Seeding a community of interest: the experience of the knowledge library project
Andrew Cox
(Andrew Cox is based in the Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.)
Keith Patrick
(Keith Patrick is based in Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, London, UK.)
Rahman Abdullah
(Rahman Abdullah was formerly in LITC at South Bank University, London, UK.)
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Abstract
The paper reports on the early lessons learned in the process of forming an online community for librarians from different organisations and sectors to discuss knowledge management. Time, critical mass, diversity of membership, focus, information and communication technology, incentives, concepts of membership, services and leadership were all factors in the slow coalescing of the group as an active self‐sustaining network.
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Citation
Cox, A., Patrick, K. and Abdullah, R. (2003), "Seeding a community of interest: the experience of the knowledge library project", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 55 No. 4, pp. 243-252. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012530310486601
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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