[Sigia-l] RE: [Ia-academic] scope of the ia-academic list

[mary at mmacdesign.com]

Dear Luz, Ziya:

As I understand, the 2 groups initially interested in starting this list
were the folks who presented on IA curriculum development at the summit
(see reference info below), as well as a small group resulting from an
invitation I posted on the IA summit blog, 3/1 for a Higher-Ed
Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF):
http://www.iasummit.org/2005/blog/archives/2005_03.html

The small group (approx 12 people) who gathered for the Higher-Ed BOF was
made up of:  3 IA/Knowledge Management students, several University Web
Services professionals including 2 project managers, an IT director, a Web
Services Manager, 2 application developers, myself, and 2 university
librarians.  We agreed it would be helpful to continue our dinner
conversations via a list.  Some of the topics of our discussions included:
university business management & strategy, project management, application
development, online learning, library services, our roles as IAs within
the university setting, the connections between university librarians and
university web services personnel and the possibilities for
collaboration...

The intent of starting this list is to have a place where the
practitioners of IA in academic settings (university web services
personnel and/or librarians) can discuss IA and business issues as they
relate to the university environment and the IA educators (academics) can
discuss and share ideas related to their endeavors. It was decided by both
groups that there is a mutual benefit to discussing all academic IA topics
on an inclusive list.

The scope of the list welcomes all discussions of IA related to the
academic environment - university web services, IA curriculum development,
university libraries, etc.

Best Regards,
Mary

**************
Mary MacDonald
www.mmacdesign.com


Curriculum Session referenced:
The Process of Curriculum Development for Information Architecture 
Sunday, 8:30 - 10:15
Thomas J. Froehlich, David Robins, Don Turnbull, Nancy Kaplan, Andrew
Dillon, Peter Morville



> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Luz M Quiroga
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:27 PM
> To: ia-academic at asis.org
> Subject: [Ia-academic] scope of the ia-academic list
>
>
> Unfortunately I didn't attend the latest IA summit so I need your help
to
> understand the scope of this new list. Is this list about IA and
Academia
> (e.g. curriculum, education, teaching) or about IA in academic
libraries?
> Or both?
>
>>From the announcements and postings I read, it seems it covers both
> aspects (maybe more)  but I am having difficulties understanding the
link.
>
> I mean curriculum and teaching could be related to any aspect of IA,
independently of the setting (academic, corporate, community, private, etc.).
>
> Luz Q.
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