Re-inventing the wheel: The re-creation of documents in a bumble-bee organization

Schmidt, Ingbert

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Title

Re-inventing the wheel: The re-creation of documents in a bumble-bee organization

Author(s)

Schmidt, Ingbert

Issue Date

2013-02

Keyword(s)

• knowledge management
• information behavior
• social and community informatics

Abstract

In Library and Information Science our emphasis is typically on facilitating reuse of documents. There are many motivations behind this emphasis, but efficiency and time savings are common motivations. However, participants in an on-going study of knowledge communication practices have a strong tendency to re-create existing documents from scratch, despite the fact that sometimes multiple documents that serve the same purpose already exist in the organization's archive. While at first this behavior seems wasteful, examination of their practices indicate that participants often have good reasons for re-creating documents. These include (a) empowerment, (b) learning, (c) personalization, (d) customization, and (e) simplification.

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iSchools

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/39983

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/13296

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