DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2015.v03i03.041

Pages: 1252-1258

The purpose of this study is to survey the effect of user education impact on students to empower and encourage them to be motivated for visiting the libraries and to get the best use of the available information resources. This is a quasi-experimental study in which 100 first-year (freshmen) medical students of Iran University of medical sciences participated in it willingly. The data were collected by two questionnaires. The data were analyzed by statistical software such as SPSS and paired t-test was used for analyzing the data. 41.3% of the students claimed that they were familiar with library and using its resources. The impact of education on student was effective and was efficient for medical students. Some numbers of the students recommended establishing a course entitled "Library user-education program" in the universities’ syllabuses.