Transforming Research Libraries For The Global Knowledge Society

✏Book Title : Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society
✏Author : Barbara Dewey
✏Publisher : Elsevier
✏Release Date : 2010-09-01
✏Pages : 208
✏ISBN : 9781780630380
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society Book Summary : Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society explores critical aspects of research library transformation needed for successful transition into the 21st century multicultural environment. The book is written by leaders in the field who have real world experience with transformational change and thought-provoking ideas for the future of research libraries, academic librarianship, research collections, and the changing nature of global scholarship within a higher education context. Authors are leaders in the research libraries field from a variety of countries Thought provoking chapters will help guide research library transformation globally Contains a diversity of thinking on research librarianship in the 21st century

✏Book Title : Advances in Library Administration and Organization
✏Author : Delmus E. Williams
✏Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
✏Release Date : 2015-06-16
✏Pages : 216
✏ISBN : 9781784419097
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Advances in Library Administration and Organization Book Summary : Volume 33 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization brings together a range of diverse and reflective essays to provide strategies that will be of value in addressing challenges faced by current and future library managers.

✏Book Title : Supporting Entrepreneurship and Innovation
✏Author : Janet Crum
✏Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
✏Release Date : 2019-04-29
✏Pages : 232
✏ISBN : 9781789732078
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Supporting Entrepreneurship and Innovation Book Summary : Libraries have recently begun doing more to support entrepreneurship and innovation within their communities. This volume explores how this has come about, looking at libraries from across North America, Europe and Africa, and helps position readers to better understand what is happening, and how this can be brought to further institutions.

✏Book Title : Open Access and the Library
✏Author : Anja Oberländer
✏Publisher : MDPI
✏Release Date : 2019-04-04
✏Pages : 142
✏ISBN : 9783038977407
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Open Access and the Library Book Summary : Libraries are places of learning and knowledge creation. Over the last two decades, digital technology—and the changes that came with it—have accelerated this transformation to a point where evolution starts to become a revolution. The wider Open Science movement, and Open Access in particular, is one of these changes and is already having a profound impact. Under the subscription model, the role of libraries was to buy or license content on behalf of their users and then act as gatekeepers to regulate access on behalf of rights holders. In a world where all research is open, the role of the library is shifting from licensing and disseminating to facilitating and supporting the publishing process itself. This requires a fundamental shift in terms of structures, tasks, and skills. It also changes the idea of a library’s collection. Under the subscription model, contemporary collections largely equal content bought from publishers. Under an open model, the collection is more likely to be the content created by the users of the library (researchers, staff, students, etc.), content that is now curated by the library. Instead of selecting external content, libraries have to understand the content created by their own users and help them to make it publicly available—be it through a local repository, payment of article processing charges, or through advice and guidance. Arguably, this is an overly simplified model that leaves aside special collections and other areas. Even so, it highlights the changes that research libraries are undergoing, changes that are likely to accelerate as a result of initiatives such as Plan S. This Special Issue investigates some of the changes in today’s library services that relate to open access.

✏Book Title : The University and the Global Knowledge Society
✏Author : John W. Meyer
✏Publisher : Princeton University Press
✏Release Date : 2020-05-19
✏Pages : 200
✏ISBN : 9780691202051
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The University and the Global Knowledge Society Book Summary : "This book examines the core changes in the nature, status, and significance of the university over the last century. Having grown in numbers, reach, and scope, the university has seen sweeping expansion and has become central in a contemporary global society built on liberal and neoliberal institutions. David Frank and John Meyer begin by describing the university's expansion, focusing especially on global diffusion. They then examine the transformation of university knowledge, illustrating the ways in which standardized and scientific knowledge now reaches into more sectors of everyday life. This leads them to discuss the porous interface between the university and society. They suggest that there are now essentially no social problems that the university should not responsibly address. The result is a society dependent on credentials and cultural content provided by the university, and in the final chapter of the book, the authors reflect on what it means to exist in this "knowledge society""--

