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Paul R. Burden. Knowledge management: the bibliography. Medford, NJ: Information Today Inc., for the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2000. xi, 181 pp. $22.50 ($18 to ASIST members). 1 57387 101 X.
Among both information professionals and scientists knowledge management (KM) is considered a highly 'hot' and fruitful topic. A bibliography covering such a field is therefore a gift in itself to both practitioners and library and information science students.
However, in our digital age with fast and easy access worldwide to all kinds of bibliographic sources, the raison d'etre of bibliographical tools has changed fundamentally. To be useful in professional or scientific contexts today, a bibliography should aim beyond mere compilation of records and their alphabetical presentation in rough subject categories. Indeed, an appropriate degree of intellectual and analytical value-adding seems necessary to justify publication of pure bibliographic tools.
The bibliography compiled by Paul R. Burden, librarian at the Dominican University in Illinois, contains 2,101 references to books, articles, web sites and videos on KM. The most recent publications date...