Abstract:
An overall view of knowledge management, and the role of
librarians in its implementation are being discussed. The shift
from traditional work culture to a learning organization cannot
be accomplished quickly. It requires high-level commitment to
change, a rewards system that encourages teamwork, and the
sharing of best practices. The main idea of knowledge
management is establishing an environment where information
is shared and openly accepted. To built an effective knowledge
management system, the knowledge system needs to work
according to the work flow of the respective organization, and
should be able to produce the relevant information to the
ongoing projects in the organization. At the completion of the
project, the system is able to produce key documentation,
lessons learned and other useful information to be stored and
disseminated for future use. Corporations want knowledge
management because they realize it has the potential to help
them use what they already know, and what they don’t know, to work smarter and quicker and to make more money.
Librarians have significant advantages as knowledge
management players and they are both effective and customer
oriented, secondly, they understand the ways in which people
communicate information needs. Thus, librarians as
knowledge managers can provide value-added information to
their user community by using knowledge management tools in
their system.
