Significance of Knowledge Management in Digital Library

Knowledge Management is resourcefulness by which accomplished Knowledge Management practitioner makes an intellectual apply of Information Technology Systems and the pool of knowledge in an organization to exacerbate competency. The amalgamation of information about an operating environment becomes knowledge and the deployment of knowledge for some strategic actions brings about increased efficiency or competitiveness that is accredited as Knowledge Management. The Knowledge Management has become an orbicular issue and hence, in the present technological state of affairs, the Libraries and Information Centers, Documentation Centers have emerged to engulf in to Knowledge Management environment for effectual propagation of knowledge. Knowledge acquisitions through diverse collection of information especially in electronic form including downloading of information on Internet have proved to be a key element of Knowledge Management particularly in a Digital Library upbringing. In the gamut of Information Technology, the implicit knowledge available in various electronic forms adds a substantial value in Knowledge Management. The explicit knowledge also stands at the same scale with that of the implicit knowledge in the traditional scenario for easy retrieval of information and has proved to be a most viable tool for the user communities at large