✏Book Title : World Class Worldwide
✏Author : Philip G. Altbach
✏Publisher : JHU Press
✏Release Date : 2007-07
✏Pages : 323
✏ISBN : 0801886627
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏World Class Worldwide Book Summary : Nations with strong research universities are better able to compete in the international marketplace of ideas and innovation. Any country—especially in the developing world—striving to participate in the global knowledge economy must recognize the power of such institutions to transform society. In World Class Worldwide, analysts from developing and middle-income countries in Asia and Latin America explore their countries’ specific challenges in providing “world class” higher education. Philip G. Altbach, Jorge Balán, and their contributors combine current scholarship and practical experience in presenting a comprehensive discussion of the significant issues facing research universities in Mexico, China, India, and elsewhere. They address the special challenges of establishing and maintaining these institutions; the role of information technology; how research universities train leaders and foster scientific innovation; and the extent to which the private sector can and should be involved in funding and development.

✏Book Title : Changing Roles of NGOs in the Creation Storage and Dissemination of Information in Developing Countries
✏Author : Steve W. Witt
✏Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
✏Release Date : 2008-11-03
✏Pages : 146
✏ISBN : 9783598440243
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Changing Roles of NGOs in the Creation Storage and Dissemination of Information in Developing Countries Book Summary : Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are growing exponentially. In 1993, the Yearbook of International Organizations listed 16,000 internationally recognized NGOs. By 2004, this number was 63,000. With this increase comes a staggering growth in the activities and intellectual output of NGOs working on a local and international level. As the mission of both libraries and NGOs increasingly intersect, these organizations must collaborate to provide essential services that revolve around the creation, dissemination, and storage of information. This volume's eight essays focus on collaborative work between NGOs and libraries in the study and resolution of global issues ranging from AIDS to food security, and social transformation.

✏Book Title : Developing Knowledge Societies for Distinct Country Contexts
✏Author : Lopes, Nuno Vasco
✏Publisher : IGI Global
✏Release Date : 2020-12-18
✏Pages : 296
✏ISBN : 9781522588740
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Developing Knowledge Societies for Distinct Country Contexts Book Summary : Through knowledge societies, people have capabilities to acquire information and to transform that information into knowledge and information, which empowers them to enhance their lives and to contribute to the social-economic development. The practical application of knowledge into innovation and how this process from research to development to application can be achieved is a domain that is not yet very well understood. Developing Knowledge Societies for Distinct Country Contexts is an essential reference source that documents methods, best practices, and case studies for the development of global knowledge societies at the national, regional, and local levels. Featuring empirical analysis on topics such as smart governance, financial literacy, and globalization, this book is ideally designed for business strategists, economists, international researchers, anthropologists, politicians, policymakers, governmental sectors, academics, and students seeking coverage on the development of knowledge society policies and strategies in various areas of the world.

✏Book Title : Access to Knowledge in India
✏Author : Ramesh Subramanian
✏Publisher : A&C Black
✏Release Date : 2011-09-30
✏Pages : 192
✏ISBN : 9781849665582
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Access to Knowledge in India Book Summary : This is the third volume in our Access to Knowledge series. India is a $1 trillion economy which nevertheless struggles with a very high poverty rate and very low access to knowledge for almost seventy percent of its population which lives in rural areas. This volume features four parts on current issues facing intellectual property, development policy (especially rural development policy) and associated innovation, from the Indian perspective. Each chapter is authored by scholars taking an interdisciplinary approach and affiliated to Indian or American universities and Indian think-tanks. Each examines a policy area that significantly impacts access to knowledge. These include information and communications technology for development; the Indian digital divide; networking rural areas; copyright and comparative business models in music; free and open source software; patent reform and access to medicines; the role of the Indian government in promoting access to knowledge internationally and domestically.

