VINE: Volume 30 Issue 4

Knowledge Management — a case of managing knowledge or organisational learning?

Christine DILS Urquhart

As one of the contributors (Beastall) to this issue of VINE admits, the debate about the meaning and the enactment of knowledge management has been going on for some time. When…

Know How; making the enquiry process work for you

Graham Beastall

How libraries and information centres go about their work is changing. At the heart of this change is both technology and new trends for managing information in the context of…

Why is Knowledge Management difficult to sell?

Alan Birks

This article is a concise overview of Knowledge Management — what does the term mean, who uses KM, what are the benefits? How do we make the process work, and how does it appeal…

Knowledge Management issues in universities

Valerie Ratcliffe‐Martin, Elayne Coakes, Gill Sugden

This paper describes some basic concepts of knowledge management, and explains, using these definitions, why universities are not always seats of learning or knowledge sharing. A…

Knowledge Management in the NHS: half‐full or half‐empty?

Andrew Booth

Healthcare is a knowledge industry evidenced by substantial resources invested in staff development and the production of research evidence. This article examines knowledge…

NHS Knowledge Management in Bradford: the evolution of a service to meet the demands of healthcare professionals

Kim White

Knowledge management and library services are intertwined now to the extent that it is inconceivable that there could not be a partnership between them. This article looks at a…

Knowledgeshare: Managing Knowledge in the new NHS

Peter Fairbrother

This article outlines the development of a Brighton‐based NHS knowledge management project called Knowledgeshare. The project is discussed with reference to knowledge management…

Knowledge Management within the UK Oil Industry: A case study on Knowledge Management implementation within OILEX Ltd

Judith M Smith, Lisa Duncan

A study was carried out at OILEX from September to November 1999 which examined the extent to which the organisation was capturing and sharing its knowledge and experience…

Issues of trust in Knowledge Management

Keith Patrick, Grahame Rourke, Nigel Phillips

A common feature of the Knowledge Management (KM) discourse, written or spoken, and regardless of whether it is technologically or people orientated, is the stress on the…

Managing knowledge

Patricia Hornby‐Atkinson, Susan Hornby

Historically the profession of information work has been related to the collections or where they are stored, for example, librarians worked in libraries; today this idea is…

Evaluation of EndNote 4 Reference Management Software

Paul LITC Sandford

Following earlier comparative evaluations of software for the management of references and citations by Maggie Shapland, reported in LIBS 89/90, February 2000, in which EndNote…