Abstract: No longer just researchers for hire, today’s information specialists are active players in corporate KM. The corporate library has long been a backwater of modern business—an underused service department offering research assistance, reference information and historical archives. But now, mushrooming technological capabilities coupled with insatiable business needs for information are
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Knowledge management skills needed by line managers
Abstract: New technology and organizational structures are transforming the workplace, but management skills have not yet caught up. Harnessing knowledge and using it as a competitive advantage is one of the key priorities of organizations today. Honing Your Knowledge Skills looks at how to define knowledge working and identifies the practical skills of knowledge
Hot new job title: Chief knowledge officer
Full text from publisher » Bob Weinstein, “Chief knowledge officers in big demand,” Chicago Sun-Times, March
New Role for Information Professionals: Knowledge Management
Full text from publisher » Marcus Speh: Knowledge Management – A New Role for Information Professionals.
Special librarians: key catalysts in the knowledge continuum
Abstract: Stephen Abram revisits some of the language and assumptions about the building blocks of information, knowledge, and organizations, as well as the process of knowledge creation and use. In this article, I will take a few heretical positions that will challenge some of the sacred cows of our profession. Unlike