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Individuals need to survive and grow in changing and sometimes
turbulent organizational environments, while organizations and
societies want individuals to have the knowledge, skills and
abilities that will enable them to prosper and thrive. Personal
Knowledge Management (PKM) is a means of coping with complex
environmental changes and developments: it is a form of
sophisticated career and life management. Personal Knowledge
Management is an evolving concept that focuses on the importance of
individual growth and learning as much as on the technology and
management processes traditionally associated with organizational
knowledge management. This book looks at the emergence of PKM from
a multi-disciplinary perspective, and its contributors reflect the
diverse fields of study that touch upon it. Relatively little
research or major conceptual development has so far been focused on
PKM, but already significant questions are being asked, such as 'is
there an inherent conflict between personal and organizational
knowledge management and how best do we harmonize individual and
organizational goals?' This book will inform, stimulate and
challenge every reader. By delving both deeply and broadly into its
subject, the distinguished authors help all those concerned with
'knowledge work' and 'knowledge workers' to see how PKM supports
and affects individuals, organizations and society as a whole; to
better understand the concepts involved and to benefit from
relevant research in this important area.
If you want to provide an information service that truly fulfils
your users' needs, this book is essential reading. Analysing and
assessing the information needs of clients is key to the provision
of effective service and appropriate collections in both
face-to-face and virtual library services. The importance of
information needs analysis is widely recognized by information
professionals, but currently there is little substantive, detailed
work in the professional literature devoted to this important
topic. This new book is designed to fill that gap, by supporting
practitioners in developing an information needs analysis strategy,
and offering the necessary professional skills and techniques to do
so. It will offer guidance to team leaders and senior managers in
all areas of library work, especially those involved in collection
management, service provision and web development, and is equally
applicable to the needs of academic, public, government, commercial
and other more specialized library and information services. The
text adopts a hands-on, jargon-free approach, and includes relevant
examples, case studies, reader activities and sources of further
reading. Key areas covered include: what is information needs
analysis? how is needs analysis conducted? what are the varieties
of needs analysis? how are analyses evaluated and reported?
Readership: The book will be essential reading for library and
information practitioners, team leaders and senior managers. It
will also be a core text on course reading lists in departments of
library and information studies.
Join our mailing list Qualitative Research for the Information
Professional, 2nd edition A practical handbook G. E. Gorman and
Peter Clayton About the book Table of contents Reviews About the
author This established text is the only introduction to
qualitative research methodologies in the field of library and
information management. Its extensive coverage encompasses all
aspects of qualitative research work from conception to completion,
and all types of study in a variety of settings from multi-site
projects to data organization. The book features many case studies
and examples, and offers a comprehensive manual of practice
designed for LIS professionals. This new edition has been
thoroughly revised and includes three new chapters. It has been
updated to take account of the substantial growth in the amount and
quality of web-based information relevant to qualitative research
methods and practice, and the many developments in software
applications and resources. The authors have identified a clear
need for a new chapter on the evaluation of existing research, as a
gateway into new research for information professionals. The final
chapter, 'Human Resources In Knowledge Management', takes the form
of a model case study, and is an 'ideal' qualitative investigation
in an information setting. It exemplifies many of the approaches to
qualitative research discussed in earlier chapters. Readership :
Directed primarily at the beginner researcher, this book also
offers a practical refresher in this important area for the more
experienced researcher. It is a useful tool for all practitioners
and researchers in information organizations, whether libraries,
archives, knowledge management centres, record management centres,
or any other type of information service provider.1. The nature of
qualitative research 2. Evaluating qualitative research 3.
Qualitative research design in information organizations 4. Case
studies in information organizations 5. Laying the foundations for
fieldwork 6. Beginning fieldwork 7. Observation 8. Interviewing 9.
Group discussion techniques 10. Historical investigation - Sydney
J. Shep 11. Recording fieldwork data 12. Analysing qualitative data
from information organizations 13. Writing qualitative research
reports 14. Human resources in knowledge management: a case study
15. Select bibliography - Adela Clayton
The International Yearbook of Library and Information Management is
a thematic, refereed annual publication in the field of library
science and information management worldwide. Each volume contains
substantive chapters covering current issues, emerging debates and
trends, and models of best practice and likely future developments,
contributed by an internationally respected panel of researchers,
practitioners and academics. The theme for Volume 5, 'scholarly
publishing in an electronic era', has been chosen in view of
significant recent changes in the publishing world and the impacts
that these changes are having on the management of information
provision and on access to information in specific communities. The
first part of the book offers an overview of current trends in
scholarly publishing, and the book is divided into a further six
parts each covering an area of core interest: institutional
perspectives on scholarly publishing; open access initiatives
technical issues in scholarly publishing; use of scholarly
publications; economics and logistics of scholarly publishing;
international issues. Readership: The International Yearbook is
essential reading for information professionals wishing to keep
up-to-date with recent developments in library science and
information management on a global basis.
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