دور المبادرات المجتمعية في تحقيق الريادة لمكتبات الجامعات الأردنية الخاصة في إقليم الوسط من وجهة نظر العاملين فيها

الملخص EN

This study aimed to investigate the role of community initiatives in achieving entrepreneurship for the libraries of private Jordanian universities in the center region from the point of view of their employees, and to find out whether there are statistically significant differences in employees' estimates of the role of community initiatives in achieving entrepreneurship for the libraries of private Jordanian universities in the center region at (α = 0.05) level, attributed to the variables of sex, job title, specialization, educational qualification and andexperience.

The study population consisted of all employees in the libraries of private Jordanian universities in the center region for the academic year (2019-2020), Study populations reached (122), of whom (76) responded, i.e.

(62.29%).

To achieve the study objectives, a questionnaire was developed based on the published literature and previous studies.

It consisted of two parts: the first; related to the respondents’ demographic data, which are: (gender, job title, specialization, educational qualification, and experience), while the second; encompassed the five areas of community initiatives, namely, the fields of economic initiatives, social and cultural initiatives, health and environmental initiatives, charitable initiatives, and creative initiatives).

The validity and reliability of the study tool has been verified.

Results showed that the degree of employees' estimation of the role of community initiatives in achieving entrepreneurship for their libraries in general was average, and the field of charitable initiatives ranked first, followed by the field of economic initiatives, and finally the field of health and environmental initiatives ranked last.

findings also indicated that there are no statistically significant differences in the employees’ estimates of the role of community initiatives in achieving entrepreneurship for the libraries of private Jordanian universities at the level of (α = 0.05), due to the variables of gender, job title, specialization, academic qualification, and experience.

Based on these findings, the study concluded some recommendations to include: private Jordanian university administrations pay more attention to community initiatives that link these universities to their local communities, increase interest in creativity, and encourage creative workers, and that these libraries should reconsider her understanding of the term entpreneurship, if they want to obtain new sources of income for libraries.