Digital Libraries and the Digital Working Environment: What is Their Effect on Library Staff for Sharing Their Knowledge?

摘要

The development of digital libraries, the mass digitization of cultural heritage resources and the increasing use of electronic information resources both by library staff and users have changed the library environment and played a critical role in managing and disseminating knowledge. This new working environment has transformed the way in which employees share their knowledge. This research project aims to investigate the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that motivate librarians to share knowledge in their workplace. A data gathering tool applied in four European countries (Greece, Czech Republic, Portugal and Slovenia) in order to find out what factors motivate library staff to share their knowledge and manage its flow assists in its dissemination. The Results indicate that library staff acknowledges that the new digital working environment affects the way in which they share knowledge and recognize the importance of the role of intrinsic motivation in knowledge sharing and that team-based culture can benefit the success of knowledge sharing initiatives within libraries. Cross reference of data show similarities and differences from different countries. Finally, a set of Spearman's correlations were used in order to check any connection between the values under research.