Abstract: An overall view of knowledge management, and the role of librarians in its implementation are being discussed. The shift from traditional work culture to a learning organization cannot be accomplished quickly. It requires high-level commitment to change, a rewards system that encourages teamwork, and the sharing of best practices. The main idea of
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Attributes of information service professionals for information and knowledge management
Abstract: A value learned by information service professionals in ‘information studies’ is the belief that the key to empowering people is sharing expertise and information, and collaborating across organisational boundaries and functional units. This belief has become part of the information professional’s ‘culture’, part of our value system – the normal and accepted way
Knowledge Management and the Information Professional
Abstract: As knowledge management becomes an accepted core function in organisations, why are so few librarians at its leading edge? Is our core professional ethic, service to clients, an inhibiting factor? What are the knowledge skills and attitudes that information professionals need to participate effectively in the knowledge aware organisation? How can information professionals
Educating Seven Information Skills for Personal Knowledge Management
Abstract: This paper clarifies Personal Knowledge Management, and its seven information skills, as a framework for the education of those preparing for knowledge work roles in global business and management. The seven information skills highlighted are: (1) retrieving information; (2) evaluating information; (3) organizing information; (4) collaborating around information; (5) analyzing information;
Founding of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO)
Abstract: Yes, on this very day of July 22nd, 1989, a group of German and non-German members of the German Society for Classification founded the International Society for Knowledge Organisation (ISKO) at the Intercity Restaurant of Frankfurt’s central Railway Station… The Society is meant to unite nationally and internationally personal and institutional