The importance of knowledge management in supporting research and development in an academic library
Research and development (R&D) is very common nowadays in which an organization can experience future growth by developing new products or processes to improve and expand their operations. Knowledge management environment, can either lead to the development of new products or procedures, or to t...
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| description | Research and development (R&D) is very common nowadays in which an organization can experience future growth by developing new products or processes to improve and expand their operations. Knowledge management environment, can either lead to the development of new products or procedures, or to the improvement of existing products or procedures. The aim of this paper is to describe the importance of knowledge management in an academic library in supporting the library’s mission which is to provide excellent resources, services and facilities to support the customer’s requirement in enhancing learning, teaching, research and consultancy activities. Academic libraries especially those belonging to research universities should implement knowledge management in enhancing and expanding research based services to the university’s community. |
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| spelling | usm-340872017-05-15T02:17:55Z http://eprints.usm.my/34087/ The importance of knowledge management in supporting research and development in an academic library Samsuddin, Samsul Farid Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources Research and development (R&D) is very common nowadays in which an organization can experience future growth by developing new products or processes to improve and expand their operations. Knowledge management environment, can either lead to the development of new products or procedures, or to the improvement of existing products or procedures. The aim of this paper is to describe the importance of knowledge management in an academic library in supporting the library’s mission which is to provide excellent resources, services and facilities to support the customer’s requirement in enhancing learning, teaching, research and consultancy activities. Academic libraries especially those belonging to research universities should implement knowledge management in enhancing and expanding research based services to the university’s community. Persatuan Pustakawan Malaysia 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/34087/1/5_Syamsul_12.pdf Samsuddin, Samsul Farid (2012) The importance of knowledge management in supporting research and development in an academic library. Jurnal PPM: Journal of Malaysian Librarians, 6. pp. 15-24. ISSN 1823-6308 http://www.myjurnal.my/public/browse-journal-view.php?id=271 |
| spellingShingle | Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources Samsuddin, Samsul Farid The importance of knowledge management in supporting research and development in an academic library |
| title | The importance of knowledge management in supporting research and development in an academic library |
| title_full | The importance of knowledge management in supporting research and development in an academic library |
| title_fullStr | The importance of knowledge management in supporting research and development in an academic library |
| title_full_unstemmed | The importance of knowledge management in supporting research and development in an academic library |
| title_short | The importance of knowledge management in supporting research and development in an academic library |
| title_sort | importance of knowledge management in supporting research and development in an academic library |
| topic | Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources |
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