We can do it

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We can do it! or KM in CAT? Get real !
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We are indispensable We are fine (I think
?) Are we?
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Do we have challenges? No!!!! Yes!? I dont
think so I am not sure I am anyway retiring
soon Maybe - but what are those challenges?
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Its easier to kill an organisation than to
change it substantially
Change

• Organisms by design are not made to
• adapt.
• (Tom Peters The Circle of Innovation)

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Librarians and KM

• Recently there is a shift from KM to Intellectual
  capital or intellectual assets
• Knowledge management, librarians and information
  managers fad or future.
• Brendan Loughridge in New Library World (1006)
  1999.

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Fad or Fact or something in between?

• (but) an attempt to make sense of managing
  information as a strategic resource on a par of
  managing people, material, resources or money
  Brendan Loughridge
• With the establishment of information
  infrastructure the interface needed between
• Man and machine,
• codified and tacit knowledge
• Culture and economy
• Knowledge and its consumers
• (Qihao Miao)
• The new world of work

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KM bricks (mortar and the rest)

• What is the make up of KM
• Three cornerstones
• Can we manage knowledge?
• Spare us the Jargon please!!?

Initiative is doing things that you arent
expected to do.
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Try to convince me!

• Knowledge
• Tacit and explicit
• The story of the .
• Bushmen of the Kalahari

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• To KM or not to KM
• Knowledge management defined
• Knowledge management strategy - why
• Elements of KM

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Why choose to implement KM in libraries?

• Budget
• expectation of
• academic libraries
• Other?

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APPLICATION ?

• Is it possible to reduce the intellectual effort
  of the cataloguer in the cataloguing process?
• Is human interpretation of AACR2 opposing the
  rigid application of rules?

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Does the cat dept have concerns?

• Concerns
• Cataloguing
• Time consuming
• First to automate
• Options to consider
• Expert systems

Mother said that thered be days like this but
really so many?!
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OTHER KM SHARING PROCESSES TO CONSIDER
We make a living by what we get we make a life
by what we give
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And the verdict

• Cataloguing rules are extremely comprehensive
  and complicated to use
• (Alenka auperl and J.D. Saye)

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future? !
Barriers Roles for creating knowledge
awareness
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Tom Peters (again and adapted)

• Turn every cataloguer into a self sufficient, de
  facto independent consultant fabulously good
  at something! (You decide)
• CALL IT PROFESSIONALISM

• Routinely push your clients (infos, subject
  librarians, acquisitions staff?) hard to
  places they could never have imagined.
• CALL IT
• PROVOCATION

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Forbes ASAP

• If you are not bloodying your nose in todays
  warp speed economy, we have a name for you.
  Dead.
• Thank you.
• Marié Botha

Success is the maximum utilization of the
ability you have