[Sigia-l] IA book club

[Stacy Surla]

Our local IA group in the Washington, DC area (DCIA) has been running a
bi-monthly book group for two years now, under the stewardship of Dan Brown.
It's a great excuse to get together and talk.  Just as in regular book
clubs, some people read the books and some don't - it's okay either way.
Our books have included Jesse's "The Elements of User Experience," Stewart
Brand's "How Buildings Learn," Herge's "TinTin" series, etc etc.  'Till now
it's been held in a public bookstore/coffee shop, so we sometimes get
interesting walk-ins joining the dicussion (like that woman with the teddy
bear...).  Overall, the book group idea has been a steady success, and I
encourage others to try it.

(DCIA - http://www.dc-ia.com/) 
~Stacy




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Stacy Surla
Information Architect, Content Management & Stewardship
The MITRE Corporation
Phone: 703-883-3493
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From: Matthew Goddard <Matthew.Goddard at online.nhsdirect.nhs.uk>

... I was wondering is it's typical for people to read work based
books as you would in a normal book club? At work my reading tends to be
task orientated - Having said that though I do tend to read overview books
such as the Fogg book in that fashion.