Library as a knowledge management centre

What? How? Why? Why Library?

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Diabetes case study◦ Mayo Clinic- Patient Info. Systems- understand Glycemic

Index Vs Calories or Starch Content

◦ Aunt in CA, Cousin in Chennai, Dr. friend in Edinburg

◦ Recipes- from all of these and more resources

◦ Yoga teacher in Lonavla

◦ Best Doc/ hospital- directories; reviews

◦ Medical devices

◦ HR perspective


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Facilitate Networking internally

Facilitate Networking externally

Follow their work

Facilitate Exchange of Ideas- Validate our ideas; cross- pollination of ideas

Facilitate elicitation of info.- groups; podcasts; interviews; guest in blogs; events

Application/ compliance improves with community.

What can we learn from her? From this institution?

How can we leverage our Social Capital? How can we nurture these relationships?


Collect internal and external docs; index and abstract them-keeping functional/ operational/ reuse potential.

Audio visuals/ animations, graphic memory aids are powerful e.g. http://www.utstat.utoronto.ca/vukov/TeachingStats.htm

Large collections of Teaching/ learning resources- e.g.

MERLOT, Annenberg TV series

Academic activities- lesson plans, projects, research

skills, external events calendars, question

banks, competitions, innovation banks

WISHLIST- Wiki for each dept

A blog for each dept

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http://www.utstat.utoronto.ca/vukov/TeachingStats.htm

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Integrated systems; complex systems which can talk to each other; with YouTube -like user-friendly interface. e.g. Mendeley; Academia.edu

Repositories- WS Res.Centre

Networks-communities

Live and virtual events

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Improves learning

Leverages intellectual capital-publications, collaborative projects, conferences

Leverages social capital- for placements; funding

Improves our operational effectiveness-decision-making, new initiatives, Best Practices; Records Management

Fosters innovation

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Natural progression for Lib.- deeper level of engagement

Custodians of documents We work across disciplines- who has govt. contacts?

Industry contacts? Like LINKEDIN Know many experts- authors, speakers… published Know many organizations- publications, events We also have an external focus- suited for collecting

Best Practices Our USP- Store info for easy findability Curating knowledge- Archives; Records Mgt; publishing Keep upto date- CAS Customizing & Personalizing- Ref Service; SDI

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