SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: SIGIA-L: certification?
RE: SIGIA-L: certification?
From: Hodges Doug (doug.hodges_at_nlc-bnc.ca)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 15:03:49 EDT
IMHO, IA certification seems impractical at this time. IA practitioners
come from a wide variety of backgrounds and different professional
groupings, e.g.,
ARMA, ASIS, ALA, CIPS, etc. So incorporating a single, recognized IA
certification within an existing professional society does not seem
feasible. And forming a separate professional IA society which would
provide certification would be a *huge* amount of work, and then there is
the matter of getting the certification formally recognized outside of such
a society. I think any attempt to formalize such a dynamic field right now
would be counter-productive. Perhaps at some point in the future, two or
more professional societies or associations could jointly establish an IA
certification standard and process. Who knows?
Doug Hodges
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doug.hodges_at_nlc-bnc.ca
National Library of Canada
"Opinions expressed are mine and not necessarily those of my employer".
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Louis Rosenfeld [mailto:lou_at_argus-inc.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 1:18 PM
>To: sigia-l_at_asis.org
>Subject: RE: SIGIA-L: certification?
>
>
>My guess is that the employer doesn't know too much about the field of IA;
>I'm 99.99% certain that no such certification exists.
>
>This topic came up at the ASIS Summit in Boston last April. Does anyone
>have strong opinions either way about the value of IA certification? My
>concern is that even if there was value in certification (and I'm not sure
>there is), the field is simply not mature enough to build a standard
>syllabus around, and that few would care to put in the effort to obtain
>certification when demand for IAs is so great (and not likely to diminish,
>at least not in our lifetimes).
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-sigia-l_at_asis.org [mailto:owner-sigia-l_at_asis.org]On Behalf Of
>> Lori Rosen
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:44 AM
>> To: sigia-l_at_asis.org
>> Subject: SIGIA-L: certification?
>>
>>
>> I recently saw a job ad that said something like, "Information Architect
>> certification a plus." Is there such a thing? -- my web searches
>> produced
>> no relevant results.
>>
>> Lori
>>
>>
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