✏Book Title : Transforming Research Excellence
✏Author : McLean, Robert
✏Publisher : African Minds
✏Release Date : 2020-01-18
✏Pages : 298
✏ISBN : 9781928502067
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Transforming Research Excellence Book Summary : Modern-day science is under great pressure. A potent mix of increasing expectations, limited resources, tensions between competition and cooperation, and the need for evidence-based funding is creating major change in how science is conducted and perceived. Amidst this ‘perfect storm’ is the allure of ‘research excellence’, a concept that drives decisions made by universities and funders, and defines scientists’ research strategies and career trajectories. But what is ‘excellent’ science? And how to recognise it? After decades of inquiry and debate there is still no satisfactory answer. Are we asking the wrong question? Is reality more complex, and ‘excellence in science’ more elusive, than many are willing to admit? And how should excellence be defined in different parts of the world, particularly in lower-income countries of the ‘Global South’ where science is expected to contribute to pressing development issues, despite often scarce resources? Many wonder whether the Global South is importing, with or without consenting, the flawed tools for research evaluation from North America and Europe that are not fit for purpose. This book takes a critical view of these issues, touching on conceptual issues and practical problems that inevitably emerge when ‘excellence’ is at the center of science systems. Emerging from the capacity-building work of the Science Granting Councils Initiative in sub-Saharan Africa, it speaks to scholars, as well as to managers and funders of research around the world. Confronting sticky problems and uncomfortable truths, the chapters contain insights and recommendations that point towards new solutions – both for the Global South and the Global North.

✏Book Title : Building the Knowledge Society on the Internet Sharing and Exchanging Knowledge in Networked Environments
✏Author : Bolisani, Ettore
✏Publisher : IGI Global
✏Release Date : 2008-06-30
✏Pages : 440
✏ISBN : 9781599048185
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Building the Knowledge Society on the Internet Sharing and Exchanging Knowledge in Networked Environments Book Summary : "In today's networked societies, a key factor of the social and economic success is the capability to exchange, transfer, and share knowledge. This book provides research on the topic providing a foundation of an emerging and multidisciplinary field"--Provided by publisher.

✏Book Title : Universities and the Global Knowledge Economy
✏Author : Henry Etzkowitz
✏Publisher : Thomson Learning
✏Release Date : 1997
✏Pages : 184
✏ISBN : 1855674211
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Universities and the Global Knowledge Economy Book Summary : How do these developments in the knowledge infrastructure affect the intellectual organisation of the disciplines? Is there a co-evolution between new technologies and developments in their cognitive and institutional environments? Among the effects, the degree to which academic-industrial collaboration changes the role of the university as a source of disinterested expertise is also examined.

✏Book Title : Data Mining Applications for Empowering Knowledge Societies
✏Author : Rahman, Hakikur
✏Publisher : IGI Global
✏Release Date : 2008-07-31
✏Pages : 356
✏ISBN : 9781599046594
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Data Mining Applications for Empowering Knowledge Societies Book Summary : Presents an overview of the main issues of data mining, including its classification, regression, clustering, and ethical issues. Provides readers with knowledge enhancing processes as well as a wide spectrum of data mining applications.

✏Book Title : Sharing Knowledge Transforming Societies
✏Author : Halvorsen, Tor
✏Publisher : African Minds
✏Release Date : 2019-10-22
✏Pages : 612
✏ISBN : 9781928502005
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Sharing Knowledge Transforming Societies Book Summary : In June 2016, the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (Norhed) hosted a conference on the theme of ‘knowledge for development’ in an attempt to shift the focus of the programme towards its academic content. This book follows up on that event. The conference highlighted the usefulness of presenting the value of Norhed’s different projects to the world, showing how they improve knowledge and expand access to it through co-operation. A wish for more meta-knowledge was also expressed and this gives rise to the following questions: – Is this way of co-operating contributing to the growth of independent post-colonial knowledge production in the South, based on analyses of local data and experiences in ways that are relevant to our shared future? – Does the growth of academic independence, as well as greater equality, and the ability to develop theories different to those imposed by the better-off parts of the world, give rise to deeper understandings and better explanations? – Does it, at least, spread the ability to translate existing methodologies in ways that add meaning to observations of local context and data, and thus enhance the relevance and influence of the academic profession locally and internationally? This book, in its varied contributions, does not provide definite answers to these questions but it does show that Norhed is a step in the right direction. Norhed is an attempt to fund collaboration within and between higher education institutions. We know that both the uniqueness of this programme, and ideas of how to better utilise the learning and experience emerging from it, call for more elaboration and broader dissemination before we can offer further guidance on how to do things better. This book is a first attempt.

