The Development of Collaborative Knowledge Management on a Website for Improving Competencies of State Academic Libraries’ Staffs for the ASEAN Community

Abstract

This research aims to 1) develop a model of collaborative knowledge management of state academic libraries’ staffs for the ASEAN Community, 2) develop a collaborative knowledge management website of state academic libraries’ staffs for the ASEAN Community, and 3) evaluate competencies of state academic libraries’ staffs for the ASEAN Community. The sample of this research was 21 service librarians of six state academic libraries. The research results were as follows: 1) Collaborative knowledge management model of state academic libraries’ staffs was evaluated by experts with highly suitable level, called the Col-KM Model. 2) Collaborative knowledge management website of state academic libraries’ staffs was evaluated by specialists with a high level of quality. And 3) The result of evaluation of competencies showed that the competency evaluation of knowledge has average scores after participating in the activity was significantly higher than the pretest scores at the 0.05 level. The average means of competency of attitude assessment were agreed at a high level. And the skill assessment has shown that the scores were at a good level.