Introduction: Regarding the wide spread of harshness and crime in society in spite of using penal policies shows that preventive methods can influence the reduction of crime commission more than penal methods. In the meantime, social and cultural institutions such as public libraries are acting in this regard. In this study, the role of public libraries in decreasing crime commission and rising social security is investigated. Methodology: This study is qualitative and its method is a Delphi technique. Study population included librarianship experts and people working at institutions related to the prevention of crime and social security. Sampling was done by judgmental or purposeful method and 50 subjects participated in the first stage of the study. Data was gathered through a Delphi technique in two stages and analyzed by using SPSS software in descriptive and inferential statistic methods. Findings: The members of Delphi panel determined 32 factors as important and effective factors of social security by public libraries. These factors divided into 7 groups including educational needs recognition, educational materials preparation, wanderer or mobile services, reading promotion, leisure times enrichment, social and cultural activities, and social security and capital. Conclusion: Findings revealed the importance of the role of public libraries in decreasing crime and increasing social security. The results of this study could be used in planning to raise the social security by public libraries.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) programs often encounter obstacles of technical, legal, financial and business nature. To develop a multifaceted view of ETD programs, the concept of Business model (BM) can be used. BM helps to grasp a detailed understanding of business feasibility and viability, which entails a broad spectrum of key factors and features the business. The existing BM ontologies and frameworks however are often generic and do not match the specific context of ETDs programs. The purpose of this paper is to fill the gap and identify and empirically evaluate a BM ontology that corresponds to the peculiarities of the ETDs context. In this study a multi-method approach is chosen. First, by means of a systematic literature review, different ontologies and frameworks in the literature were reviewed. The findings were used as an input to conduct a series of interviewing with National ETD (NETD) program’ s managers around the world. Based on the interviews, ETD-specific BM ontology is proposed, which consists of eight key components, including users, financial aspect, governance, content providers, content, services, technology, and cooperation. Business-driven challenges of ETD programs have not been studied by academic community properly. This research is the first attempts to study NETD programs through BM perspective and aims to investigate BM of such programs at ontology level. Since NETD programs are collecting, organizing, and making TDs available for their users, their viability is important. Defining of BM’ s key components of these programs allows their mangers and policy-makers to address business-driven needs and ensure viability and stability of the programs.

Purpose: This research explains the technological requirements for the policy of acquiring and protecting digital resources in the National Library of Iran from the stakeholders' point of view. The stakeholders form the policy's three pillars: texture, content, and process; in other words, they play an active role in the policy-making process.Method: This research was conducted in a combined process and three stages. In the first stage, the qualitative content analysis method of related documents and documents and the qualitative data analysis software MAXQDA were used to code the texts. At this stage, the research community included 29 Latin articles, 24 Persian articles and 17 national and international standards. After that, he benefited from the expert opinions of the specialist focal group. Then, the codes from the focus group meetings were combined with the codes from the texts, and 82 codes were finalized. In the following steps, the questionnaire to determine the priority of the codes was provided to the expert group of the Delphi panel using Pressline software, and their average was finalized.Findings: The findings in the category of technological requirements included four general axes. On the axis of preserving and disseminating digital national cultural heritage, three codes for setting up and managing a national system for protecting and accessing digital resources, using digital rights management technology, and using digital protection strategy. There are two codes on the axis of the application of digital standards: the application of the principles and functional requirements of records in digital administrative environments and the application of government security standards and requirements. In the axis of using user-friendly system facilities, the code of using adaptive technologies for access to the national digital system for people with sensory-motor impairments, and in the axis of using suitable infrastructural system facilities, two codes of the possibility of loading digital resources in the national digital system and analyzing the behaviour of users to improve services, they won the highest points in the national digital system.Conclusion: The results of this research show that in order to solve or reduce the challenges of protecting digital information resources, it is crucial to define and apply agreed standards between libraries or agreements with business organizations in the field of national heritage. The findings also underscore the importance of managing existing and future protection challenges by applying and using standards and suitable infrastructure system facilities comprehensively and in interaction with other similar systems in Iran. The high priority given to the codes of these two axes in the Delphi panel indicates their significance in creating a strong and reliable national system. The codes of these two access with more than 50% by creating a suitable and reliable platform, the portals of acquisition digital resources to the active form is launched and the digital heritage of Iran can be saved for the present and the future

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify ways of providing manuscripts in Iran, and to offer solutions for solving the problems in this area. Methodology: In this study, library method was used in order to studying previous researches and the methods and experiences of important libraries were used in the field of manuscripts. Findings: Buy, dedication, donation, transfer (Trust Fund) and preparing manuscripts digitally and exchange are the most important methods for providing manuscripts. War, plunder, transport, government neglect and courtiers, scattered manuscripts, lack of funding, presence of professional dealers and auctioneers, false advertising of foreigners and their deceived factors within the country and exploiting foreign speculators, political and administrative problems, evaluation problems and lack of expert are barriers and problems of providing. Establishing Canters for Manuscripts management, forming providing committees and donor's staff, activating ancient manuscripts Community and staff scan Services of manuscripts are proposed solutions to the current problems. Conclusion: Promoting people awareness especially collectors and dedication of all those involved in the governmental sector, public and private, to help preserve manuscripts collectors and incentive programs are important components to save the written heritage of the country.

The present paper has investigated the academic consortia formed in Iran and around the world for purchasing scientific information. It endeavored to design and suggest a suitable model for Iranian Academic Scientific Information Consortia using numerous mixes of qualitative and quantitative research methods that reflected the varied nature of the issue. Some of the methods used were action research, survey and content analysis. During content analysis stage, three main constructs were used, i.e."Need Assessment and Resource Evaluation", "Contracting and Legal Issues" and "Resource Sharing" which were extracted from the literature and the requirements, control method and government sponsors for each was documented as a sub-system. While emphasizing on sustainable system model most suitable for academic purchasing consortia for scientific information acquisitions, it is suggested that we should conduct further research in the areas of consortia strategic planning, and also by feasible studies in consortia- based consolidation of technical assets. The present research offers better applications in the higher education area.

Financial frictions inducted in the model is a new contribution to monetary economics. Herein, an analytical tool arranges monetary policymaking in the form of two steps procedure. In the first step, an appropriate amount of money supply should be assessed,and in the second step, that appropriate amount should be allocated to several sectors. The Central Bank obligates the step of assessment and entrusts to the Board of Professional Banks the allocating step,this way provides more efficiency since the professional banks in comparison to the central bank have more and better information about economic sectors. According to Arrowchr('39')s theorem, in allocating, rationality arises because collective decision-making happens in this step. The mathematical proposition about this policymaking narrates the dilemma of policymaking: two-step monetary policymaking makes better efficiency but worse rationality. The results show that Arrowchr('39')s theorem contributions prove that the proposition is correct and this paper presents three approaches to get out from this dilemma of policymaking.