MEANING AND FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE.

2. MEANING AND CONCEPT OF KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge stands for:-
 Facts information and skills acquired by a person
through experience or education.
 The theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.
 Awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact
or situation
 Knowledge is a meaningful structure of facts into some
relationships.

3. IMPORTANCE OF KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge is a powerful and important part of
life.
A famous Sanskrit verse says that ‘ an educated
person is honoured everywhere’..
Power of knowledge should not be used for a
destructive purpose.

4. CHARACTERISTICS OF KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge is like wealth, the more he gets, the
more he craves.
Knowledge never decays.
Facts and values are the basis of the structures of
knowledge.
Knowledge is boundless
It exists to be imparted.

5. TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE
 PRIORI KNOWLEDGE
POSTERIORI KNOWLEDGE
EXPERIENCED KNOWLEDGE.

6.  The literal meaning of a priori is from before or from
earlier.
 A priori is the knowledge that is attained independently
of experience.
 It means there are certain assumptions that one can
take for granted.
 This knowledge is non-empirical. (empirical means
originating or based on observation or experience)

7.  A posteriori literally mean from what comes later or from
what comes after.
 It is the knowledge which is gained through experience.
 A posteriori knowledge depends on experimental ; l
evidence or warrant.
 This knowledge is empirical, arrived at afterword.
 Truths of physics, chemistry, and biology are instances of
a posteriori knowledge.

8. It is always tentative and cannot
exist prior to experience or be
conducted from observation.

10. CONCLUSION
Knowledge creation is best performed by universities.
As a learning and knowledge organization, universities
should empower their libraries to develop campus-
wide knowledge management systems.
It is now time for libraries to reposition themselves in
the central stage of and as a leading player in
knowledge management.

11. THANK YOU!