LISNews: Librarian News

steven bell writes \"Here\'s an interesting article from a relatively new e-journal called Boxes and Arrows - it focuses on information architecture. In his article, \"The Age of Findability\", Peter Morville laments about a recent trip to a new aiport and how it got him thinking about a new concept, \"findability\" and how this is applicable to many different resources and structures. An excerpt:
That’s why I say this airport has findability problems. The difficultly I had finding my way dominated all other aspects of the experience. Like usability, findability applies broadly across all sorts of physical and virtual environments. And, perhaps most important, it\'s only one word!
FIND the story at:
boxesandarrows.com
\"

Scott Berkun has cobbled together a Best of chi-web & sigia-l page.

The chi-web and sig-ia mailing lists are two email based discussion groups on the topics of web usability, design and human computer interaction (the later with a heavier emphasis on information architecture).

Using the archives for each mailing list, he\'s compiled a list of the summary postings from useful threads, and a few personally selected favorite postings. The list is not an exhaustive list of summary postings. Just the ones he found most salient and valuable for reference.

Has anyone done this for any librarian lists?

Michael Angeles writes \"

Information Today is running This Article about Paul Blake, a Librarian turned Dot Commer who confesses that in his most recent job in the Web space, \"I used the skills I learned at library school more than I had for the preceding 15 years.\" Blake describes how professionals with information retrieval skills -- experience with classification and information structure -- add value to the Internet.\"

As another librarian working in a dot.com I\'ll second that!

Andrew Dillon has written a very cool Look at the IA Field.
He says making others aware of just what we do as professionals has always proved more difficult than it would appear. Sounds like librarianship, eh?
He talks about how IA related to the ballot troubles of the elections.