Abstract: Businesses are discovering the value of internal infomediaries. The disjunction between company employees and company knowledge hasn’t always been so acute. A business is, after all, a community of sorts, and every community has librarians, chroniclers, sages and gossips. But as the speed of business has accelerated, the tolerance for
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Fast-Track Knowledge Management Careers
Abstract: A Summary of Some Fast-Growning KM Careers A good barometer for measuring the acceptance of a movement might be the appearance of related recruitment ads in leading newspapers and employment services. If so, the dozen or so knowledge management positions listed in recent Sunday editions of the New York Times,
Business Librarian’s Changing Role
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
Librarian and Information Professional as Knowledge Navigator
Abstract: The new Kowledge Economy is a period of rapid change-a paradim shift-for librarians. Rory Chase discusses why it can be viewed as either the beginning of a new golden age for the profession, or the point when librarians became marginalized, and perhaps made irrelevant, by the rapid advances in digital computer and telecommunication
New Role for Information Professionals: Knowledge Management
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