Purpose

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of organizational levers and information technology (IT) absorptive capacity on librarians' innovation.

Design/methodology/approach

This survey-analytic study investigated the librarians who were working in the libraries of the medical sciences universities in Iran. The data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire distributed randomly among the members of the sample. The SEM and the LISREL software for data analysis were used.

Findings

It was found that the librarians' job autonomy and fairness of rewards had an effect on acquiring new knowledge and applying transformed knowledge. Although the results did not confirm the effect of the librarians' job autonomy on knowledge assimilation and transformation, they showed a direct and positive effect of fairness of rewards on knowledge assimilation and transformation. Furthermore, this study confirmed the effect of acquiring and applying new knowledge about the library IT on enhancing the librarians' innovation. The effect of knowledge assimilation and transformation, from the application of IT in libraries, on the librarians' innovation was not confirmed.

Practical implications

Learning about the effect of organizational levers on librarians' knowledge absorptive capacities, in terms of applying technologies, to create innovation is an important issue. This will elucidate the gaps of disregarding the effect of organizational levers and librarians' knowledge absorptive capacities on librarians' innovation, and will pave the way for better planning to achieve the libraries' innovative goals.

Originality/value

This is among the few articles that have helped to fill the existing theoretical and research gap in knowledge absorptive capacity in Library and Information Science (LIS). In addition, this article has made a valuable contribution to understanding the role of IT knowledge absorptive capacity as a mediator variable between the organizational levers and librarians' innovation.

中文翻译：

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使用 IT 的创新：了解知识吸收能力对高校图书馆员的影响

目的

本研究的目的是检验组织杠杆和信息技术 (IT) 吸收能力对图书馆员创新的影响。

设计/方法/途径

这项调查分析研究调查了在伊朗医科大学图书馆工作的图书管理员。数据是使用随机分布在样本成员中的研究人员制作的问卷收集的。使用 SEM 和 LISREL 软件进行数据分析。

发现

结果发现，图书馆员的工作自主性和报酬的公平性对获取新知识和应用转化后的知识有影响。虽然结果没有证实图书馆员的工作自主性对知识吸收和转化的影响，但它们显示了奖励公平对知识吸收和转化的直接和积极的影响。此外，本研究证实了获取和应用有关图书馆 IT 的新知识对促进图书馆员创新的作用。信息技术在图书馆的应用对馆员创新的知识吸收和转化作用尚未得到证实。

实际影响

了解组织杠杆对图书馆员知识吸收能力的影响，就应用技术而言，创造创新是一个重要问题。这将阐明忽视组织杠杆和图书馆员知识吸收能力对图书馆员创新影响的差距，并为更好地规划实现图书馆的创新目标铺平道路。

原创性/价值

这是为数不多的几篇有助于填补图书馆和信息科学 (LIS) 知识吸收能力方面现有理论和研究空白的文章之一。此外，本文对理解 IT 知识吸收能力作为组织杠杆和图书馆员创新之间的中介变量的作用做出了有价值的贡献。