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    Knowledge management practices: The role of Namibian ministerial librarians
    (University of Namibia, 2015) Iilonga, Selma
    In the information/knowledge society era, the library manages both external and internal knowledge of its host organisation. This can be achieved through the process of collecting relevant information, processing, organising and dissemination to ensure that information/knowledge contents housed in the library are retrievable and accessible to the targeted audience, using various dissemination channels. Librarians ensure that the targeted audiences are equipped with the skills to locate, evaluate, and use available and useful information/knowledge effectively, by providing information literacy training to them. Studies have found the visibility of librarians in the knowledge management environment to be very low and the utilisation of their skills to be minimal. This study investigated the practice of knowledge management by ministerial librarians in Namibia. The study relied on the Bukowitz and Williams Knowledge Management (KM) framework (2000). This framework is appropriate to the study because it consists of different stages (GET, USE, LEARN, CONTRIBUTE, ASSESS, BUILD/SUSTAIN, AND DIVEST) that address the themes of the focus of the study, thus making it relevant to effective and efficient knowledge management in an enterprise such as the government ministries.
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    (ScienceDirect, 2024) Iilonga, Selma; Hipangwa, Martin
    To meet the demands of the 21st-century digital economy and the fourth industrial revolution, dominated as they are by technologies and generation Z users, there is a need to understand the different types of information that people use in everyday life for decision-making. Information users need to develop independent critical thinking and effective use of information and information technology. There is a variety of information sources, and users must have the relevant skills for searching and to ensure discoverability to the full. Therefore, information and digital literacy skills are of paramount importance for the socioeconomic development of a country