1Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad
2Assistant Librarian, Information Centre and Library Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (Deemed University), Girinagar, Pune
3Professor and Chairman, Department of Library and Information Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad
The development of knowledge management in recent years has become the key concern for librarians and libraries. There has been a surge of interest in Knowledge Management (KM) worldwide. More and more organizations now recognize that Knowledge Management is critical to the survival and growth of their business and Library and Information Centres (LICs) are not an exception to this. The paper highlights the importance of knowledge management in the 21st century and emphasizes the need for Knowledge Management (K M), Knowledge Management implementation and other concepts.
Knowledge Management, Knowledge Assets, Intellectual Capital, Intangible Assets, Tacit Knowledge, Explicit Knowledge, Knowledge Capital