Michael E. D. Koenig

• PhD, MBA, MS,, BA
• Professor Emeritus at Long Island University

Resumen Innovation begins with novelty that typically has its origin in small organizations, start-ups and spin-offs, that most often provide new products and services, and are then often acquired by larger organizations. These fledgling organi- zations do not have the professional staff to assess information sources and to organize a wel...

A computerized serials record and control system developed in 1968/69 for the Technical Information Department of Pfizer Inc. is described and subjected to a cost analysis. This cost analysis is conducted in the context of an investment decision, using the concept of net present value, a method not previously used in library literature. The cost an...

This chapter updates earlier research that analyzed mergers, collaborations, and similar trends in LIS education, and provides a more comprehensive current summary of those trends. Three distinct patterns are beginning to emerge in both organizational structure and collaboration: changes in the nature of LIS program partnerships within parent educa...

In 2002, Tom Wilson argued about knowledge management (KM) "that the bandwagon lacks wheels". In the same issue of the same journal, Leonard Ponzi and Michael Koenig posited that KM was perhaps "in the process of establishing itself as a new aspect of management". Who was correct? This article examines bibliographic evidence to conclude that the la...

Videogames are important cultural and economic artifacts. They also present challenges that anticipate the problems inherent in any complex digital interactive system. Not only are they digital and hence very difficult to preserve but they also are software ...

Knowledge Management (KM) is an effort to increase useful knowledge in the organization. It is a natural outgrowth of late twentieth century movements to make organizational management and operations more effective, of higher quality, and more responsive to constituents in a rapidly changing global environment. This document traces the evolution of...

It is quite obvious to anyone who has studied the phenomenon of social media that the future of knowledge sharing is through the easy to use social software that is free or inexpensive and can reside not only on a PC but on any mobile device on in the “cloud.” Often called Web 2.0 applications, these applications that ease communication and therefo...

One of the most beneficial applications of knowledge management is its role in advancing organization knowledge and the role knowledge plays in making decisions. A decision, according to Mintzberg et al. [1976], is “a specific commitment to action (usually a commitment of resources)” (p. 246) and a decision process is “a set of actions and dynamic...

One measure of the influence of a discipline is to track the “formal communications” or published works in that discipline [Koenig, M., 2005, Ponzi, L., 2004]. Ponzi observed that “knowledge management is one emerging discipline that remains strong and does not appear to be fading”[Ponzi, L., 2004, p. 9]. Articles about KM were and are being publis...

Knowledge management or knowledge sharing manifest themselves in many ways in the workplace; that may include ordinary events, such as facilitated meetings or informal conversations or more complex interactions that require information and communication technology. Since building knowledge may require the analysis and synthesis of information, the...

This chapter provides an overview of the development of research findings and theories related to knowledge management.

Knowledge is power, but this is especially true for teams carrying out a project. As in other arenas, the effective use of knowledge is possible only if it is readily accessible, well organized, properly analyzed, and competently disseminated to meet the project needs. Knowledge gained from project failures or successes is vital for the long term s...

The panel will discuss the growing challenges in knowledge management education. Particularly they will debate and share their visions and experiences on following issues: What are the career opportunities for students graduated from KM program? What skills and knowledge should we empower our students in KM program? What are the challenges in KM ed...

Reviews with 25 years' hindsight four key articles originally published in Volume 1 of Education for Information in 1983, and discusses the extent to which they remain relevant in 2007.

KM is no ordinary management fad -- first, it has legs, it is not fading away, and second it clearly is relevant to and overlaps greatly with librarianship. Despite the obvious overlap with librarianship, our field has done comparatively poorly in capitalizing on that overlap. The KM movement has gone through a number of stages, and it is now movin...

A study was undertaken of the teaching load for full-time faculty at the 30 institutions with American Library Association (ALA)-accredited programs that offer the Ph.D. degree. The principal conclusion was that a 2+2 teaching load is the overwhelming standard among the 30 institutions with ALA-accredited master's in science (MS) in library and inf...

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Several major econometric studies have looked at mergers and acquisitions (M&As) across various industries and concluded that, in general, there is no synergy created or released by M&A activity. This investigation concentrates upon research and development (R&D) performance in the pharmaceutical industry to examine the impact of M&A activity on co...

This paper discusses the concept of the "Open Academic Library". The idea refers to a freely available metadata set about academic publications. The paper discusses emmergence and sustainability of such libraries.

The role for librarians in knowledge management (KM) in terms of designing information systems, creating classification systems and taxonomies, and implementing and operating those systems is obvious. Not so obvious is a key role for librarians in user education and training. A recent study by KPMG of KM systems implementations reveals an alarmingl...

Knowledge management is a subject of a growth body of literature. While capturing the interest of practitioners and scholars in the mid-1990s, knowledge management remains a broadly defined concept with faddish characteristics. Based on annual counts of article retrieved from Science Citation Index , Social Science Citation Index , and ABI Inform r...

This research includes both a descriptive and an exploratory study of seventeen library and information science (LIS) education academic units or programs that have been involved in mergers or administrative realignments that have positioned them in new organizational homes between the years 1982-2001. These LIS schools have been subject to a proce...

