The knowledge management appears as an important concept for strengthening the core competence of an enterprise in the knowledge economy era of the 21st century. Hence, enterprises’ interest is increased in the knowledge management system as a pract...
The knowledge management appears as an important concept for strengthening the core competence of an enterprise in the knowledge economy era of the 21st century. Hence, enterprises’ interest is increased in the knowledge management system as a practical instrument of the knowledge management.Recently, the university library is transforming rapidly from the traditional library into the digital library to provide many resources of information, but confines itself to stereotypeduniform contents and temporarylimited information services. Thus, the university library should provide the knowledge information that can meet its members’ tasks and studies, and has to convert its hardware-based information services into the software-based information services reflecting its members’ inherent administrative experiences and know how. With respect to this, the university library should introduce the knowledge management system, and promotes the culture of knowledge sharing between the library itself and its members.This study investigates, through examining the existing studies, the necessity of the introduction of the knowledge management system into the university library, and explores an analysis of conditions of system use and a plan for the furtherance of the system focusing on the case of Yonsei University Library’s introduction of the lectureresearch-supporting information system. We have carried out, as methods of study, the analysis of log data, interviews with employees, and research with professors and lecturers from Yonsei University.As a result of the analysis of the log data, we can find out that Yonsei University Library’s introduction of the lectureresearch-supporting information system has only a few effects as a knowledge management system because its availability ratio is low, and its active functions and provided data types have few differences from those provided by the traditional library. With respect to this, we have evaluated the lectureresearch-supporting information system, partly modifying DeLone & McLean’s (1992) model for the characterization of the success in the information system. Then, we have groped for a plan for the furtherance of the system.The results of this study are as follows:First, with respect to system properties, the lectureresearch-supporting information system needs to improve its accessibility and ease of use, and to provide user-based interfaces for supporting communication.Second, with respect to knowledge properties, the lectureresearch-supporting information system needs to increase the quality and diversity of knowledge by providing specialized knowledge by themes, and systematically collecting informalinternal knowledge and implicit knowledge to provide them.Third, for the furtherance of the lectureresearch-supporting information system on the side of strategies of knowledge management, it is desirable for the library to expand personnel responsible for services, and introduce a team-based organization consisting of knowledge-managers by themes. Especially for the furtherance of the knowledge management system, the system needs the university members’ voluntary and cooperative culture for knowledge sharing. Thus, in order to cultivate the voluntary knowledge-sharing culture, the provision of systematic compensation for evaluation is needed.Lastly, in order for the university library to effectively support virtual education, which is expected to be a main method of education in the future, the methodical connection between the university library’s knowledge management system and the virtual education system, as well as the integrated operation, is necessary.