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Subject:        [sla-dgm] The Knowledge Culture
Date:   Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:14:27 -0400
From:   Guy St Clair <[log in to unmask]>
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Geography and Map Division SLA members and non-member colleagues can
register now for “The Knowledge Culture: Leadership and Knowledge
Services
<http://www.sla.org/content/learn/certificates/kmcert/kmcertificateprogram/KMKS06.cfm>,”
the next course in the Click U Certificate Program in KM/Knowledge
Services, beginning July 13.

We’ve recently heard much about the knowledge culture, and about our
role in developing and sustaining a knowledge culture for our
organizations. Guy St. Clair’s centennial history of SLA (/SLA at 100:
 From Putting Knowledge to Work to Building the Knowledge Culture
<http://www.sla.org/marketplace/stores/1/SLA_at_100_From_Putting_Knowl_P112C2.cfm>/)
predicts that to remain viable, specialist librarians and other
information and knowledge professionals – in their role as knowledge
thought leaders for their organizations – will be required to manage the
organizational knowledge culture.

It is a critical role, and one anticipated in many responses to St.
Clair’s predictions, both in the book and in his presentations. People
are asking: “What’s next?” “How do we do it?” “What’s required for our
organization to function as a knowledge culture?”

The answers are here, in this Click U course. And if you have not
participated in one of these courses, this is a good place to begin (or
to take as an individual course if you do not wish to enroll in the
complete certificate program). In “The Knowledge Culture: Leadership and
Knowledge Services
<http://www.sla.org/content/learn/certificates/kmcert/kmcertificateprogram/KMKS06.cfm>,”
participants focus on their own vision of knowledge management and
knowledge services for the organizations where they are employed. Thus
they are enabled to align their professional vision of the
organizational knowledge culture with the employing organization’s
established business strategy.

As noted, “The Knowledge Culture: Leadership and Knowledge Services
<http://www.sla.org/content/learn/certificates/kmcert/kmcertificateprogram/KMKS06.cfm>”
begins July 13. The course includes three online lectures by Guy St.
Clair, a facilitated live discussion (online) with Guest Participant
Susan Fifer Canby
<http://www.smr-knowledge.com/eProfiles/e-Profile_05-20-09_Canby.pdf> on
Wednesday, July 22, and a wrap-up discussion (online) on Thursday, July 30.

NOTE: Membership in SLA is not required for taking this course, so share
this message with others interested in strengthening their role in
managing the knowledge culture. Your colleagues are welcome to join us
(and compare the registration fee with costs for other KM learning
programs—SLA’s Click U Certificate Program in KM/Knowledge Services is a
great bargain!).

SMR International

/Putting Knowledge Management to Work/

SMR International

527 Third Avenue / Suite 105

New York NY 10016 USA

Tel: +1 212 683 6285 / 917 566 8093

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Website: http://www.smr-knowledge.com/

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