LISNews: Librarian News

The NY Times has a nifty story on the growing field involved in the study of usability. Membership in the Usability Professionals\' Association, a professional society, now numbers nearly 1,700.
Nothing like a blown election to raise awareness!

I sometimes like to pretend I\'m an Information Architect, like George liked to pretend he was an architect on Seinfeld.

R. E. Wyllys has posted a lesson that talks about how Information Architecture and Library Science. To paraphrase the lesson:

It provides information about various ideas associated with the term \"information architecture\" shows how information architecture is closely related to, and embodies most of, the long-standing principles of library and information science.

Check it out at U of Texas

Andrew Dillon has written a nice story for the ASIST Bulletin. He talks a bit about the mid-year summit 2000 in Boston, and issues that are facing the IA field. He says \"Now is the time for some testing of ideas, and as we know only too well, testing invariably leads to re-design and often the revisiting of original assumptions. Now it starts to get really interesting.\"
This column will appear in the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science.

Here\'s a nifty and detailed explanation of just what an information architect is, from Steven Downes.

\"From my own experience, I would say that the practitioners are professionals, versed in every aspect of web design, adept communicators, and gifted visualizers - they are people who eat, sleep and dream web design and structure. But you can\'t put that on the job description.\"