1) The document discusses how a library can serve as a knowledge management center by facilitating the sharing of information from various internal and external resources on topics like diabetes treatment. 2) It proposes ways for the library to leverage relationships and social capital, such as by facilitating networking, validating ideas through cross-pollination, and eliciting information through groups and events. 3) The library is well-suited to serve as a knowledge management center because it already collects, indexes, and provides access to documents; knows many experts and organizations; and can customize services to meet user needs.

1. What? How? Why? Why Library?
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Diabetes case study
◦ Mayo Clinic- Patient Info. Systems- understand Glycemic
Index Vs Calories or Starch Content
◦ Aunt in CA, Cousin in Chennai, Dr. friend in Edinburg
◦ Recipes- from all of these and more resources
◦ Yoga teacher in Lonavla
◦ Best Doc/ hospital- directories; reviews
◦ Medical devices
◦ HR perspective
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Facilitate Networking internally
Facilitate Networking externally
Follow their work
Facilitate Exchange of Ideas- Validate our ideas;
cross- pollination of ideas
Facilitate elicitation of info.- groups; podcasts;
interviews; guest in blogs; events
Application/ compliance improves with community.
What can we learn from her? From this institution?
How can we leverage our Social Capital? How can we
nurture these relationships?
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Collect internal and external docs; index and abstract themkeeping functional/ operational/ reuse potential.
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Audio visuals/ animations, graphic memory aids are powerful
e.g. http://www.utstat.utoronto.ca/vukov/TeachingStats.htm
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Large collections of Teaching/ learning resources- e.g.
MERLOT, Annenberg TV series
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Academic activities- lesson plans, projects, research
skills, external events calendars, question
banks, competitions, innovation banks
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WISHLIST- Wiki for each dept
A blog for each dept
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Integrated systems; complex systems
which can talk to each other; with YouTube
-like user-friendly interface.
e.g.
Mendeley; Academia.edu
Repositories- WS Res.Centre
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Networks-communities
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Live and virtual events
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Improves learning
Leverages intellectual capitalpublications, collaborative projects, conferences
Leverages social capital- for placements;
funding
Improves our operational effectivenessdecision-making, new initiatives, Best
Practices; Records Management
Fosters innovation
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Natural progression for Lib.- deeper level of
engagement
Custodians of documents
We work across disciplines- who has govt. contacts?
Industry contacts? Like LINKEDIN
Know many experts- authors, speakers… published
Know many organizations- publications, events
We also have an external focus- suited for collecting
Best Practices
Our USP- Store info for easy findability
Curating knowledge- Archives; Records Mgt; publishing
Keep upto date- CAS
Customizing & Personalizing- Ref Service; SDI
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THANK YOU
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