Abstract: Organisations in the 21st century face the challenge of either adopting rapidly emerging information- and knowledge-management systems or becoming uncompetitive and irrelevant. The performance of any organisation is strongly dependent on the correct use of information technology. Executives have to know and value the possibilities and potential of this technology in order to
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Knowledge Management education in the departments of LIS in South Africa
Abstract: This paper focuses on the role of the departments of Library and / or Information Science (L/IS) in South African universities in the training of Knowledge Management (KM) competencies. A questionnaire was e-mailed to thirteen L/IS departments, of which 9 (69%) responded. All respondents showed great interest in KM as an L/IS competency. They