Knowledge Management

View to our Future

Abstract

The consequences of the growth in the volume of available information and rapid technological progress are the information overload and the bigger effort needed for their organization and processing. The demand for highly specialized knowledge that is often difficult to find and retain is also expressed. Knowledge management is a broader concept including a system for finding, understanding and using knowledge to achieve defined objectives. To some opinions, “knowledge management” is a new name for librarianship or at least a logical extension of librarianship. The theory and practice of knowledge management for some authors is a major paradigm in the management and use of “intellectual capital”. Many aspects of knowledge management are recognized in well established practices in librarianship and information management, like knowledge elicitation and creation, knowledge dissemination, information retrieval and storage, information literacy, database design, team work, IT support.