2.2.2 Choo Management Model Process
Choo (1998), designed five steps knowledge management in process model. This consists of five knowledge based activities namely: identification of knowledge needs, acquisition of knowledge, organisation and storage of knowledge, knowledge distribution or sharing and application or use of knowledge. This model was also adopted by Oluic–Vukovic, (2001). The revision is made up of the following information activities: gathering, refining, organisation, dissemination and use of knowledge. Each type of the model covers the various activities taking place in the management of organisation. Bouthillier and Shearer (2012) adopted this theory and substituted knowledge sharing for knowledge dissemination; for taxonomy and sharing for disseminating. Alegbeleye, (2010) and Nnadozie, (2015) adapted knowledge management process model from Choo (1998).
The knowledge management process model by Nnadozie, (2015) was adopted and modified because Nnadozie limited his model to libraries at where pictorially links to the various aspects of librarianship in several and knowledge management in particular. It shows that knowledge aspects, as managed by libraries, is made up of various information sources. The knowledge management activities manifest in different ways, in various organsations, including university libraries and allied bibliography agencies, they explained that, the success of knowledge on management activities of the library is determined by a number of factors such as: work experience, academic qualification, library, economics and so on. Knowledge management of Nnadozie is a theoretical frame-work that contacts various activities and process associated with the traditional management of these knowledge asset in conventional information related institutions. All these are for library organisation. It does not extend its activities to other organisations in the society which, if it is done, it can be extended to indigenous traditional herbal medical practitioners. Hence, Nnadozie’s (2015) Knowledge management process model is adopted and modified to suit the work.
