The Iraqi Journal for Information and Documentation Studies

Editorial of the first issue of volume seven

The research aimed to identify the extent of the use of British historical documents in the history major through analyzing the bibliographic references contained in university dissertations and dissertations, including distribution (thematically, temporally, and usage). The analytical bibliometric approach was adopted, based on the analysis of the bibliographic references contained in university dissertations and dissertations for the history major and related matters. For the period studied (2010-2020), there were (63) university theses, and their total references reached (104) bibliographic references. University theses at the (Master’s) level in which the researchers used historical British documents occupied the highest percentage of citations, amounting to (47), with a percentage of (75%), and university dissertations at the doctoral level amounted to (16), with a percentage of (25%). To obtain the results, he began to use a measurement system (power, comparison, Pareto’s law, growth scale, measurement using histograms... and others present within the research). The research has a set of results, including: the presence of a weakness in the use of historical British documents, which is due to the weak efficiency of the collections during the period 2010-2020 in terms of interest in producing research tools and the lack of financial allocation to prepare the supplies, the weakness of the technical and technical skills of the workers, and so on, the values for comparison. There are no outliers between the researchers’ use of British documents classified for one ministry in the university dissertation and the researchers’ use of historical British documents for all ministries in Table No. (3), and the point of convergence was use (Point2 as shown in Figure (3), and the value (25) is the value that is in the middle of all the values, so that (50%) of the values are higher than it and (50%) of the values are lower than it. The purpose is that the distribution of values is not random.

The research aimed to measure the scientific productivity of faculty members in the de-partments of information, knowledge technologies and libraries in Iraqi universities, by us-ing percentages and the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test. The descriptive analytical method was used to identify aspects of the research topic using the question-naire and interview as two tools to know the scientific activity of faculty members. Several results have been reached, including that the members of the teaching staff in both Al-Mustansiriya and Basra are the highest in terms of levels of scientific production, while this average drops to more than half in the rest of the five Iraqi universities, and the high average scientific production of peer-reviewed research and books published by cam-paigners Doctorate degree, while this average decreases for researchers who hold a master’s degree, the rate of book production increases for faculty members whose service reaches (40) years or more, and that there are obstacles that greatly affect the movement of scientific research in Iraqi universities.
The research developed several recommendations ,such as paying attention to devel-oping research skills among faculty members by holding courses and workshops special-ized in the mechanism of scientific research, working to create and strengthen a support-ive research environment within higher education institutions, and the importance of in-vesting in the expertise of researchers among faculty members and encouraging them to conduct scientific research. In addition to the necessity of creating a database that con-tains all the research completed by information and knowledge technology departments and libraries so that it can be consulted at any time and easily, also working to evaluate the research process and examine its reality in periodic time periods, which contributes to diagnosing the challenges and difficulties that faculty members may face and thus reduc-ing of it and its effects.

The current study\\'s main purpose was to investigate how faculty members at Majmaah University (MU) utilize the Internet in obtaining information. The researcher sought to identify the nature of their use of the Internet in accessing information, and the extent to which the university network and facilities are able to provide the services they aspire to. He also sought to identify the impact of a number of variables on their satisfaction with and benefit from Internet use.
The researcher followed the descriptive survey approach, and a questionnaire was used as a tool for collecting data from the study population. A random sample of three hundred and fifty-five faculty members at MU was selected and surveyed.
The study found that a high percentage of respondents possess the skill of using a computer, and that their use of the Internet is done at home as the first choice among other places to access the Internet. The results of the study also showed that a very high percentage of the respondents use the Internet significantly a number of times per day. The main purpose of using the Internet among members of the study community was to teach online and then search for resources related to their research topics. It was also shown that e-mail and Internet search engines were respectively the most used Internet tools in the study sample. Additionally, the level of satisfaction with the services provided was affected by the variables of gender, degree and specialization, while the variables of nationality and gender had an impact on the choice of where to access the Internet.
The researcher asserted the importance of activating the role of the Internet in publishing scientific research of faculty members, as well as studying the obstacles that prevent the use of the Internet in publishing these researches, and finding appropriate solutions for them.

The research aims to shed light on educational objects and indicate their availability within the types of digital content of Arab digital institutional repositories. All Arabic repositories located within the open access repositories (open DOAR)، all of which were viewed (91) repositories in the year (2023)، were studied and analyzed. The research reached several results، the most important of which is that the number of repositories containing topics in the field of learning objects reached (24) repositories، representing only (26%) of the Arab repositories (91). Among the most important recommendations is working to encourage digital publishing for its important role in raising the level of Arab universities in classifications. Global University Ranking، which considers digital publishing to be one of the most important ranking points.

The study aimed to identify time management in the Parliamentary Research
and Studies Department, know the standard procedures for main services, and calculate their completion times.

The study adopted the descriptive analytical approach, and the population consisted of all workers, numbering (68) individuals, who at the same time constituted beneficiaries of parliamentary research information services.
percentage weight, exploratory validity and other statistical methods were used to analyze the data using the statistical program (SPSS / version 24).
The study proved that there is time management among employees of the Parliamentary Research and Studies Department, as the calculated T-value (18.175) is greater than the tabulated T-value of (2.009) at a significance level of (0.05). It also proved that the research community plans effectively for time management. In providing various services, the relative importance reached (74%).
In light of these results, the study recommended the importance of working on using motivational methods for workers in the Parliamentary Research and Studies Department to encourage them to complete tasks in a short time and with high efficiency, in addition to the necessity of consolidating the concept of time management, and clarifying the extent of its importance among workers in this department due to the sensitive nature of its work.

