Digital Directions in Academic Knowledge Management: Visions and

The expansion of the Digital Initiatives program beyond archives and special collections is creating new paradigms and opportunities in collaboration across the University of Toledo. Shifting economic realities and priorities, however, have prompted academic institutions to realign services in support of online learning, electronic publishing, and other high-priority strategic goals. Legacy projects to digitize collections of photographs, recordings, rare books, historical newspapers, and maps remain important, but archives and academic libraries may consider new directions in academic knowledge management. In fact, strategies and practices rooted in knowledge management may help academic institutions develop innovative services and resources, promote new paradigms for collaboration, improve workflows, and operate more efficiently. This paper focuses on Digital Initiatives projects the University of Toledo Libraries undertaken during its first year. The paper presents definitions and key concepts in knowledge management (KM) and addresses how institutions can use academic knowledge management as a context for the DI program. Three knowledge domains — scholarly, curricular, and operational