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eguinnee
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 3:54 am Post subject: February Poll: Where does KM belong? |
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The Feburary poll asks:
a. Should Knowledge Management (KM) be a part of LIS curricula?
b. Sure, but only as one part of an interdisciplinary degree program.
c. Who knows. What is KM exactly?
d. Absolutely. LIS schools are perfectly suited for teaching KM.
e. No way. Let the business schools teach it.
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bablum
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To me, Knowledge Management is actually just a form of cataloging--bits of knowledge in various formats (mostly digital) instead of books and traditional media. This is probably one of the most important skills for a librarian in the 21st century. KM may help us to create order out of the chaos that we know as the "web".
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washtublibrarian
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject: February Poll: Where does KM belong? |
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I think to say that KM is "just a form of cataloging" is to simplify both a bit much. Knowledge Management is a parallel process to the library technical services chain, or possibly more accurately the records management lifecycle: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Lifecycle_Management)
KM consists of the general categories:
1. identification of knowledge
2. gathering or creating a surrogate for the knowledge item
3. organizing/indexing the body of knowledge collected
4. providing and restricting access
5. enabling analysis and reporting
6. destroying an item of knowledge
Overall, these areas of work do correspond to essential concepts of library science, but a different approach to LIS education is needed to transfer some of these skills. Also, the need for fostering colleagues to "buy-in" to the KM endeavor is one of the big hurdles for any information professional...in the academic world, there are similar challenges when an institution is contemplating any major technological or organizational change. And sometimes these changes need to come from a librarian who takes on the role of new technologies advocate (read Dorothea Salo's Caveat Lector blog for a case study...she covers an exemplary institutional repository case here: http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2005/12/03/daser-mary-steiner/)
The Wikipedia primer on Knowledge Management is a good place to start getting acquainted with KM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management |
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