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This study has focused in knowledge sharing behavior in the Information Science Department at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah.

It aimed to investigate the Department knowledge sharing in the internal and external environments.

This was to produce knowledge due to the criteria of "communicative competence", with using Benchmarking to compare to some good models in the world in future studies.

Case study, content analysis and comparative methods were used.

The questionnaire was distributed to the faculty members, lecturers, in the department in both men and women sections.

This study has considered as one of the beneficial studies in knowledge sharing behavior in the field of Information Science in Saudi Arabia.

Thus due to the lack of this kind of behavior and due to the disability of creating and generating knowledge based on competitive criteria among faculty members.

Unfortunately, Information Science Department still lacking of producing textbooks for their students, which led to any department to be high accreted in the world market.

This study also identified and analyzed major factors for knowledge-sharing among faculty members which considered very important tools for Benchmarking.

The study also added a scientific lead by designing some models for further research to determine the suitability of this concept of participation knowledge in Arab environments as opposed to Western environments.

Those models would help to find a mechanism to build and create knowledge, and to share among the faculty members to increase their productivity and innovations.

Those models also would show some practical activities among any organization society.