Knowledge Management and Academic Libraries in Digital Era: Problems and Positions

Abstract

The development of Knowledge Management in recent years has become a great concern for librarians and libraries. Modern Libraries contribute to business more significantly than traditional libraries. Modern libraries attract users by providing contents in digital form to save their time. This study examine impact of growing congestion in the knowledge resources. The way the knowledge information is being passed to users, traditional libraries are changing into digital libraries. Institutional repositories are being converted into digital forms. The academic libraries are now focusing to deliver the information in the digital form through web, online public access catalogue via internet. That is the way of modern libraries are now called the knowledge libraries or the knowledge stores.