Innovative knowledge Utilization through information transfer: A new relationship between libraries and user organizations |
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Authors: | Celeste P M Wilderom |
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Institution: | (1) Free University, P.O. Box 7161, 1007mc Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | In our rapidly changing environment, both profit and non-profit organizations confront an increasing demand for technological,
economic, and social innovation. In response to this demand, organizations are taking on the role of “change agents” by transforming
existing practices into innovative action. Libraries, as centers that accumulate and disperse knowledge, can support these
organizations in their “change agent” roles. This paper delineates the way public libraries can help organizations meet the
increasing need for external information associated with innovation. Policy issues concerned with efficient information transfer
to user organizationss are specified, and two concrete examples of information transfer systems are described. In order to
best utilize existing knowledge,personal-professional assistance in selecting potentially innovative,impersonal written materials is recommended.
Dr. Celeste P. M. Wilderom is an assistant professor at the School of Economics of the Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
and a research associate in organization behavior at the School of Management, S.U.N.Y., Buffalo. NY 14260. Her Ph.D. is in
organizational psychology from S.U.N.Y., Buffalo, Where she taught in the Schools of Management and Social Work. Dr. Wilderom's
research interests are behaviors in service and nonprofit organizations, problems of cross-cultural managemet and educational
issues in the social sciences. |
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