Explains how and why librarians can contribute to Knowledge Management

1. What? How? Why? Why Library?
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Diabetes case study
◦ Mayo Clinic- Patient Info. Systems- understand Glycemic
Index Vs Calories or Starch Content
◦ Aunt in CA, Cousin in Chennai, Dr. friend in Edinburg
◦ Recipes- from all of these and more resources
◦ Yoga teacher in Lonavla
◦ Best Doc/ hospital- directories; reviews
◦ Medical devices
◦ HR perspective
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Facilitate Networking internally
Facilitate Networking externally
Follow their work
Facilitate Exchange of Ideas- Validate our ideas;
cross- pollination of ideas
Facilitate elicitation of info.- groups; podcasts;
interviews; guest in blogs; events
Application/ compliance improves with community.
What can we learn from her? From this institution?
How can we leverage our Social Capital? How can we
nurture these relationships?
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Collect internal and external docs; index and abstract themkeeping functional/ operational/ reuse potential.
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Audio visuals/ animations, graphic memory aids are powerful
e.g. http://www.utstat.utoronto.ca/vukov/TeachingStats.htm
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Large collections of Teaching/ learning resources- e.g.
MERLOT, Annenberg TV series
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Academic activities- lesson plans, projects, research
skills, external events calendars, question
banks, competitions, innovation banks
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WISHLIST- Wiki for each dept
A blog for each dept
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Integrated systems; complex systems
which can talk to each other; with YouTube
-like user-friendly interface.
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Mendeley; Academia.edu
Repositories- WS Res.Centre
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Networks-communities
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Live and virtual events
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Improves learning
Leverages intellectual capitalpublications, collaborative projects, conferences
Leverages social capital- for placements;
funding
Improves our operational effectivenessdecision-making, new initiatives, Best
Practices; Records Management
Fosters innovation
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Natural progression for Lib.- deeper level of
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Custodians of documents
We work across disciplines- who has govt. contacts?
Industry contacts? Like LINKEDIN
Know many experts- authors, speakers… published
Know many organizations- publications, events
We also have an external focus- suited for collecting
Best Practices
Our USP- Store info for easy findability
Curating knowledge- Archives; Records Mgt; publishing
Keep upto date- CAS
Customizing & Personalizing- Ref Service; SDI
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THANK YOU
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