چکیده:
The process of collection development, collection generating and obtaining information is of basic debates in libraries and information centers which a lot of articles have been written about the methods of collection development of information as well as the application of information technology, accordingly, to this day. This article, as opposed to other articles, which are about the prevailing methods of collection development and also the application of information technology in collection of libraries development and information centers, analyses the role of knowledge management, corporate culture, extension of relations as well as the development of human resources and their social role in the expansion of information collection; and finally, some scientific and studious centers and universities in Iran which started their collection of information development and their knowledge concerning the use of knowledge management and more noticing the human resources, are presented.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Social Role of Users in Collection Development of Library and Information Centers Fatemeh Nooshinfard Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University, Dept.
But collection development needs knowledge management and more importantly requires the attention to human resources and extension of corporate culture among the users society in order to make them feel responsible and have a direct role in collection expansion through sharing their information and knowledge and being active in producing more knowledge and science, before it needs information technology.
In order to gain this importance, one of the most important sections in a university which can have an important role in increasing the quality level of university, are libraries and information centers; the more active and pioneer they are in collection development of information the more qualitative services they can provide.
com (Corresponding author) Fatemeh Nooshinfard; Ali Haji Shamsaei; Alireza Tousi But what is definite is that the covert knowledge of libraries and information centers’ users’ society as one of the greatest and richest source of information and knowledge in collection development in universities in Iran is neglected.
Consequently, universities try to collect their information in order to expand the information collection of libraries and information centers to provide better services through the use of information technology, knowledge management and extension of corporate culture and more noticing the human recourses and encouraging each of their users.
Library collection development is the process of meeting the information needs of the people (a service population) in a timely and economical manner using information resources locally held, as well as from other organizations.