SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: SIGIA-L: Finding education to build
Re: SIGIA-L: Finding education to build a firm IA foundation
From: Beth Mazur (mazur_at_pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 21:43:09 EDT
Daniel Drop writes:
> After reflection, I concluded that although people stress the many
> disciplines that come to IA, there are a couple that stand out, library
> science and human-computer interaction. I believe that no definition of
IA
> could be created without reference to one or both of these fields.
I think many at the ASIS conference would agree with you. The question
I would ask you or others who share this opinion is how you reconcile
Richard Saul Wurman's IA with this one. His most recent book,
Understanding USA, involves neither library science (in the sense
I think it's meant above) nor HCI. Isn't it information architecture
when one makes "the complex clear" using simple organizational tools
(RSW's LATCH) and print media?
Beth Mazur
mazur_at_pobox.com
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