Authors
Nupur Godboley
Abstract
Library is considered as the storage of the information and academic and all the relevant information for the role of knowledge management in the welfare of the institutions. As well all consider knowledge as the key resource in the development of our society. The academic structure need a lot more improvement in the respect of information’s unit and the involvement of advanced tools and techniques for information. There is always a need of the well-established and well-equipped necessities of the academic organizations. Knowledge management is helpful in giving the proper utilizing the academic libraries and other information professional for improving the provided services which reduce to the users. The present study focus on the review of numerous involvement and development of library services with the connection with knowledge management. It focus on the role of the libraries in the up growth of knowledge management. Keywords: Library, Knowledge management, Academic structure, Information Professionals.
Introduction
Knowledge Management is one of the essential feature in the cause of the development of the education in numerous universities, colleges and organizations. The idea behind the Knowledge management was initiated since Plato and hence later was formally utilize by Carl Wing in 1986. The role of knowledge management was used as a business trend in the corporate world and hence now a time act as an important feature in the academic institutions and public organizations. Academic libraries is always consider as the heart of the universities as due to the reason often strategic position and the place of knowledge and information. There is a rapid development in the information and communication technologies i.e. ICT (Nazim and Mukherjee, 2016).
Perspectives for the Use of Knowledge Management
• It focus on the specific of libraries and use the knowledge management as the agenda of libraries.
• The library as equalize with that of the any other organization as a tool fort the management.
• It is to be useful to handle up the turnover the loss of the resources and development of the wealth of the internal knowledge with involvement of creativity of innovations.
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