Abstract—The present paper aims to investigate the growth
and development of knowledge repositories in India, impact of
knowledge repository on library staff, infrastructure facilities
available in libraries for hosting knowledge repositories and
barriers in providing knowledge resources to users through
knowledge repositories.
Ten KR attached to universities, institutes and other higher
learning centres in the country were selected with the help of
simple random sampling to conduct the study.
The results of the study show that, all the ten libraries under
study have instituted publically accessible digital knowledge
repositories. Establishment of knowledge repositories has made
significant impact on library staff and eight libraries have
adequate ICT infrastructure facilities for hosting knowledge
repositories with sufficient number of terminals for their users
for searching and accessing knowledge resources. Lack of
expertise and lack of training is the major barriers faced by 70
percent of librarians, while providing knowledge resources to
their users through KR.
The paper also puts forward some suggestions derived from
the analysis of data for further improvement of the management
of knowledge repositories.
Index Terms—India, knowledge management, knowledge
repositories, knowledge resources.
The authors are with the Department of Library and Information Science,
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP-202002, India (e-mail:
naushadali.amu@gmail.com, zfriqbal@gmail.com).
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Cite: Naushad Ali P. M. and Jafar Iqbal, "Knowledge Management in the Major Knowledge Repositories in India," International Journal of Knowledge Engineering vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 18-23, 2015.
