Knowledge management practices: The role of Namibian ministerial librarians
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Date
2015
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University of Namibia
Abstract
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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Knowledge management, Information management, Libraries, Ministerial Librarian
Citation
Iilonga, S. (2015). Knowledge management practices: The role of Namibian ministerial librarians. Proceedings of the Namibia Library Symposium 7-9 October 2013 Windhoek, Namibia.