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Given the emerging nature of the knowledge management (KM) profession and the differing schools of thought on KM by academics and practitioners, designing a curriculum in KM poses substantial challenges. One of these challenges is to be able to determine the optimal mix of subjects from the various disciplines that best meets the objective of developing the requisite professional competencies of knowledge professional. A two-pronged methodology was adopted for this study comprising a survey research to gather perceptions on KM and KM education as well as an investigation of relevant web sites on the Internet for existing postgraduate programs. The latter was used to support a comparative review of the courses' objectives and curriculum, where available. The study established that the adoption of KM in Singapore was most significant in large organizations and the public sector. However, there were differing perceptions as to who in an organization should be responsible for KM and what full-time KM roles should be in-scaled. Nonetheless, the findings did suggest that there is a potential market for knowledge professionals and reinforced the fact that KM is indeed interdisciplinary and drew upon the theories and practices of a number of disciplines such as information technology, information science, communication, business, and management.

For the analysis of doctoral dissertations in information science in the Republic of Croatia (from 1978 to 2007), keywords are used in order to get an insight into the development of information science. By the method of co-word analysis of keywords with which doctoral dissertations are indexed, a network of clusters that match following scientific disciplines is obtained: archival and documentation science, librarianship, communicology, museology, information science, information systems and lexicography. By cluster and data visualization and the overview of keywords frequency, the development of subjects and the correlation of clusters in information science, during the period of thirty years in which doctoral dissertation are made, is shown. The results of the co-word analysis about the development of information science in the Republic of Croatia are shown according to time periods, but also according to affiliation to certain disciplines inside the information science.