✏Book Title : Knowledge Societies
✏Author : Nico Stehr
✏Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
✏Release Date : 1994
✏Pages : 291
✏ISBN : UOM:39015026908486
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Knowledge Societies Book Summary : In this broad-ranging analysis of the central role that knowledge plays in our life, Nico Stehr critically examines the premises of existing social theory and explores the knowledge relations in advanced societies. The result is a significant new synthesis of social theory. The issues addressed in Knowledge Societies include: the process of scientization; the transformation of the political system by increasingly knowledgeable citizens; the rise of specific areas of expertise and changes in corresponding institutions based on the deployment of specialized knowledge; a shift in the nature of societal conflict from struggles about the allocation of income and property to claims and conflict about generalized human need

✏Book Title : Information Society Studies
✏Author : Alistair S. Duff
✏Publisher : Routledge
✏Release Date : 2013-12-02
✏Pages : 216
✏ISBN : 9781317797982
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Information Society Studies Book Summary : We are often told that we are "living in an information society" or that we are "information workers." But what exactly do these claims mean, and how might they be verified? In this important methodological study, Alistair S. Duff cuts through the rhetoric to get to the bottom of the "information society thesis." Wide-ranging in coverage, this study will be of interest to scholars in information science, communication and media studies and social theory. It is a key text for the newly-unified specialism of information society studies, and an indispensable guide to the future of this discipline.

✏Book Title : Technoethics and the Evolving Knowledge Society Ethical Issues in Technological Design Research Development and Innovation
✏Author : Luppicini, Rocci
✏Publisher : IGI Global
✏Release Date : 2010-01-31
✏Pages : 323
✏ISBN : 9781605669533
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Technoethics and the Evolving Knowledge Society Ethical Issues in Technological Design Research Development and Innovation Book Summary : "This book introduces the reader to the key concepts and issues that comprise the emerging field of Technoethics, the interdisciplinary field concerned with all ethical aspects of technology within a society shaped by technology"--Provided by publisher.

✏Book Title : Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy
✏Author : Michael A. Peters
✏Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
✏Release Date : 2009
✏Pages : 289
✏ISBN : STANFORD:36105132251856
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy Book Summary : This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that investigates the emerging set of complex relationships between creativity, design, research, higher education and knowledge capitalism. It highlights the role of the creative and expressive arts, of performance, of aesthetics in general, and the significant role of design as an underlying infrastructure for the creative economy. This book tracks the most recent mutation of these serial shifts - from postindustrial economy to the information economy to the digital economy to the knowledge economy to the 'creative economy' - to summarize the underlying and essential trends in knowledge capitalism and to investigate post-market notions of open source public space. The book hypothesizes that creative economy might constitute an enlargement of its predecessors that not only democratizes creativity and relativizes intellectual property law, but also emphasizes the social conditions of creative work. It documents how these profound shifts have brought to the forefront forms of knowledge production based on the commons and driven by ideas, not profitability per se; and have given rise to the notion of not just 'knowledge management' but the design of 'creative institutions' embodying new patterns of work.

✏Book Title : Knowledge management Innovation in the Knowledge Economy Implications for Education and Learning
✏Author : OECD
✏Publisher : OECD Publishing
✏Release Date : 2004-04-29
✏Pages : 98
✏ISBN : 926410562X
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Knowledge management Innovation in the Knowledge Economy Implications for Education and Learning Book Summary : This report explores some key determinants of innovation and their implications for primary and secondary education.

✏Book Title : Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development Advancing E Learning Policies
✏Author : Stansfield, Mark
✏Publisher : IGI Global
✏Release Date : 2009-05-31
✏Pages : 354
✏ISBN : 9781605663593
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Institutional Transformation through Best Practices in Virtual Campus Development Advancing E Learning Policies Book Summary : Provides cost effective and sustainable learning procedures vital to ensuring long term success for both teacher and student; covers the latest research and findings in relation to best practice examples and case studies.

