Indigenous knowledge is localized within a particular community and not often shared with the rest of the world. The purpose of this issue is to publish articles covering a wide area on research and distribution of indigenous knowledge. Issues covered include: copyright, protection, preservation, role of ICT, ethics, policies, storytelling and role of libraries and archives in indigenous knowledge and systems.

Libraries all over the world are undergoing many changes. Despite the evolution of services which libraries have seen in recent years, library services will continue to change more, possibly at an even greater rate over the next decade than the last, given the current rate of technological advances and growth of information resources and devices. The librarians make a significant contribution to the library being a knowledge hub.

Technological changes are resulting in a proliferation of information, new forms of media, and new means of accessing written material. Many of these changes have occurred rapidly and their consequences are hard to predict broadly across the society.

The evolving needs of users have obliged libraries to effectively manage knowledge resources and services. As users need to access knowledge and information contents more often than ever, libraries have more responsibilities to ensure the provision and access of knowledge sources and services as required. Knowledge management is a set of techniques and practices that facilitate the flow of knowledge into and within an organization. This special issue of “Knowledge management in libraries” is aimed at collecting both theoretical and empirical papers that contribute to the concepts and applications of knowledge management in libraries. Papers are invited from library professionals, researchers and experts on the following and related topics.