Knowledge Management in Libraries

Knowledge means the data and information are insights and context of the mind. It may be viewed as the cumulative effect of a lifetime of insight, intuition, context, experience and wisdom. Knowledge management means “knowing what you know and profiting from it”. (Built upon computational logic and based on memory). It can also be explained as “doing the right thing” as opposed to “doing things right”. Knowledge management can be classified into two types 1) Codified or explicit knowledge, which can be written down, transferred and shared and this can be protected under a legal mechanism. 2) Tacit knowledge or “know-how”, which is, by nature, more difficult to describe as it can be demonstrated but not codified. Knowledge Management in the library called as “the strategies and process of identifying, capturing, and leveraging knowledge to help the assessor at the right time”. Both intellectual capital and knowledge management have come to be the two strongly emerging themes in today's emerging world. From these perspectives the digital libraries prove that a society based on knowledge and learning is critical.