Dear all,
a spin off from the jobs/status/pay thread
Have a look at this site - it's primarily US, and some of it's a bit
thin - but in it's talk about information architecture it's describing
what we do, ( the term has been around for a while ) & it's trying to
push it in a glossy way....
It also bridges the vocabulary gap between librarianship/computing(web
designers)/& the rest of the world - in the same way that 'taxonomy' is
a more acceptable term than 'classification' in some sectors.
http://www.aifia.org/
So what do we do? Buy a new suit, produce some marketing bumph and
introduce the powers that be to a new set of jargon/acronyms? Well, it
works for management ... personnel/human resources.....
Kirsty
(By the way Rosenfield & Morville (2002) Information Architecture
for the world wide web, O'Reilly is actually quite good - it's readable
& does make passing reference to librarianship!)
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