Information is the basic necessity for all organizations. New discoveries and inventions have lead to
information explosion. It is difficult to avoid redundancy. Several sources and methods of tapping
knowledge are available. Knowledge map is one such tool that acts as the pointer to experts in specific
knowledge domains. The tool can best be utilized by librarians to identify the domain experts for referral
services and to know who knows what in different domains and save the time of the user. Here is a small
initiative to bring forward the web-based, database driven Knowledge Map: Kmap-IISc. This Knowledge
Map would act as a pointer to experts in specific knowledge domains in Indian Institute of Science
(IISc). It has the well-developed content management tool for addition, modification and deletion of
expert’s profiles. Search and browse for Kmap-IISc facilitates to retrieve the results of experts working
in specific knowledge domains.