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Background and Aim: The major tasks of libraries is collecting information resources in appropriate shapes for clients needs and organize resources for making them available. This study has been done to review this status in school and hospital libraries of Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

Materials and Methods: This is survey descriptive research. Method statistical population consisted of all college and hospital libraries of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Intrument data collection was a questionnaire that its resiability and validity was measured Setting tables and getting percentages is performed as the Average measures in Excel spss version 12 programes.

Results: The highest rate of bachelores and masteres in libraries organized sector (more than 62 percent) belong to the libraries professionals. Staffes of 7 libraries (32 percent)are familiar with abstract and indexing services and staff is of more than 45 percent of libraries (more than 10 libraries) are familiar with a variety of subject headings and thesauri .

Conclusion: Low percentage of the average organization also show little attention in organizing some non-book materials. Low percentage of librarians orientation with abstracting and indexing services and also thesauri (45%) are the reason for this little attention.

 Background and Aim: Organization and utilization of non-book materials is an essential issue therefore, this study aims to evaluate the organization of non-book materials in central libraries of selected universities of Tehran.

 Materials and Methods: The present survey has been conducted as a cross-sectional, descriptive study in 2012. The population consisted of central libraries of selected universities of Tehran. Data gathering instrument was a questionnaire divided into three sections. The validity of the questionnaire was checked by the professionals of the field and its reliability turned out to be 88% using Cronbach's alpha test. Data analysis was performed with SPSS and excel. The findings were presented using descriptive and analytic statistics.

 Results: Most of non-book cataloged and indexed materials are theses and compact discs (CDs). Most of the libraries of this study use the Library of Congress Classification System for organizing their materials, and all of them (100%) apply Anglo-American rules for cataloging. Regarding the staff of libraries, 40 (95%) had academic degrees in library studies. As to their familiarity with OPEC, 4 libraries ( 80%) were familiar with Library of Congress (LC) and 3 ( 60%) were familiar with National Library of Iran. NOSA software was used in 4 ( 80%) libraries , and Windows operating system in all (100%).

  Conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, it can be concluded that the organization of non-book materials in these libraries is not as desired.