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Knowledge management (KM) is frequently presented as a recent development born entirely of the business world. However, the intellectual origins of knowledge management are both deeper and broader than have been posited in the literature to date. Influences of philosophy, economics, education, psychology, information and communication theory, and library and information studies have been almost completely overlooked. This book links current and historical works to the development of knowledge management across domains and disciplines to give students and scholars a deeper appreciation of the origins of KM and a better understanding of its intellectual origins, its concepts, and principles. Through his thorough and critical examination of historical and more recent classic works, Wallace demystifies this important, emerging area of study. An essential and fascinating read for LIS faculty, students, and practitioners; required reading for courses in Knowledge Management.

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• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 The Nature of Knowledge(p. 11)
• "The Logic of Tacit Inference," in Knowing and Being: Essays by Michael Polanyi, edited by Marjorie Greene (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969), 138-58. First published 1964(p. 15)
• "Epistemology without a Knowing Subject," in Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (Oxford: Clarendon, 1972), 106-52. (An address given on 25 Aug. 1967, at the Third International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 25 Aug. to 2 Sept. 1967; first published in the proceedings of this Congress, ed. B. van Rootselaar and J. F. Staal, Amsterdam, 1968, pp. 333-73)(p. 22)
• "Question-Negotiation and Information Seeking in Libraries," College and Research Libraries 29 (May 1968): 178-94(p. 25)
• The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)(p. 29)
• 2 Communities of Practice(p. 37)
• Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (New York: Macmillan, 1928)(p. 45)
• Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)(p. 54)
• 3 Organizational Learning and Learning Organizations(p. 67)
• "Organizational Learning: Observations toward a Theory," Administrative Science Quarterly 10 (September 1965): 175-203(p. 70)
• The Systems Approach (New York: Delta, 1968)(p. 74)
• Organizational Learning: A Theory of Action Perspective (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1978)(p. 78)
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (New York: Doubleday, 1990)(p. 83)
• 4 Intellectual Capital and the Knowledge Economy(p. 93)
• "Of Property," in The Second Treatise of Government: An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government, student edition, edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Laslett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), 285-302. First published 1690(p. 95)
• The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1962)(p. 97)
• Information through the Printed Word: The Dissemination of Scholarly, Scientific, and Intellectual Knowledge (New York: Praeger, 1978-80)(p. 97)
• Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution, and Economic Significance (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980-83)(p. 97)
• "The Knowledge Economy," in The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society (New York: Harper and Row, 1969), 263-86(p. 100)
• Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998)(p. 103)
• 5 Knowledge Sharing(p. 109)
• Invisible Colleges: Diffusion of Knowledge in Scientific Communities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971)(p. 111)
• Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995)(p. 115)
• "Exploring Internal Stickiness: Impediments to the Transfer of Best Practice within the Firm," Strategic Management Journal 17 (Winter 1996): 27-43(p. 118)
• 6 Knowledge Representation(p. 123)
• "As We May Think," Atlantic Monthly, July 1945, 101-8(p. 128)
• "What's Important about Knowledge Representation?" Computer 16 (October 1983): 22-27(p. 132)
• "Where Is Meaning When Form Is Gone? Knowledge Representation on the Web," Information Research 6 (January 2001), http://informationr.net/ir/6-2/paper93.html(p. 134)
• 7 Content Management(p. 141)
• "Something About Bibliography," in International Organization and Dissemination of Knowledge: Selected Essays of Paul Otlet, translated and edited by W. Boyd Rayward (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990), 11-24. First published 1903(p. 146)
• World Brain (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1938)(p. 149)
• "Information Management: A Proposal" (unpublished report, CERN, 1989)(p. 152)
• "Collection Development and Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century: From Collection Management to Content Management," in Collection Management for the 21st Century: A Handbook for Librarians, edited by G. E. Gorman and Ruth H. Miller (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997), 3-25(p. 155)
• 8 Taxonomies and Ontologies(p. 163)
• Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalog (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1875)(p. 177)
• "Social Epistemology, General Semantics, and Librarianship," Wilson Library Bulletin 35 (June 1961): 767-70(p. 180)
• "Ontologies," Journal of Information Science 23 (1997): 277-86(p. 184)
• 9 Informatics and Information Technology(p. 191)
• The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950)(p. 198)
• "Towards a Person-Centered Computer Technology" (paper presented at the ACM National Conference, Atlanta, GA, 1973)(p. 206)
• "What Is Social Informatics and Why Does It Matter?" D-Lib 5, no. 1 (1999), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/kling/01kling.html(p. 206)
• 10 The Future of Knowledge Management(p. 219)
• Index(p. 229)

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Library Journal Review

Wallace (Univ. of Oklahoma LIS) makes an important contribution to the knowledge management (KM) literature by explicating KM within a rich historical and multidisciplinary context. Organized by thematic chapters ranging from epistemology to systems thinking and learning organizations to taxonomies to KM itself, the book relies on key papers for each. While some papers, like Adrianna Kezar's work on organizational learning, are omitted, overall Wallace is thorough. Wallace's carefully detailed discussions and numerous references to the primary KM literature in many disciplines make the book well suited for a library science and/or KM textbook. The only fault is that the primary literature cited is not included--Wallace's discussions are so intriguing, one feels compelled to seek out the cited papers. Highly recommended for library science, organizational development, knowledge management, and related academic library collections.--Sara Tompson, Univ. of Southern California Lib., Los Angeles (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

The strength of this book lies in the author's ability to pull together diverse philosophies and multiple theories as they relate to this "new" field called knowledge management. Wallace (Univ. of Oklahoma) includes a fair representation of philosophies and highlights the contributions of each, using a writing style that is as simplified as advanced academic-level material permits. Collapsed biographies of philosophers are presented throughout the chapters, permitting readers insight into events that may have influenced their lives and thinking. The layout of the table of contents may cause some confusion and mislead the reader into believing that the book is simply a collection of philosophical essays. In fact, the actual essays are not included at all. Cursory reviews of the chapters, however, should eliminate this misunderstanding and reveal the author's intent. This work recommends itself to library and information science faculty, students, and practitioners, and is considered required reading for courses in knowledge management. It is also useful for people in the computer sciences and human-computer interaction fields. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. B. G. Turner Faulkner University

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Danny P. Wallace was professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman. He was coeditor of RUSA Quarterly , coauthor of Library Evaluation (Libraries Unlimited, 1999), and served on ALA's accreditation committee.