Knowledge Management Process on Academic Libraries and Challenges for Library Professionals in the Electronic Era

Knowledge Management has become a powerful tool for promoting innovation and realizing reengineering the various walks of life. It occupies very outstanding position in the creation of knowledge innovation systems of a country. Knowledge management is a process of knowledge creation and modernization through an efficient organization and sufficient exploitation of information and knowledge resources. This paper discuss about the role of Knowledge Management processes and applications on academic libraries and knowledge centre. This paper also describes the main objectives, reviews, process, benefits and barriers of Knowledge Management in the digital era. The paper explains the knowledge management system is a decision support system and its role is to assist humans to make better decisions by making humans better informed. Finally, the paper highlights the role, skills and challenges for information professionals on Knowledge Management to manage the knowledge in the digital environment.