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Jurnal PPM: Journal of Malaysian Librarians
Vol. 14, 2020

Figure 1: CILIP’s KM competencies

Thus, what kind of competencies are required to manage knowledge? Interestingly,
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CILIP, the UK library and information association , a chartered body that helps to
develop library and informational professionals, established a competency-based
development program known as Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB). In its
PKSB for KM, CILIP outlines the main competencies (Figure 1). Observing Figure 1,
what KM does overlaps with what LIS does but with additional variations. This is
because KM is more into managing tacit knowledge. What it means is that managing
knowledge requires the basic discipline of LIS.

Based on the author’s own experience in implementing KM, the specifically necessary
additional competencies are change management; developing communities of practices
(CoPs); information and KM systems; knowledge audit and inventory; measurement,
methods, tools and practices; repositories development; and taxonomy development.

LIBRARY, INFORMATION SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE PROCESSES
In both of the definitions of LIS and KM, almost the same process of managing both
entities is clearly described.

The library processes that we are very familiar with are selection, acquisition,
processing that include among others cataloguing and indexing. This is followed by

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