A Study on the Educational Needs of Archivists Working in the National Television Channels of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting

Document Type : Research Paper

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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to study the educational needs of 44 archivists working in the nationwide television channels of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.
Methodology/Approach: The research method was descriptive survey. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The research hypotheses are confirmed with a sig of 0.181 and 0.00 and SPSS software has been used for data analysis.
Findings: The most important educational needs of archivists in analog archives are resource evaluation (68.4 percent), rehabilitation of resources (62.5 percent), and indexing (58.3 percent). 74.5 percent of archivists have described their educational needs in digital archives to be "high" and "very high".

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