria of audio books from the producers' point of view for the first time in Iran. Participants proposed examples of criteria that can increase the quality of audio books.
 

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Purpose: This research aims to analyze all dissertations founded by the Iran Public Libraries Foundation during years between 2000 -2014 to extract solutions offered by researchers about attracting people to the public libraries.
Methodology: I used qualitative content analysis with inductive approach. Thematic analysis is the main way in this method. The research population was included 53 dissertations founded by the Iran Public Libraries Foundation. Main categories of user attraction procedures extracted classified and described.
Findings: Solutions proposed to attract people to public libraries classified in two main categories: 1) soft aspects (Librarians) with five categories and 34 sub-categories and 2) hard aspects (organizational structure) with eight categories and 40 sub-categories. In the soft section, the main categories were services, availability, personal skills, marketing and promotion of services and need assessment. In the hard side, the main categories were education, entrepreneurship, organizational rules and regulations, collection development, interior design of libraries, equipment, location, and technology infrastructure.
Originality/Value: This thematic analysis can be regarded as an effort to show the core concepts of founded dissertations and an emphasis on hard aspects of the problem because of its frequency, detail and richness.
 

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Purpose: This study aims to present a picture of the fundamental issues of Knowledge and Information Science (KIS) education in Iran
Methods: Uses systematic review, content analysis and co-word analysis. Overall, 194 articles were retrieved and analyzed.
Findings: Findings are presented in 17 categories. These include Pathology, seeking a model for learning, searching for specific theory or model for education, curriculum content, training history, the names given recently to the field vs job positions, the failed School of Knowledge and Information Science at the University of Tehran, specialization in the field, foreseeing, attitudes towards the discipline, employment & job market, training & education needs, quality assessment & accreditation, distance learning, ICT & education, educational resources, and other issues.
Originality/value: The dynamics of KIS Education depends on internal and external key driving forces. Findings showed that researchers pay less attention to external driving forces influencing KIS education. This is for the first time that a picture of the most important research subjects of KIS education in Iran is presented

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Purpose: To analyze the fiction components of the children’s storybooks of the age group C published during 2010-2015.
Method: This is an applied research in terms of purpose which has been conducted using a survey method of content analysis with a descriptive approach. The statistical population of the research consisted of all the children’s books of the age group "C" published during 2010-2015 which were equal to 5787 titles and 100 of them were selected as the research sample using the systematic random sampling method. The data collection tool was a researcher-made checklist that included the narrative elements to be analyzed. The face validity of the checklist was examined and confirmed by several specialists in the field of children's literature. Data were analyzed at a descriptive level including statistical indicators of frequency and frequency percentage and displayed in the form of frequency distribution tables.
Findings: The results showed that most of the characters in the books reviewed were human and stories were narrated in a forward-looking manner based on a historical order. Furthermore, there was less use of symbolism and the theme of most works was more of the explicit kind. In addition, visualization and imagery were the most frequent elements in the style of stories.
Originality/value: Attracting children and young adults to reading storybooks has an important role in shaping their personality, while the role of effective use of the elements of story in creating attractive and influential works is indisputable. It was found out in the present study that some of these elements, such as dynamic personality, symbolism, and the use of different tones, have received lesser attention from the authors of the storybooks for the age group of “C”. Furthermore, the stories written for this age group has not been studied so far from this point of view.

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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to determine the categories and issues that were considered by national policymakers in the field of public libraries of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This study seeks to identify those issues and problems for which policymakers have been trying to find solutions by analyzing the content of policy documents.
Method: This research is a qualitative research that has been conducted by using the content analysis method. The research population includes the text of policies, laws and regulations adopted by public policy makers in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In this regard, nine important provisions specifically addressing public libraries are examined and analyzed. These laws and regulations include "the Establishment and Administration of Public Libraries Law", "the Executive Regulations of the Establishment and Administration of Public Libraries Law", "the decision to add the Iran Public Libraries Foundation to the list of institutions subject to paragraph "b" of Article (11) of National Recruitment Law", "Amendment of the Executive Regulations of the Establishment and Administration of Public Libraries Law", " Document of Beneficial Reading Movement", "beneficiary of Iran Public Libraries Foundation from the individual and legal persons as funds subject to article (172) of the Amendment of Direct Taxes Law approved in 1992", "the deduction from the total credits related to municipals revenues and payment to the Iran Public Libraries Foundation by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance (Treasury of the Country)", "article 64 of the Law on Adding Some Articles to Regulation of Part of Government Financial Regulations Law (2)", "the approval of Public Culture Council of the country regarding the promotion of book and book reading culture". MAXQDA qualitative data analysis software was used for coding the research data. Furthermore, in order to ensure the reliability of this study, validity, reliability, transferability and verifiability criteria were used.
Findings: The research findings indicated that in the studied documents policies have been made for five issues including "Reading Promotion policies", "Management of Financial and Administrative Affairs of Public Libraries of the Country", "Construction and Development of Public Libraries of the Country", "Management of Library Services" "and "designation of actors in the public libraries in Iran". Examination of the documents showed that the issue of reading promotion policies were taken into consideration in the "Document of Beneficial Reading Movement" and the "Sanctioned regulation of Iran's Public Culture Council regarding the promotion of book and book reading culture" and many actors and stakeholders have been taken into account by policymakers in these documents. The three remained issues have been covered by other Laws and regulation. Furthermore, the role of various actors and stakeholders in public libraries was reviewed and classified in accordance with the provisions of the sanctioned laws and regulation. Based on the analysis, nine groups of actors and stakeholders were identified, including public library administrators, financial resource providers, users, community, employees, government, media, NGOs, and other stakeholders.
Originality/value: This research is the first to examine the issues covered in the national policy documents of public libraries in Iran. Furthermore, the value of this study lies in that it explains the issues of interest to policymakers and public library policymaking institutions in the past as well as it helps to identify the gaps of national policymaking on public libraries too.

