Information Architecture

The title information architecture was a new one for me. As I read the Morrogh article I realized that it is a concept that I should have heard of. As he mentions Library Science is one of the disciplines that this new profession draws from. I notice that he mentions several disciplines that information architecture draws from, including visual design, information design, engineering, and psychology in addition to LIS. There are many different skills necessary in this field, which are laid out in the Kimen article. As I read these two articles I wonder if this is the type of work catalogers will begin to do more and more over the years.

Introduction

It looks like I forgot to put an introduction up. I was too focused on the reaction to a reading.

I currently work at the library at Concordia University in St. Paul. I am the Circulation Coordinator and also work in ILL and the Reference desk. I really enjoy working in an academic library and intend to continue is that branch of librarians. It is not surprising that the academic library is a comfortable and rewarding environment for me as my background is in education. I received my BS in education from Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska in 2000. I taught 3rd and 4th grad for three years before deciding to pursue librarianship.

I am taking this class in web design because it seems that working with web pages is more and more important in reference work, especially in a library with a small staff such as Concordia. At this point I have only worked with front page. I am frequently annoyed by it because it will not do what I want it to. I hope to be able to do what I envision with html.

DNS: Take the magic out of maping

One of the articles that I read was of the above title. It explained the process behind the scenes for getting to the correct web page. I already had a vague idea that each computer had an IP address, but did not realize that there were numerical addresses attached to page names. It was interesting that the packets of information get routed first to a server that is connected to the domain it comes from, I would have assumed that it first went to the server that hosts the actual page. It makes me realize how little I think about the behind the scenes stuff let alone how little I know.

Test Post

This is a test post. I will post more later once I have had time to complete some of the readings.