My view point
A knowledge manager has to do more than handle published information
(including grey literature) - which is what a librarian does.
A KM also has to overall look at integrating the above, with tacit
knowledge, other forms of information and knowledge, and also manage the
overall technology elements.
A medical librarian has to know a lot more than medical librarianship to
become a Medical Knowledge Manager.
A medical librarian can definitely become a Medical Knowledge Manager so
long as he / she continuously updates himself / herself to know at least
enough of the related areas to handle Knowledge Management.
In any field however, today's scenario is that an IT person seems to be more
recognized as a knowledge manager that is a librarian. My personal belief is
that the person who can be assigned this "label" should have strong
expertise in one area (IT, Domain, Information resources and management),
and core expertise in the other two.
Vasumathi Sriganesh
Director, QMed Services Pvt. Ltd.
A-3, Shubham Centre, Cardinal Gracious Road
Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400099, India
Ph: 91-22-28229223 Fax: 91-22-28224358
Mobile: 98211-14510
Email: vasu@qmedin.com, Web: www.qmedin.com
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