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Reviews 3 pieces of research funded by Reuters, 1994-96, that surveyed the understanding of, and use of information by managers. Whilst managers are well aware of the importance of information, they do not feel in control of their use of it. They are not given all the information they need but at the same time are overwhelmed by too much information. They recognise information as important, but do not know how to value it. They think their organization has information policies, but are rarely aware of what the policies are. They find that their personal and social life can be damaged by the problems of too much information. Librarians and information managers seem not be considered as a solution to these problems. There is a clear market niche for information managers to exploit

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Knowledge management is not simply an extension of information management but requires a company to change its culture and processes using IT to make knowledge easily used and distributed. A survey showed 90% of US and European respondents considered themselves as knowledge intensive businesses and 96% agreed that they could get more value from their knowledge base. As firms turn to knowledge management, text retrieval companies are launching or developing knowledge management products. Describes the Knowledge Network suite of the Canadian firm, Fulcrum Technologies. This software is selling well but Fulcrum is in a precarious position as its traditional customer base is shrinking faster than expected. As another example, refers to the strategy adopted by Dataware technologies for countering cash flow problems by selling part of its operation to build up cash reserves and pinning its future on Dataware 2

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As the most comprehensive reference work dealing with knowledge management (KM), this work is essential for the library of every KM practitioner, researcher, and educator. Written by an international array of KM luminaries, its approx. 60 chapters approach knowledge management from a wide variety of perspectives ranging from classic foundations to cuttingedge thought, informative to provocative, theoretical to practical, historical to futuristic, human to technological, and operational to strategic. The chapters are conveniently organized into 8 major sections. The first volume consists of the sections: foundations of KM, knowledge - a key organizational resource, knowledge processors and processing, influences an knowledge processing. Novices and experts alike will refer to the authoritative and stimulating content again and again for years to come. The second volume consists of the sections: technologies for knowledge management, outcomes of KM, knowledge management in action, and the KM horizon. Novices and experts alike will refer to the authoritative and stimulating content again and again for years to come.

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This study seeks to explore and report international business students' perceptions and expectations of electronic library services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A total of 143 international business students an campus volunteered to fill out a survey. The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics as weIl as inferential statistics such as t-tests and correlation. A significant portion of international business students has no prior experience with electronic library services in their home countries. Moreover, about a half of international business students go to libraries other than the Business and Economics Library, partly because they provide better environment for study. Although electronic resources are available without the constraint of location, providing reference services for those who do not use the Business and Economics Library becomes a challenge. Virtual reference is an excellent tool, but most international business students do not see it as an important library service. Based an the results, implications for information literacy and virtual reference service are discussed.

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It is a time-consuming and difficult task for an individual, a group, or an organization to systematically express and organize their expertise so it can be captured and reused. Yet the expertise of individuals within an organization is perhaps its most valuable resource. Q&A attempts to address this tension by providing an environment in which textual representations of expertise are captured as a byproduct of using the system as a semiautomatic question answering intermediary. Q&A mediates interactions between an expert and a question-asking user. It uses its experience referring questions to expert users to answer new questions by retrieving previously answered ones. If a user's question is not found within the collection of previously answered questions, Q&A suggests the set of experts who are most likely to be able to answer the question. The system then gives the user the option of passing a question along to one or more of these experts. When an expert answers a user's question, the resulting question answer pair is captured and indexed under a topic of the expert's choice for later use, and the answer is sent to the user. Unlike previous work on question-answering systems of this sort, Q&A does not assume a fixed hierarchy of topics. Rather, experts build the hierarchy themselves, as their corpus of questions grows. One of the main contributions of this work is a set of techniques for managing the emerging organization of textual representations of expertise over time by mediating the negotiation of shared representations among multiple experts