Mustafa Sagsan
I do believe that knowledge is the essential part of human being! Data and information are not as much important as knowledge however playing a crucial role in the knowledge hierarchy. As for the wisdom, it is still black box...
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The new conceptions; such as virtual reality, augmented reality, second life, metaverse,
metamodernism, metaliteracy, and metalibrarian, have been discussed in the context of realworld libraries and librarians in the article. The organization of the article has been divided into
four sections, which are interconnected with libraries and librarians. The first section starts with
virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies and underlines the important roles
of the library and librarians. The second section continues the Second Life (SL), which is the preperiod of metaverse, and points out the importance of librarians and libraries. Finally, the fourth
and last section focuses on the metaverse, as it is a new contradictory concept in the digital age,
and discusses the metamodernism within the metaverse age by providing new roles and tasks
for both libraries and librarians, which will be called “metalibrarian” thereafter. A systematic
literature review has been used to position the role of metalibrarians among the other target
groups such as educators, communicators, designers, et al. at the metamodernism age. As the
existing literature indicates that metalibrarians have heavy duties on their shoulders to both
design curricula for the metalibrary users, and manage information resources. Research has
been proposed on the new roles, tasks, responsibilities, and competencies for metalibrarians to
embrace the metaverse environment.
The new conceptions; such as virtual reality, augmented reality, second life, metaverse,
metamodernism, metaliteracy, and metalibrarian, have been discussed in the context of realworld libraries and librarians in the article. The organization of the article has been divided into
four sections, which are interconnected with libraries and librarians. The first section starts with
virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies and underlines the important roles
of the library and librarians. The second section continues the Second Life (SL), which is the preperiod of metaverse, and points out the importance of librarians and libraries. Finally, the fourth
and last section focuses on the metaverse, as it is a new contradictory concept in the digital age,
and discusses the metamodernism within the metaverse age by providing new roles and tasks
for both libraries and librarians, which will be called “metalibrarian” thereafter. A systematic
literature review has been used to position the role of metalibrarians among the other target
groups such as educators, communicators, designers, et al. at the metamodernism age. As the
existing literature indicates that metalibrarians have heavy duties on their shoulders to both
design curricula for the metalibrary users, and manage information resources. Research has
been proposed on the new roles, tasks, responsibilities, and competencies for metalibrarians to
embrace the metaverse environment.
not a new concept, the sharing of tacit knowledge at the social media environment has recently been discussed in the last
decades. There are mainly two important approaches on sharing and capturing the tacit knowledge. The first one is about
the possibility of sharing tacit knowledge by using social networks tools. For example Hildrum (2009) and Lopez-Nicolas and
Soto-Acosta (2010) mentioned that IT can trigger sharing of the tacit knowledge. The second one argues that it is almost not
possible to share tacit knowledge by using IT tools. Sagsan (2003) argued that according to the mental models, transmission
stage is problematic which includes common sharing and diffusion within an organization among stakeholders. Likewise,
Flanagin (2002), Johannessen et al, (2001), Hislop (2001) and Haldin-Herrgard (2000) argued that though tacit knowledge
sharing via IT is almost impossible. This paper argues that social media can be used effectively to increase the tacit knowledge
capacity. As the people need to be contacted from their preferred medium of choice (Fill, 2011) it will be suitable to use
social networks to share the tacit knowledge within organizations. The empirical part of this study concentrated on physicians
in order to understand how the tacit dimension of knowledge capacity could be diffused or captured. Questionnaire had
been conducted to 138 physicians who works in North Cyprus and the regression models indicates that Seniority of
Employees and the Speed of Adaption of Innovation affects both Tacit Knowledge Accumulation and Tacit Knowledge
Transfer.