Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Mehdi Mehregan Jam ¹
• Faeze Delghandi ²
• Maryam Salami ³

¹ M.SC OF INFORMATION SCIENECE AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

² Assistant Professor

³ Assistant Professor of PNU

Abstract

Purpose: The present research was conducted with the aim of investigating the impact of personal information management on knowledge sharing with the mediating role of knowledge system commitment (case study: librarians of Mashhad public libraries).Methodology: The current research is a descriptive-correlation survey. The statistical population includes all 112 active librarians in the public libraries of Mashhad, and the statistical sample of 86 people was determined by using the sample size table of Kargesi Morgan. The research tool is a questionnaire. By distributing questionnaires among librarians, 83 questionnaires were completed and received.
Findings: To analyze the data from descriptive statistics and from inferential statistics (the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistical test to determine the normality of the data distribution, from the regression test for the effect of independent variable factors on knowledge sharing, from the Sobel test to measure the effect of the mediating role Knowledge system commitment in the relationship between (personal information management and knowledge sharing) and Friedman's test was used to rank the components
Conclusion: The results of the present study indicate that the factors of personal information management (transparency of information, preventive information and formality of information) have had an impact on librarians' knowledge sharing with the mediating role of knowledge system commitment in public libraries of Mashhad. Based on the Friedman test, the average ranks of each variable were in order (the effect of preventive system commitment on knowledge sharing, the formality of information on librarians' knowledge sharing) from the highest effect to the lowest effect.

Keywords

• knowledge sharing: knowledge system commitment
• : personal information management
• : information transparency: public libraries of Mashhad

Main Subjects

• knowledge sharing