By SAcadia | October 21, 2016
IASSIST proudly sponsored a full-day conference about knowledge management (KM) on August 12, 2016 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA at the University of Cincinnati. The theme of the conference was Sharing Practices and Actions for Making Best Use of Organizational Knowledge in Libraries.The conference took place as part of the International Federation of Library Associations’ (IFLA) annual conference held this year in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
The KM conference featured two keynote speakers: Valerie Forrestal, author of the 2015 book Knowledge Management in Libraries, and Jay Liebowitz, whose most recent book Successes and Failures of Knowledge Management was published just this year.
In addition to the keynotes, we had six scholarly presentations from information professionals on a variety of KM topics. Five of the accepted papers are available full-text. Outside of the United States, we had speakers and audience members visit us from Canada, China, and Iran.
The entire IFLA Knowledge Management Section thanks IASSIST for their sponsorship of the conference. In the future, we hope that our section can work collaboratively with IASSIST in the shared interest of information, knowledge, and data topics worldwide.
I hope to see many of you at IASSIST 2017 in Lawrence, Kansas!
Spencer Acadia, IFLA KM 2016 Program Chair and Standing Committee Member, acadias1@gmail.com