Abstract: How can the Island of Puerto Rico, a US territory in the Caribbean, be transformed into a knowledge-based economy to play a significant role in the networked global community? This has been one of the critical inquiries of a group of faculty from different disciplines at the University of Puerto Rico, together with
knowledge economy
Knowledge management and the LIS professions
Abstract: This paper looks at the complex web of interrelationships that is emerging as the library and information professions come to terms with the growing phenomenon of knowledge management. This is manifest at one level in the wider organisational and business context, and at another in the professional and employment spheres. Two of the
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
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)*
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, or Cal), formerly the University of California, College of California, and the Contra Costa Academy, has offered the following Knowledge Management education and training
Chief Knowledge Officer’s ethical challenges
Abstract: Since the development and the introduction of the knowledge economy Knowledge Management has become an important scientific concept and many disciplines have laid some claims on it. As a re-discovery of the use of knowledge in an economic way to gain a competitive advantage in business it resides mostly in commerce and industry.