Information architecture: Five things information managers need to know

Information Management Journal, Sep/Oct 2002 by Farnum, Chris

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Websites

Argus Center for Information Architecture (ACIA). Available at www.argus-acia.com (accessed 23 July 2002).

Boxes and Arrows. Available at www.boxesandarrows.com (accessed 23 July 2002).

IAWiki. Available at www.iawiki.net/IAwiki (accessed 23 July 2002).

Intone, Keith. "Usable Web." Available at www.usableweb.com (accessed 23 July 2002).

Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g). Available at www.nngroup.com (accessed 23 July 2002).

Search Tools. Available at www.searchtools.com (accessed 23 July 2002).

Organizations

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Available at www.asis.org (accessed 23 July 2002). Usability Professional Association (UPA). Available at www.upassoc.org (accessed 23 July 2002).

Education

University of Baltimore, School of Information Arts and Technologies. Available at http://iat.ubalt.edu/ (accessed 23 July 2002).

University of Michigan, School of Information and Library Studies. Available at www.sils.umich.edu (accessed 23 July 2002).

Chris Farnum is an information architect with Compuware Corporation. More than three years of his experience were with Argus Associates, a well-known IA group. Farnum may be reached at crfarnum@yahoo.com.

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