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Knowlead Course – Managing the Integration of E-Resources into Library Collections (KL-MIER)

benfouche — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:17:46 +0000

Managing the Integration of E-Resources into Library Collections (KL-MIER)

Dates and Venues

Midrand, Gauteng

22– 26 November 2010

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The transition to electronic sources of information has recently gathered momentum and is affecting all subject areas and services to all levels of user: scientific and technical sources, community information, reading materials for children. The acquisition, provision and management of these e-resources leave librarians in all library and information sectors with a new and wide-ranging set of challenges. How can one find this material, how should it be managed in a modern library service? Come and find out.

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Knowledge champion roles

benfouche — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:24:20 +0000

We are noticing a trend especially in public sector organisations here in South Africa to institutionalise knowledge championship roles as part of knowledge management implementation initiatives. Part-time or full time KM champions are appointed at divisional level to create awareness and interest in KM; assess and communicate knowledge needs; match and connect knowledge requirements with sources; build or augment repositories: and act as links between divisional and institutional KM activities. Several government institutions have already trained KM champions and have completed full blown KM strategies. Leaders in the field include the City of Johannesburg and the Eastern Cape Provincial government. In both cases formal Innovation and KM groups have been established at the institutional level to provide leadership, training and support. Having been involved in providing some of the training we would be interested to learn about other instances of and approaches to formalised public sector KM not only in Africa but elsewhere as well.

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The collaborative inter-prise is coming to fruition

benfouche — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:14:29 +0000

While reviewing some the excellent recent contributions to the literature of knowledge management, it struck me again how prescient some of the older generation KM gurus were (still are?) in reading the emerging trends – even before or at the time of the dot.com crash. While the influential contributions of Peter Drucker stand out, I would like to remind knowledge managers of the excellent and very readable book of David Skyrme, Knowledge networking (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999). A decade after its publication it is still one of my favourites and a resource that I turn to from time to time. In the book he describes the advent of the collaborative “inter-prise” characterised by network relationships and linkages between an organisation and other players in its value chain to the extent that the boundaries of individual organisations tend to blend into networks. This is what we are seeing in practice today, enabled by Web 2.0 technologies. The book offers a wealth of insights and frameworks that are as valid today as at the time of publication. His website www.skyrme.com is worth a visit.

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