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. Rosenberg, M. (2001) e-Learning: Strategies for delivering knowledge in the digital age. McGraw-Hill, p. 66.

“Knowledge management supports the creation, archiving, and sharing of valued information, expertise, and insight within and across communities of people and organizations with similar interests and needs.”

Knowledge management systems and their similar “cousins,” content management systems, serve as repositories for information that can be accessed as used as needed it. Content management systems contain a college of learning objects than can be used in related courses and course builders can link to that material for reuse. This is an excellent use of instructional design time and expense. Knowledge management systems contain information pertinent to do various topics relative to the community it serves. Knowledge management systems differ from libraries in that the content is most often created, maintained, and updated by a collaboration of subject matter experts, whereas a library is a database of information that has be categorized, but may not necessarily contain the most up-to-date information.