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The article discusses library and information science in Iran as of April 2012, with a focus on the external environments of academic libraries and environmental scanning performed by managers of central libraries from non-profit Islamic Azad Universities (IAU). Topics include determining the role of the library within its environment, incorporating rules of evolutionary biology into organization studies, and perceived strategic uncertainty (PSU). Additional information is presented on mail questionnaires and the rate of change in environmental sectors.

The article presents information about a study done at Iran's Islamic Azad University which looks at research papers done in the Library and Information Science department from 1997 to 2007 regarding critical thinking, gender, and education. It focuses on critical thinking skills which have a positive impact on improving the writing process, most notably in student compositions. Topics include a lack of correlation between learning methods and critical thinking, the presence of a correlation between critical thinking and age and gender, and a correlation between curriculum type and critical thinking.