KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

Abstract

Knowledge is recognized as a key resource in all organizations whether it is profitable or non. Profitable organizations are beginning to realize that there is a vast and largely untapped asset diffused around in the organization is knowledge. Knowledge and management of knowledge are regarded as increasingly important features of an organizational survival. At the beginning knowledge management hyped in 1990 in business sector and then in higher education and then in the library management the need for embracing knowledge management in academic libraries is mainly due to a combined impact of library budget shortfall and higher user expectation and staff user ratio.