The research aims to introduce the official electronic page of Information and Knowledge Technologies department at Al-Mustansiriya University and its role in supporting the scientific activities of faculty members, also to review its content and keeping up with their participation in various scientific events such as conferences, seminars and scientific workshops locally and internationally, while specifying the type of page for the support. Submitted through the mentioned scientific activities.
The research adopted a case study approach and used a questionnaire as a tool to collect data from (26) professors, also a three-way Likert scale was adopted as statistical méthode. The researchers reached several conclusions, the most important of which is that the official electronic page of the Department of Information and Knowledge Technologies is a major media source for introducing the identity of the department and the activities and achievements of its teaching staff, as well as providing advance media support for various scientific activities by announcing them before they are held. The published content of the page includes several types of Scientific activities, such as scientific participation by teaching staff, coverage of conferences, scientific seminars, training courses, workshops, and scientific and cultural forums. As for the research proposals, they were about increasing interest in covering, following up and publishing all the scientific activities of faculty members in the department to inform those interested in them in advance, as well as following up on their individual efforts and productions at the local and international levels, as well as working to further develop and support publishing on the page technically and media through subscription those working to publish on the page in training courses held by the institution that supervises the electronic page.

The research addressed the concept of cloud computing, its components and characteristics, and ways to benefit from its applications in providing information services to beneficiaries of university libraries. It also aims to identify the extent of the impact of these applications on the development of information services and the advantages of their use in university libraries. The descriptive analytical approach was adopted through questions directed to the research community, namely university librarians, to identify the characteristics of this community and the extent of the impact of the use of these applications on the progress of information services in university central libraries. The percentage of use of cloud computing applications reached (81%), and the two central libraries of the Universities of Baghdad and Diyala ranked first, while the central libraries of the University of Kufa and the Institute of Informatics ranked last, as the percentage of use of these applications reached (50%(

The study aimed to identify books published in the Arabic language and in the specialty of literature during the years (2012-2015) and to identify the prevailing thematic trends of these books in Iraq through what was published in the Iraqi bibliography, also to identify the most published topics .In order to achieve the objectives of the study, (1549) published books were selected in the Arabic language as a comprehensive study community published during the time period (2012-2015) with the specialty of literature.
The study followed the analytical survey method to study the thematic trends of books published on the subject of the Arabic language, and data was collected through the Iraqi National Bibliography and the review of the indexing department.

This research aims to identify the importance of administrative communication for transferring information in government institutions to support decisions in the College of Arts.
The research relied on the statistical (analytical) approach through a questionnaire that was distributed to a sample to collect data. The total population reached (700) individuals, and the number of teaching staff reached (500) individuals, while the number of employees was (200). A stratified random sample was selected based on the Morgan (Krejcie & 1970) sampling method. The sample number was (248) individuals, the teaching staff was (177) individuals, and the employee class was (71), a questionnaire form was distributed to both teaching staff and employees, and the data was analyzed using statistical methods such as the arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation in order to achieve the objectives of the research and prove its hypotheses. The research reached several results, including that not using flexibility in transferring information can lead to delays. Decision making process.

The research aimed to identify the trends of the University of Wasit in the use of information technologies and the level of understanding and awareness of knowledge management by its employees and to reveal their attitudes towards its application. The questionnaire was distributed to (25%) of the workers in the university presidency for the purpose of collecting data, also the descriptive approach was used to analyze these data, The results of the research indicated that the attitudes of university employees towards the application of knowledge management were highly positive, in addition to the availability of the requirements for knowledge management techniques to some extent, The research recommendations came in increasing the interest of the university administration in holding advanced development courses and following up on developments in the use of techniques. Information and placing it among its priorities, as well as the importance of developing a clear strategy to support the concept of knowledge management, following up on its implementation and evaluating its impact periodically with the aim of improving performance

The research aims to introduce summer practical training for students of the department of Information Technology and Libraries at the Institute of Management/Al-Rusafa at the Central Technical University, and shows the importance of this training for them. It basically defines e-learning and training and the justifications and circumstances that made education and training institutions adopt it and resort to it, such as the circumstances that the world went through during the Corona pandemic. The descriptive approach was used to analyze the variables of this research through a questionnaire that included (12) questions through which the research produced several results and proposals.

The research aims to shed light on the reality of public and private primary school libraries in the city of Mosul in Iraq in terms of the building, equipment and furniture, the technical procedures followed in them, their annual budgets, their collections, the services they provide to students, their activities and events, their trustees and beneficiaries, and the extent to which they apply the specifications and standards in effect in school libraries in the world.
The research followed the descriptive survey method through a random sample of (6) school libraries, (3) of which were private school libraries and (3)governmental school libraries.
The research reached a set of results, the most important of which are:
1.Primary school libraries lack an independent building, as it was found that most of them are halls with small areas as part of the school building.
2. The small number of specialists in the field of information and libraries working to manage school libraries, and the majority of those currently assigned are from other specializations.
The research recommended the need to design a suitable place for the school library within the designs of modern school buildings, while polling the opinions of specialists in choosing the location and area of the library, somewhat according to international standards and standards, in addition to the necessity of providing specialized staff in the field of information and libraries to work in school libraries, and for this qualification to be a requirement. Among the conditions for accepting the appointment, he also recommended inviting these specialists to apply to work in school libraries, and among the recommendations also is the importance of continuous training for school librarians and teachers in those schools and involving them in training courses inside and outside Iraq to keep pace with developments in the field of specialization.