Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Faeze Delghandi ¹
• Monire Pourejbari ²
• Maryam Salami ³

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science and Knowledge, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

² MSc, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

³ Associate Professor, Department of Information Science and Knowledge, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate the public roles of Mashhad in promoting the library's cultural identity and developing the social culture of users. This research is of a descriptive-survey type and is considered practical in terms of purpose. To achieve the mentioned goal, five sub-questions and one main question were considered. The statistical population of this research is all the members of Mashhad public libraries who were members in these libraries in 1402, the number of these members was 408,594, which was determined using Morgan's table and 400 people were determined by the available sampling method. The data collection tool is a questionnaire. The content of the questionnaire includes two sections of demographic and specialized questions, which consists of 38 questions. A five-point Likert scale was used to answer the questions. After collecting the necessary data and information through the questionnaire, data analysis was done on two descriptive and inferential levels using SPSS and EXCEL software. The results showed that the effectiveness of public libraries in Mashhad in promoting the cultural identity and developing the social culture of users is at the average level with a mean of 2.95 and a standard deviation of 0.8. Also, the average values of other questions evaluate the role of public libraries of Mashhad in expanding social culture with an average of 2.99, cultural and social education with an average of 3.01, and expanding cultural and social exchanges with an average of 2.97. Through the identified components, the impact of public libraries on the development of social culture, cultural and social education, and the development of cultural and social exchanges at the medium level, and the effectiveness of the librarians of these libraries in strengthening the cultural identity and the development of the social culture of the users were assessed as weak from the members' point of view. It is expected that the institution of public libraries, as the supervisor of these affairs, will contribute more efforts to the librarians.

Keywords

• Libraries
• Public Libraries of Mashhad
• Cultural Identity
• Cultural Development
• Social Culture Development

Main Subjects

• service quality