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Special Library Association’s Certificate Program for Knowledge Management Professionals

News | Knowledge Management education & training worldwide

Abstract: The Special Libraries Association (SLA), a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners, announced it will offer its members a new opportunity to earn a knowledge management (KM) certificate. The certificate will be offered through Click University, an online learning system for post-graduate, practicing librarians and information professionals.

Rules for leaders of knowledge citizens

Abstract: In 1909, Sam Walter Foss, a librarian at the Somerville Public Library in Massachusetts, wrote a paper entitled ‘Some cardinal principals of librarian’s work’. Interestingly, Foss emphasized and encouraged the role of the librarian to be a fundamentally social and people-oriented character as opposed to a shy and retiring ‘book lover’. This

Variety of titles: chief information, chief learning, and chief knowledge officers

Abstract: The need to manage what Hubert St. Onge, Director of Organizational Learning for Canadian Imperial Bank Corporation, describes as a firm’s intellectual capital, “the sum of human, structural, and customer capital,” has created opportunities for a new breed of executives skilled in leveraging valuable organizational knowledge. A variety of titles