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Managing and standardising the environmental unit for human connection, collaboration, coordination, and loyalty is necessary for knowledge sharing practice. This research examines three factors: trust & relation, teamwork skills and corporate culture that influence library staff knowledge-sharing practice. It investigates the level of knowledge sharing practice among library staff, concentrating on five academic libraries in the Klang Valley of Malaysia. The research utilised the amended Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as the underlying research framework. First, the study examined attitude, perceived behavioural control, and subjective norm towards knowledge sharing intention. Second, it examined the external factors mentioned formerly with the threefold towards knowledge sharing intention. Third, it also discussed the moderating factor (library staff ignorance) between the attitude and knowledge sharing intentions. This research is limited to its external validity because it only surveyed library staff perceptions in the five selected academic libraries. The study used the quantitative research approach to identify and test variables and examine the intentions and perceptions of library staff encountered with significant modifications in knowledge sharing practice from the academic library ecosystem. Thus, a quantitative survey was designed using a google Internet-based questionnaire and carried out to the participants, and then later this was followed by a documentation analysis. The researcher collected data from 474 library staff, including the supporting team, (sample size, 214). As was expected, all the surveyed respondents were librarian employees on the ratified matters regarding academic libraries. The sampling consists of a nonprobability sample using convenience sampling. The data were analysed using the SPSS version 23 and Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The analysis procedure includes descriptive statistics, central tendency, distribution, frequencies, assessment of measurement and structural model to evaluate its reliability and validity, assess the structural model to determine the causal relationships and test the research hypotheses. Based on the analysis, the results found that three variables (teamwork skills, corporate culture, and library staff ignorance) through perceived behavioural control, subjective norm, and intention significantly influence knowledge-sharing practice. The overall score of 0.910 (higher than the approved criterion) indicates that the needed factors were internally consistent. The model as a whole was statistically significant to predict knowledge sharing practice: F(8, 205) = 45.208, p ˂ 0.000b as shown by the ANOVA Table. The overall findings demonstrated that academic library staff have a high level of knowledge sharing practise, with internal consistency values ranging from 0.702 to 0.916, Cronbach's Alpha ranging from 0.868 to 0.922, Average Variance Extracted (AVE) ranging from 0.606 to 0.747, Composite Reliability (CR) ranging from 0.854 to 0.922, and Rho A coefficient of reliability ranging from 0.838 to 0.996. The results also show that intention fully mediated the direct relationship between attitude, perceived behavioural control, and subjective norm towards knowledge sharing practice. Furthermore, the moderating role of library staff ignorance supported the path coefficient (t-value) of its interaction with intention, which is significant. The results reveal that at lower-level library staff ignorance, the attitude has a weak impact on the determination to share knowledge. Thus, the main contribution to this study is how respondents share knowledge, as seen through their level of perception and their knowledge sharing practices.

This study focuses on knowledge sharing practices among library staff with special reference to the staff at IIUM Gombak Campus Library. The main aim of the research is to establish whether the library staff are in agreement with regard to knowledge sharing practices and whether there is a need for knowledge management and more specifically for knowledge sharing strategies. Thus, the objective is to establish the extent to which knowledge sharing practices occur among professional library staff in their daily activities. The study employed the quantitative and qualitative research approaches. A questionnaire was developed and delivered in person to the library staff while interviews were conducted with top managers from various divisions of the library. Descriptive analysis and qualitative exploration were employed. The research questions explored knowledge sharing practices, including challenges faced by these library staff. The questions were mostly based on knowledge sharing, information and ideas that include motivating factors, inhibiting factors, methods in enabling the effective practice of knowledge management. General themes such as incentives and barriers towards knowledge sharing were also explored. The results of the study reveal that almost all library staff of IIUM Gombak campus library use the Internet for emailing, texting, voice mailing, etc. as part of their communication channel. Telephone were also used by the library staff. However, face-to-face communication method is considered the easiest and simplest way of communication, and is widely used. The study concludes that knowledge sharing practices involve managerial support and individual creativity. Recommendations on how some of these issues can be addressed are also provided. The researcher therefore proposes a road map that outlines the steps that should be followed to attain a satisfactory level of knowledge sharing at the IIUM Gombak Campus Library as well as an environment where there is open transfer of knowledge from the mentor to the mentee. It is suggested that for this to succeed, senior management would have to support the process of knowledge sharing activities for the IIUM Gombak Campus Library staff. It is further suggested that incentives should be given to staff to ensure effective knowledge sharing.

This study analyses the core mission of the African Union (AU) peacekeepers in the Darfur region of the Sudan during 2003 - 2009. Peacekeeping missions are often deployed to oversee the implementation of peace agreements signed among conflicting parties within a state. Recognizing the United Nation`s principle to seek peaceful settlement to disputes that underlines the legality of peacekeeping, this study focuses on the role of AU peacekeeping forces in the Sudan. It examines the objectives of AU peacekeeping operations in the Darfur region and its actualization. It also assesses the successes and failures of the peacekeepers in the Darfur region. The study also examines the challenges faced by AU peacekeepers in Darfur and explores the steps taken by the AU peacekeepers to overcome the challenges in Darfur. These include complementing diplomatic efforts and military force by the AU in Darfur. The study found that notwithstanding the challenges faced by the military commanders especially, in communicating with their counterparts from other nations, the AU peacekeepers have made progress through mediation and preventive diplomacy.However, the study also found that the absence of a common view on the nature and causes of conflict has hampered a single international perspective on how to approach the Darfur crisis. It also established that political power is a vital tool to protect and secure sufficient resources to meet basic needs. The study also found that the lack of governance in Darfur has been a major factor aggravating the conflict in the region. The absence of strong institutions to manage natural resources to contain conflicts over access to these resources and lack of development, coupled with the absence of natural resource management are underlying causes of the crisis. Also, low per capita income, social and economic inequalities, unemployment and lack of economic opportunities in civilian life has contributed to the civil war. The study concludes that the AU mission has been largely ineffective due to continuous killings, rapes, displacement, limited logistical and financial support, inadequate mandate and troop numbers. The study recommends that the Darfur peace process should involve broader participation of the civil society as various groups have been competing for· dwindling resources.