Volume : 3, Issue : 6, June - 2014

Knowledge Portal as a New and Innovative Approach for The Public Libraries in a way of Self Service Application: a Study of Offshoot Technology

Dr. D. K. Shrivastava, Pritima Vyas

Abstract :

Knowledge Portals (KPs) are highly integrative Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) that promise to synthesize widely dispersed knowledge and to interconnect individuals in order to provide a ‘one–stop knowledge shop’. Yet, KPs face major challenges in practice, as the intricacies of knowledge exchange are subject to varied individual and social factors. At the same time, growing anecdotal evidence from case studies indicates KPs’ enormous potential. In this paper, describes the concepts of the knowledge portal, feature, components architecture, process and disadvantage of knowledge portal..It concludes with the remarks that the Public liary and Community Centre Professionals should play a proactive role in the creation of the knowledge portal and accept the advantage offered by the knowledge portal. It also discusses the importance and beneficiary Role of Knowledge Portal for the Public Liaries and also highlighted the various facet and issues of Knowledge Portal. Information and Communication technology (ICT) and it offshoot technologies such as Internet, Intranet, electronic databases, web directories , web Portal and E Portals, Knowledge Portals etc. have played a significant Role in the Public Liaries and Community Centers. Owing to various information needs, integration and collaboration of knowledge, single point access to resources and information technology has changed the scenario of the Public liary and information centers in information organization. Public Liaries and Community Centers are creating a liary portal and knowledge portal to fulfill the need of their users. To cope with these problems Public Liaries and Community Centers have been creating knowledge portal.