نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Knowledge map is a knowledge management tool, through which information about the location of knowledge deployment and knowledge resources ranging from people possessing knowledge, documents, and databases is given to the organization's users. Knowledge map determines the expertise and knowledge required by people with the location of its deployment in the organization. The main purpose of this study was to map the knowledge and skills of the librarians of Astan Quds Razavi central library based on Max Weber's Ideal Type Model.
This study was of applied form and its procedure was descriptive-analytic survey. The population included 39 librarians working at the central library of Astan Quds Razavi with an Associate degree in Knowledge and information science and had a librarian position. Researcher’s made questionnaire was used as the data collection instrument with a return rate of 100 percent. In addition to the questionnaire, the checklist created by Shamsi (2012) was used by the researcher in order to collect data.
The findings showed that in the librarians’ general skills section, the highest mean was of administrative abilities such as office automation, text editing ability, etc. (mean 2.53), and language skills (mean 1.03), accounting (mean 0.55) and computer (mean 2.33). In examining the specialized knowledge and skills required of the librarians of different sections of the central library of Astan Quds Razavi, it was found that the librarians had the knowledge and skills needed to work in the study halls sections (3.89 on average), and the library (with an average of 3.89). Also found library circulation (4.2), membership (mean 3.77), cataloging (mean 3.42), collection (mean 3.25) and audiovisual mean (mean 3.79), and librarians have a knowledge vacuum for working in the digital library (2. 63 average) and stencils (1.68 average).
Findings from the Librarian Knowledge and Skills Index based on the Ideal Model showed that most librarians (22) were in Type 1 (High Knowledge and Skills). Also found that none of the librarians are in Type 2 (high knowledge and low skill), but 12 in Type 3 (low knowledge and high skill), and 5 in Type 4 (low knowledge and skill).
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