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Shelling, Jane – Australian Library Journal, 2009
The National Drug Sector Information Service is committed to supporting those who work to prevent or reduce the harm to individuals, families, communities and the nation caused by alcohol and other drugs. This paper describes a project to assist particular members of the alcohol and other drugs sector to improve quality and the transfer of…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Information Literacy, Information Scientists, Information Services
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Hazeri, Afsaneh; Martin, Bill – Australian Library Journal, 2009
As a newly emerging field of study, KM education is faced with significant challenges which continue to evolve. Informed by wider organisational perspectives, this paper presents the findings of recent research into this field. The first part of the research was in the form of an online survey canvassing the views of the wider LIS community on the…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Librarian Attitudes, Interviews, Mail Surveys
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Hepworth, Mark; Smith, Marian – Australian Library Journal, 2008
A joint project carried out by Leeds University and Loughborough University, funded by JISC, studied the information literacy of non academic staff in higher education. The in-depth, qualitative study deployed an information audit, interviews and focus groups with eleven staff in the Finance and Research Departments at Loughborough University. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Focus Groups, Information Literacy, Information Skills
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Ferguson, Stuart; Hider, Philip; Lloyd, Anne – Australian Library Journal, 2008
This paper seeks to establish the state of knowledge of Knowledge Management (KM) among Library and Information Services (LIS) professionals, the extent to which they find positions in the KM sector, the extent to which they practise identifiable KM processes in their work and the adequacy of educational preparation and professional development…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Professional Associations, Foreign Countries, Professional Development
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Costa, Cathy – Australian Library Journal, 2007
This paper explores whether a professional development weblog could support work-based learning in a TAFE Library. The paper includes both a literature review of material dealing with work-based learning in the VET sector, weblogs and their possible use as a professional development tool and an evaluation of a weblog project devised to support…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Educational Practices, Information Literacy, Professional Development
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Martin, Bill; Hazeri, Afsaneh; Sarrafzadeh, Maryam – Australian Library Journal, 2006
This paper looks at the complex web of interrelationships that is emerging as the library and information professions come to terms with the growing phenomenon of knowledge management. This is manifest at one level in the wider organisational and business context, and at another in the professional and employment spheres. Two of the authors are…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Library Services, Information Science Education, Library Research