Cost- benefit analysis of information resources of Islamic Azad University- Kermanshah Branch

Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies

Saeid Ghaffari ¹ , Sepide Sedighi far ²

1 - Faculty member of PNU Qom
2 - Master of Library and Information

Received: 2011-08-27 Accepted : 2012-08-14 Published : 2012-11-21

Keywords: Information resources, library, cost - benefit, Kermanshah Azad university,

Abstract :

Purpose: The basic purpose of this study is analyzing the cost - benefit information resources of Central Library of Kermanshah Azad University on the year 1388. Research method: Current study has been done through a survey with analytical approach. The target society in this study included seven sources of information (Internet, on line  information databases, CD Rom information databases, electronic journals, multimedia features, printed books and printed periodicals) exist in the library. In order to collect data, the researcher made a questionnaire with Likert range and distributed between 71 faculty members , staffs and graduate students. For analyzing data, the descriptive and inferential statistics were used by using SPSS software. In order to analyze the research questions and hypotheses, one sample T-test, ANOVA (F Fisher) and Pearson correlation coefficient were used. Findings: The research results with 95 percent of confidence showed that the available resources in the mentioned library are greatly beneficial to users and their information needs have been resolved. Between the seven mentioned information sources, the most use has been carried out of printed books and the Internet and the most application of existing resources is for publishing scientific articles. Among the potential users community of information resources (8700 people) , based on any person of the users community use library on the year 1388 , The Internet with 2.4 persons had the most use and multimedia with 0.38 person had the lowest use. Also, the survey results revealed that the Internet with 8032 Rials had the most cost - benefit and printed books with 96,386 Rials  had the lowest cost - benefit . Conclusion: Finally with 95 percent of confidence have revealed between information resources cost and beneficial aspect of these resources in 1388 is a significant relation and with regard to the correlation coefficient value (0.924) can be concluded this type of relationship is direct and positive.          

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