title: Librarians' Role in Development and Achievement of Central Library Users' Information Literacy (a Case Study: Iran).
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Due to the development of technologies, communications, databases and information resource varieties in today's information age, our various social, economic, cultural and political needs cannot be fulfilled by relying merely on past knowledge and skills as done previously. Information literacy (IL) as a set of necessary skills for all of us is an effective way of treating new technologies and their effective application in our lives. The study aimed to survey the library users' views in the Central Library of Babol University of Medical Sciences (The Library), Iran, on the role and influences of librarians on their IL development and improvement.
  
  
  METHODS
  This analytical survey used a researcher-made questionnaire for data collection. Research population consisted of all users referring Information Unit of The Library during 22 September - 20 December 2010. Of them, 150 users participating in at least 5 workshops held by The Library were selected as the study sample.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Based on the findings, 52.7 percent of the subjects rated the influence of the librarians on their IL development much and very much. 44.7 percent claimed that they more acquired IL skills from librarians rather than others. 100 (63.3%) subjects preferred workshops held by the librarian to other workshops.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The users of Information Unit of The Library perceived the training IL skills by librarians as a main influencing factor in their IL development and achievement. This emphasized the necessity of teaching IL to users and training the librarians in better teaching IL skills to library user.
authors: Department of General Education, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Mazandaran, Iran.
authors: Mousa
authors: M
authors: Yaminfirooz
authors: Department of Health Information Technology, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Mazandaran, Iran.
authors: Hasan
authors: H
authors: Siamian
authors: Sari Central Medical library, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Mazandaran, Iran.
authors: Afsaneh
authors: A
authors: Shahrabi
keywords: Babol University of Medical Sciences; Information Literacy; Iran.; Librarians; Library Users