Paper Title
The Impact of Knowledge Management on Business Advancement in Umaru Musa Yar’adua University Library, Katsina. Nigeria
Abstract
Knowledge management is one of the most important aspect for the growth and development of business
management among our libraries. This paper discuses the impact of knowledge management on business advancement in
Umaru Musa yar’adua University Library. Survey research was used and questionnaire was the instrument for data
collection. Library staffs in the relevant division and unit constitute the population of the study. The study identifies among
the other things that wider awareness of the knowledge management among the libsrarians and information managers yet
remain unclear. The study also opined that library and information professionals regard their skills as being relevant to the
practice of knowledge management. Also, it was concluded that knowledge and experiences of library staff are the
intellectual assets of any library and should be valued and shared. The paper among other things recommended that there is
need to establish the ways in which academic librarians of Umaru Musa Yar’adua university libraries could add value to
their service by engaging in to knowledge management.
Key words- Data, information, IT, knowledge.