THE CHANGING ROLE OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: Knowledge Organization Perspective.

摘要

The academic institutions are struggling to capitalize on their knowledge depositories due to lack of integration in the library systems. These institutes are using multiple systems to manage their knowledge resources which have created some ambiguities in user's minds from where to retrieve relevant information. Therefore, the need has been felt for providing one window access through a unified resource management system and enriching library catalogues for easy access to these resources. This case study presents the idea of using the library system as a simple knowledge organization tool by integrating the metadata of knowledge repositories into library system. The sources of data were: literature review, documents, personal communications with experts and authors experiences of implementation of project. Review of literature reveals that there is wide gap on relevant literature in the context of institutional knowledge organization in Saudi Arabia. This study is an effort to identify and fill the gap in the context of unified resource management system measurement. To the best of knowledge to the researchers, the current study is a first attempt to address this gap by sharing its successful implementation through integrated library management system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]