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Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volume  8, Issue 1, January - April 2014, Pages 5-14
 

Original Article

Knowledge Management and its Application in Library Sciences

Chanderkanta Sood, D.S. Chaubey

*Librarians, **Professor, Omkarananda Institute of Management and Technology (OIMT), P.O. Sivanada Nagar, Muni Ki Reti, Rishikesh-249192, (Uttrakhand), India

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Abstract

The management of information has long been regarded as the domain of librarians and libraries. Librarians and information professionals are trained to be experts in information searching, selecting, acquiring, organizing, preserving, repackaging, disseminating, and serving. However, professionals in information technology and systems have also regarded information management as their domain because of the recent advances in information technology and systems which drive and underpin information management. One of the clearest evidences of this is that the positions of “Chief Information Officer” (CIO) in many organizations are generally held by information technologists instead of librarians. In fact, most of the work of CIO’s has to do with developing and managing the IT infrastructure and systems, not the managing of information per se. With the growing interest in knowledge management, many questions have been raised in the minds of librarians regarding: the difference between information and knowledge; between information management and knowledge management; who should be in charge of information and knowledge management; would librarians and information professionals with appropriate education and training in library and information science be most suitable for the position of “Chief Knowledge Officer” (CKO) in their organizations; and what libraries can do in implementing knowledge management. Present paper is an attempt to study the different dimension of knowledge management and its application in library sciences.

Keywords: Preserving;Repackaging;Disseminating;Knowledge management;Chief Knowledge Officer.


Corresponding Author : Chanderkanta Sood