In the knowledge culture, all persons affiliated with the organization understand and accept their responsibilities for knowledge development and knowledge sharing (now generally characterized with the “KD/KS” acronym), and at the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC the organizational knowledge culture is much in evidence. This iconic scientific and publishing institution vcould well be said to epitomize the concept of the knowledge culture, and much of that success has had to do with the leadership of Susan Fifer Canby, the society’s enthusiastic and talented Vice- President for Libraries and Information Services. With management and service delivery responsibility for ensuring that KD/KS is practiced at the highest levels of excellence, Fifer Canby’s success in this work is well known and serves as a model for many in the KM/knowledge services field.
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