Quality of Services in Public Libraries

I recently published a paper in Shirazeh entitled “Evaluation Criteria to Assess the Breadth and Quality of Services in Public Libraries”. Shirazeh is an online newsletter published in Persian by the Iran National Library and covers various aspects of library and information science in Iran. In the first issue of this newsletter, I had an interview talking about my ten years career in LIS and how I became a librarian.

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