Describes stages of knowledge management and discusses how librarians can bridge the gap with the business world in order to attribute the needed skills to librarianship and information science. Topics include information technology; organizational culture and learning organizations; content management and taxonomies; and software selection. (LRW)

The rich body of literature examining communications flow in the research context, an area where Professor Belver Griffith made major contributions, has very direct relevance to the relatively newly emerging recognition in the business community of the importance of knowledge creation and deployment to the competitive performance of an organization...

For the last decade and a half the business community has seen what appears to be one fad after another. To a surpris-ing (and greatly under-recognized) degree, however, those fads, that these enthusiasms are facets of, constitute one major theme – the importance of information and its skillful use to the success of the modern corporation. Libraria...

This study compares the perceptions of users of several US Government libraries that have been contracted out as to the quality of the library service they receive, with the perceptions of users of several US Government libraries that have not been contracted out. The summary conclusion is that there seems to be surprinsingly little difference in t...

There are two key problems in designing curriculum for knowledge management (KM). The first is that what the business community means by KM is in many cases not what the academic community understands the term to mean. Second, professional schools while providing the educational background needed for subsequent more senior positions, tend to educat...

This article proposes that there is a recognizable and predictable life cycle to important general enabling technologies such as the railroad, or the telephone, or the “Net.” This life cycle, in simple terms, consists of three stages: A stage of experimentation and development; a stage of societal concern with issues of equity and access, with conc...

Discusses the current business enthusiasm for intellectual capital and knowledge management and how the librarian should, in principle, take center stage in the intellectual capital and knowledge management process. Proposes a general prescriptive for the process and the librarian's potential role therein. Specifically, recommends initiating this p...

L'expression capital intellectuel resume en deux mots un des grands themes apparus depuis deux ans dans les ouvrages de gestion. Le concept qu'elle exprime est fort simple: il part du constat qu'une des composantes essentielles de la valeur, de l'autorite ou de l'efficacite d'une entreprise tient au savoir, a la competence et a l'information detenu...

Two major and apparently contradictory themes have emerged and taken center stage in the management literature in the last several years—the “productivity paradox” and “business process reengineering.” These apparently contradictory themes are in fact logically related to each other, and the theme of this piece is that we are on the cusp of emergin...

This paper posits that there is a fundamental and less than adequately recognized tension underlying information policy issues. That tension is between the nature of infor mation as inherently a value-added product and the nature of information as a commodity with compelling 'public good' characteristics and with unique properties of trans ferabili...

Reviews literature on the relationship between small businesses and the information sources and providers available to them; the use of information by small businesses; and the state of the information technology adoption process by small businesses, particularly as it relates to small-business information use. Also comments on changes in small-bus...

We have recently begun the third stage of the electronic information revolution — what we will probably come to call the Internet Age. This may seem pretty obvious, but let me try to present it in a fashion that perhaps makes it more compelling and hints more effectively at what the consequences will be.

A NUMBER OF FACTORS have converged to compel a substantial reassessment of the educational requirements for library-orien ted careers in information management. These factors include: the role of technology and the convergence of domains that it has produced, the growth of special library and corporate employment, the growth of information industry...

The article discusses th emergence of cost recovery in terms of four major developments: 1) the increasing quantification of management methods; 2) the convergence of the archipelago of information services; 3) the shift in the world economic community toward market mechanisms; and 4) increased managerial awareness of the importance of information...

There are a number of issues affecting the pricing of CDROM technologies, but two of them are both contentious and could potentially have a serious impact upon the field. Their resolution at the moment is not clear. Since CDROM technology holds great potential for library service, and it is particularly attractive in the context of the less well de...

We take for granted a world of bibliographic and text retrieval in which all of the major systems look very similar and depend upon explicit boolean retrieval commands, offering no alternative retrieval mechanisms. This similarity is not intrinsic to the requirements of automated information retrieval systems, but is in fact mere historic happensta...

Reviews and analyzes the literature on the relationship of library and information services to the productivity of the organization they support. Studies are included that examine the value of information services, the overall effect of information on industrial productivity, characteristics of productive organizations, and characteristics of produ...

In order to manage library or information functions you must be able to persuasively communicate with your management. To accomplish this, you must communicate in the language of your management, marshalling trendy and persuasive points on your own behalf With that as a given, there has been a very heartening development over the last few years for...

This article presents the hypothesis that perestroika, the restructuring of the Soviet economic system, and perestroika's companion glasnost, or openness, are primarily a consequence of the development of information technology. Perestroika is fundamentally a first order consequence of preceived inadequacy in the traditional mechanisms for structur...

Discussion of library information systems focuses on the idea of including user-supplied data (USD) in libraries' automated catalogs. Hypertext is mentioned, the information explosion and the ability to selectively retrieve information is considered, and the value of user input in evaluating the relevance of material is discussed. (12 references) (...

Au cours des dix dernieres annees, on a constate un accroissement remarquable, globalement le passage au quintuple, de l'attention portee a l'information et a la technologie de l'information dans la litterature concernant la gestion. Ce phenomene resulte de plusieurs preoccupations et sujets particuliers qui n'ont que peu de lien. Parmi les causes...