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Purpose: Since nowadays public libraries are considered lifelong learning centers, these centers must have the required standards and conditions to support lifelong learning in order that they could help society members to achieve their personal and professional learning more effectively. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop and provide a mechanism to support lifelong learning in public libraries. Due to the lack of practical guidelines for supporting lifelong learning in Iranian public libraries, the present study addresses the existing gap.
Method: In the present research, the mixed method was used. To do so, an inductive content analysis was first used to present a framework for supporting lifelong learning in Iran public libraries. The statistical population of this section of research included all related articles indexed in the databases of Proquest, Springer, Science Direct, Emerald, Wiley, Ebsco, Sage, Eric, LISA, and Google Scholar, as well as documents, strategic plans, and websites of public libraries all around the world. At this stage, 71 sources were purposefully selected and analyzed in order to identify the dimensions and components of lifelong learning support through the world public libraries. In the second section of the research, the internet survey research method was used to validate the proposed framework. The statistical population of this section consisted of all specialists in Educational Science/Knowledge and Information Science who had academic or professional experience in the area of lifelong learning.18 individuals of this population were selected purposefully as the sample of the study. A researcher-made evaluation questionnaire was used for data collection. The validity of the evaluation questionnaire was verified by 5 persons who were expert in Educational Sciences/Knowledge and Information Science. Furthermore, the inter-rater consistency was used to measure the reliability of the questionnaire, which yielded the acceptable value of 0.86. Finally, Data were analyzed using the median and sign test.
Findings: Using the findings resulting from global experiences and considering the Iranian Public Library's vision, a framework including vision, mission, values, and strategies was presented in order to support lifelong learning in Iranian public libraries. This framework was evaluated by experts, and the results of the evaluation showed that the proposed framework is comprehensive as well as suitable for implementation of lifelong learning in Iranian public libraries.
Originality/value: Despite the emphasis of the Iran's high-level policy documents on the role of public libraries in lifelong learning, no serious efforts thus far have been made to support lifelong learning in Iranian public libraries. The framework proposed in this research can help Iranian public libraries to play a more effective role in building a lifelong learning community. Furthermore, this framework and the resulting executive actions can change the future of public libraries' business and services and impact on its current mechanisms and structure.

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Purpose: Infographics are considered a powerful communication and information medium in human-information interaction as well as in successful transmission of messages. The aim of the present study is to arrive at a model or framework based on the content of infographics published about reading, to discover and identify their content and also to introduce the capabilities and attractiveness of infographics as an interactive medium. It seeks to examine for whom and for what purpose these media are published, what their content is and what effects the reading infographics have on the target audience.
Method: The present study is a qualitative one in which the qualitative content analysis method was used. The study population consists of 30 reading infographics published on the Pinterest website. All infographics were transferred to MAXQDA2020 software and then the content coding of each infographic began. These codes were then analyzed and modeled. Using the visualization package of the above-mentioned software and drawing the word cloud, various theoretical models of the generated codes as well as hierarchical ones were built to form the table of components and categories. Finally, the target audience, content and role of the infographics in promoting reading were identified.
Findings: Various models and frameworks can be built based on the research findings. The first model is the target audience model, in the sense that the audience of these media were primarily parents. Since the aim of these infographics is to promote reading among children, they have targeted parents as their audience. The second model can be drawn according to the content of the infographics. The content of these infographics is very diverse and a variety of models can be built according to it. Reading benefits, reasons to read, boys' reading habits, reading strategies for the children, fast reading strategies, reading levels, reading in the new age, the strategy of reading aloud books to encourage a child to read, ways to encourage reading, benefits of reading for the pleasure, promoting and encouraging reading among children and adolescents, reading benefits for the brain, and the importance of and reasons for reading and reading aloud books were among the most important topics addressed by these infographics. The third model is built on the role and influence of the infographics. The role of these media can be categorized as: informative, directive, notifying, promoting and propagandistic.
Originality/value: The findings indicated that the infographics published in the field of reading are replete with rich and useful information providing guidance to parents in encouraging children to read. Furthermore, the present study was the first to examine the content of infographics as emerging and influential media in Iran and abroad. It focused on the subject of infographics from the perspective of the communication sciences (Harold Lasswell's model). Using the present research approach, one is able to carry out various studies in different fields as well as to analyze infographics with other topics by using the content analysis method and other communication models.

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