✏Book Title : Action Research
✏Author : Judith A. Sykes
✏Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
✏Release Date : 2002
✏Pages : 135
✏ISBN : 1563088754
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Action Research Book Summary : Promotes the importance of adapting school libraries to better fit the needs of today's teachers and students. _

✏Book Title : Towards Knowledge Societies
✏Author : Roger-Pol Droit
✏Publisher : United Nations Educational
✏Release Date : 2005
✏Pages : 226
✏ISBN : MINN:31951P00989203H
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Towards Knowledge Societies Book Summary : This report urges governments to expand quality education for all, increase community access to information and communication technology, and improve cross-border scientific knowledge-sharing, in an effort to narrow the digital and "knowledge" divides between the North and South and move towards a "smart" form of sustainable human development. It makes a distinction between information societies and knowledge societies and analyses the role played by knowledge in economic growth and factors that block its development.

✏Book Title : LASIE
✏Author :
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2001
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : UOM:39015066174569
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏LASIE Book Summary :

✏Book Title : The Globalization of Knowledge in History
✏Author : Jürgen Renn
✏Publisher : epubli
✏Release Date : 2012-07-20
✏Pages : 868
✏ISBN : 9783844222388
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Globalization of Knowledge in History Book Summary : Studies 1 of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge.

✏Book Title : Transition to the Knowledge Society
✏Author : Canada. Human Resources Development Canada
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2000
✏Pages : 463
✏ISBN : PSU:000046821317
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Transition to the Knowledge Society Book Summary : This text describes the implications of ICTs, their potential for increased productions, and their impact on jobs, skill development, wages, and income. The authors address issues of distribution and equity - particularly with respect to disparities involving class, gender, ethnicity, and age.

✏Book Title : Knowledge Organization for a Global Learning Society
✏Author : Gerhard Budin
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2006
✏Pages : 442
✏ISBN : UOM:39015073590856
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Knowledge Organization for a Global Learning Society Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Library Information Science Abstracts
✏Author :
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2008
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : UOM:39015079680453
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✏Library Information Science Abstracts Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Integral Research and Innovation
✏Author : Ronnie Lessem
✏Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.
✏Release Date : 2010
✏Pages : 423
✏ISBN : 0566089181
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Integral Research and Innovation Book Summary : At a time when business practitioners and others responsible for organizational development are desperate for usable knowledge the authors of this book contend that social science research is failing to support business and management. In Integral Research and Innovation, they explain how research has to be transformative, rather than just informative if it is to contribute usefully to building integrated and sustainable enterprises.Drawing on their experience of environments where researchers and practitioners do engage constructively, resulting in research that is active, participative, and genuinely innovative, Professor Lessem and Dr Schieffer are in territory that is far beyond that covered by standard works on research methodology.

✏Book Title : Knowledge Society
✏Author : Anna-Katharina Hornidge
✏Publisher : Lit Verlag
✏Release Date : 2007
✏Pages : 386
✏ISBN : STANFORD:36105124041505
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Knowledge Society Book Summary : Founding this book on Berger and Luckmann's sociology of knowledge, A.-K. Hornidge assesses knowledge society as a social construction of reality that orients and motivates actors to the effect that they finally create what they conceive as being objective. This process of construction is redrawn with reference to Germany and Singapore by assessing state activities and their inherent, country-specific definitions of knowledge society. The book ends with a discussion of the construct as economic and technological programme as well as new focal point of collective identity that reduces felt insecurities and risks within the second modernity. Anna-Katharina Hornidge is senior researcher at the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn (Germany), where she coordinates a research group on Culture, Knowledge and Development. She has done extensive field research on Singapore's science policy and is now concentrating her research on renewable energies.

✏Book Title : Handbook on Knowledge Management 1
✏Author : Clyde Holsapple
✏Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
✏Release Date : 2004-01-14
✏Pages : 700
✏ISBN : 3540200053
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Handbook on Knowledge Management 1 Book Summary : As the most comprehensive reference work dealing with knowledge management (KM), this work, consisting of 2 volumes, is essential for the library of every KM practitioner, researcher, and educator. Written by an international array of KM luminaries, its approx. 60 chapters approach knowledge management from a wide variety of perspectives ranging from classic foundations to cutting-edge thought, informative to provocative, theoretical to practical, historical to futuristic, human to technological, and operational to strategic. Novices and experts alike will refer to the authoritative and stimulating content again and again for years to come.