نوآوری سازمانی در کتابخانه های دانشگاه شیراز و دانشگاه علوم پزشکی شیراز

Abstractintroduction: organizational innovation requires to turns ideas into organizational usable formsand this idea are used to promote organizational performance. the aim of this study was tosurvey organizational innovation (administrative & technical) in the academic libraries ofshiraz public university (shiraz university, shiraz medical sciences university).methods: this research is a descriptive – survey study, and the population consists all of managersand librarians in academic libraries of shiraz in 2011-2012 years (151 persons), that by used theformula of sampling i.e. cochran and were selected 86 persons. sampling method is randomstratified sampling proportionate to size. to collect data a researcher made questionnaire was usedwhich its face validity was approved by experts and its reliability was estimated by cronbach's alphacoefficient (0.93). for analyzing the data spss v.16 software was used in two levels of descriptiveand inferential statistics.results: the status of organizational innovation and two component’s administrative and technicalinnovation in the academic libraries of shiraz public universities is more than the average level(3.42±0.66), but the differences between the components of organizational innovation (technical andadministrative) were significant (p?0.05). also among the respondents’views, there is no significantdifference based on demographic variables of gender, field of study, years of service, and level ofeducation (p > 0.05), there is significant difference based on university and type of work in the libraryin the components of administrative innovations (p?0.05). in other words, manager's greateradministrative innovation than technical and public services staff.conclusion: academic libraries have been particular importance in this case in regard toincreasing importance of innovation in organizations. management academic libraries canimprove their services and to better meet information needs clients with provide appropriateworking environment for their employees and librarians.keywords: organizational innovation; university; libraries