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ebrary announced it has expanded its Library Center to include complimentary ebooks for knowledge managers. The new Library & KM Center now features a growing selection of more than 140 titles along with tools that make it easy to find, use, and manage information online. Register for access at www.ebrary.com/corp/inforequest/librarykmcenter.jsp.

"ebrary has long provided librarians with complimentary access to resources relevant to their community," says Kevin Sayar, president of ebrary. "Now that we have developed products and services for the corporate and government markets, we wanted to include information that can be useful to knowledge managers as well."

New titles added to ebrary's Library & KM Center include the following:

• Knowledge Management: An Evolutionary View, by Irma Becerra-Fernandez and Dorothy Leidner (M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2008)
• Engaged Knowledge Management: Engagement With New Realities,
  by Kevin C. Desouza and Yukika Awazu (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
• Practical Guide to Knowledge Management, by Sue Brelade and Christopher Harman
  (Thorogood, 2003)
• Sharing Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Management, by Mark S. Ackerman, Volkmar Pipek, and Volke Wulf (MIT Press, 2003)
• Knowledge Management Systems for Business, by Robert J. Thierauf (Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1999)

ebrary offers corporations and government organizations a number of integrated products and services including full-text ebooks, handbooks, manuals, and other trusted content in key business and engineering subject areas. The company also offers content hosting services, which turn corporate PDFs of any type into searchable and highly interactive databases. All ebrary products and services feature powerful research capabilities including InfoTools, which turns every word into a portal to additional knowledge within the organization and on the web. For more information, visit www.ebrary.com/corp/corporations.jsp.

Source: ebrary