Comments on: Librarians vs Knowledge Managers?

By: John Graham

John Graham — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:34:42 +0000

good job

By: VMaryAbraham

VMaryAbraham — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:33:11 +0000

Delete.

By: May_ls2

May_ls2 — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:12:10 +0000

Please react.

Scenario: In an oral defense of a dissertation, a member of the panel who happens to be a university president remarked:

“Librarians including head librarians do not practice any management function; or, even participate in these functions. They are just like ordinary personnel of the university.”

React by agreeing or disagreeing to the above statement by citing the management functions and documenting your citations.

Thank you!

By: May_ls2

May_ls2 — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:11:17 +0000

Scenario: In an oral defense of a dissertation, a member of the panel who happens to be a university president remarked:

“Librarians including head librarians do not practice any management function; or, even participate in these functions. They are just like ordinary personnel of the university.”

React by agreeing or disagreeing to the above statement by citing the management functions and documenting your citations.

Thank you!

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Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:48:10 +0000

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By: VMaryAbraham

VMaryAbraham — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:26:23 +0000

Wendy and Nick –

Thanks for this lively conversation. I wonder if the increasing sophistication of search and tagging technology will allow us to take a much lighter hand when cataloging/organizing content? That would free us from some of the more tedious maintenance tasks and allow us to focus on facilitating knowledge transfer.

- Mary

By: VMaryAbraham

VMaryAbraham — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:21:35 +0000

Ted -

I'm heartened to hear about your positive experiences with a merged law firm library and KM department. Can you hazard any guesses as to why other attempts at this kind of merger fall short of the mark? Perhaps once we've identified what does go wrong, we can then plan for success.

- Mary

By: VMaryAbraham

VMaryAbraham — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:19:06 +0000

Nina -

Thanks for your comment and for the timely reminder not to succumb to stereotyping. With your experience as both a librarian and a knowledge manager, can you speak to whether there are any key personality, cultural or training differences between the two groups that lead one to act differently from the other? Or is this yet another area in which it is unwise to generalize?

- Mary