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Knowledge Management Systems In Museums: The Next Generation For Assimilating Museum Information Resources In An Electronic Environment, Diane Ignjatovic

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

This thesis focuses on knowledge management practices, tools, and systems and how it can play a vital role for managing collections in museums. The purpose of knowledge management would be to control information across disparate collections and departments within museums. The process of gathering. collecting and storing various data will help institutions achieve cost-effective solutions for a successful information management system. Implementing the concept and applications of knowledge management would create a culture that would encourage knowledge sharing among curators, registrars, directors of development and exhibition designers, to name a few. Further, it would establish museum-wide shared resources that would …