[Sigia-l] WOW! how annoying.. where do you find IA ia's - look for an indexer

[Webindexing - Jon Jermey and Glenda Browne]

I second this, and would add that you could also look for an indexer,
specifically a database indexer (www.asindexing.org in the US;
www.aussi.org in Australia).

Glenda.
> 
> Message: 12
> Reply-To: "David Heller" <david.heller at documentum.com>
> From: "David Heller" <hippiefunk at hotmail.com>
> To: "'Christina Wodtke'" <cwodtke at eleganthack.com>,
> 	<Sigia-l at asis.org>
> Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] WOW! how annoying.. where do you find IA ia's
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:18:06 -0800
> 
> <<I'm tryign to find an IA who knows stuff like taxonomy 
> design/classification and the like-- and I keep geting these site
> map+interaction types.. west coast IA's. How do you tease them apart?
> Anyone else go up aginst this problem? advice? >>
> 
> I think you have to specify that you want someone w/ a 
> library science background VERY few IAs out there really come 
> from the type of background you are looking for. One of the 
> reasons I stopped calling myself an IA; see B&A article for 
> more info. ;-)
> 
> The term has just been mis-used, mis-appropriated, and 
> over-generalized to become useless.
> 
> -- dave
> 

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