This paper traces the development of a course within a graduate school of business on the subject of how to locate and retrieve business-related information. The course is, however, taught by faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. The conclusions drawn are that such a course is eminently practical but that if offered as...

There is a very important principle in financial management, one so basic that it has never really been named. The sort of title that might be attached to it—for example, the principle of minimum non-allocated cost—is dull and unexciting. Therefore, a metaphoric name—the principle of “minimum unsprung weight”—has been borrowed for this article.

A four-stage hypothesis of information systems development is presented. The stages derive from the application of Moore's Law—that the number of elements that can be integrated onto a chip is doubling roughly every year—the expression of the very rapid exponential rate of growth of information systems technology, and the application of Mooers' Law...

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Four basic components that should be stressed in education for serials librarianship, and that are frequently not part of a core curriculum, are delineated. They are: Knowledge of the capabilities of computers and telecommunications systems, particularly the trends in technological capability; knowledge of scholarly communications, the mechanisms a...

Fiber optics has the capability to dramatically increase telecommunications capability and lower costs. This article examines fiber optic technology, explains some of the key terminology, and speculates about the way fiber optics will change our world.

This article discusses the relationship between sci-tech libraries and serials agents, noting that the handling of sci-tech journals is a particularly lucrative market for the serials agent, owing both to the high cost and to the relative tractability of sci-tech journals. The two principal pricing algorithms of serials agents are described and the...

Recent advances in the development and use of data base management systems have created a new and far more central role for librarians. This results from the increased recognition of the importance of information requirements determination and the data dictionary/directory. As the use of DBMS becomes standard, and as data administration becomes inc...

In the light of recent discussion, the economic impact upon libraries of dual pricing of serials is examined. The conclusion is that dual pricing, and even the phenomenon of more rapid price increases for library subscriptions than for individual subscriptions may well be advantageous to libraries. By decrying dual pricing, librarians may be inviti...

Addresses problem of vertical stratification (belief that career path must be pursued in one type of library) in academic research librarianship. Highlights include job opportunities; misconceptions concerning inappropriate specialization and nature of academic research library management; consequences of institutional, individual, and professional...

The increasing importance of DBMSs (DataBase Management Systems) and the recognition of the information dependency of business planring, are in effect creating major new job opportunities for librarians/information technicians. Furthermore those positions will have an importance and a criticality to an organization far superior to that of the conve...

This study compares bibliometric indicators versus expert judgment as indicators of the research performance of major pharmaceutical companies, a context which may be uniquely capable of permitting such a comparison. For each company, a refined composite research output score was calculated based on that company's drug output (1965–1976). These res...

This study examines pharmaceutical research from a bibliometric perspective. It finds that there are bibliometric correlates of successful pharmaceutical research, in particular, the number and proportion of star (highly cited) clinical medical articles. The research also reveals that pharmaceutical company research reported in basic biomedical res...

A survey of special librarians/information officers in major industrial corporations reveals major discrepancies between what practitioners regard as important and what library schools traditionally regard as necessary core of field. Recommendations for library education, including involvement in the accreditation process, are derived. Eighteen ref...

The relationship between indicators of and expert judgement of, research performance were compared in the context of mission oriented pharmaceutical research. Expert judgment is very highly correlated with measures of publication activity, much more so than with very plausible measures of research output and research quality. Furthermore, expert ju...

Discusses the information explosion as it relates to the emergence of the information handling capability explosion, or the use of computer technology, citing library network online databases as evidences of information control. (EJS)

A design for an on-line serials decision-making and collection analysis system is proposed. It is composed of four basic components: citation data, conventional serial records data, utility/cost ratio compilation and journal ranking techniques, and user interface software. The system would have the ability to respond specifically to user interest p...

An examination of the occurrence of data elements within the various indexes and bibliographies produced by the 15 intergovernmental organizations of the United Nations system revealed a classic Bradford distribution. Interestingly, in this case the data is the number of types, not tokens. Implications for bibliographic unification are discussed.

This paper describes the potential for bibliometric analysis of citation data from the literature of the arts and humanities. To date, such analyses have been very limited, due to the subject orientation of most bibliometric researchers and to the lack heretofore of an appropriate citation data base. Opportunities are opening up for bibliometric re...

The classification of journal titles into fields or specialties is a problem of practical importance in library and information science. An algorithm is described which accomplishes such a classification using the single-link clustering technique and a novel application of the method of bibliographic coupling. The novelty consists in the use of two...

The document provision function, operating between publishers (suppliers) and libraries (customers) has typically been provided by not-for-profit organizations. It is argued that this has evolved because heretofore the combination of technology and copyright law has allowed the economic interest of the supplier to be ignored. The new copyright law,...

We introduce a new hybrid approach to joint estimation of Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) for high quantiles of return distributions. We investigate the relative performance of VaR and ES models using daily returns for sixteen stock market indices (eight from developed and eight from emerging markets) prior to and during the 2008 fi...

A file structure is proposed which makes use of a fragment code and patterns and "families" of patterns to accomplish on-line substructure searching.