Use the skills and knowledge you've developed as a librarian to explore some interesting career paths.

1. “ You know I always wanted to pretend that I was an architect.” - George Costanza, Seinfeld Alternative Career Paths for Librarians

5. what skills and knowledge do I need? Librarian Taxonomist IA Consultant Librarian Taxonomist IA Consultant Librarian Taxonomist IA Consultant Librarian Taxonomist IA Consultant Interpersonal Visual Research Database Business Librarian Taxonomist IA Consultant

7. librarians: profile librarian promoting useful skills Librarians organize and locate information for patrons of the library. Librarians’ skills organizing information makes them better finders of information, and… … librarians’ skills finding information makes them better organizers.

8. Librarian skill: organization of data librarians: profile

10. Web sites are libraries. Customer service is the process of making libraries easier to use. User-centered design is the process of making web sites easier to use. It’s all about the user experience. Users are patrons and the experience is finding information easily. IA and librarians: shared goals Representing information accurately in the user interface.

11. PP PP PP PP PP Splash Page Search Results Page Top Nav Bar Shopping Cart why architecture? Web sites are like buildings. Pages are like rooms. Your info is in a room. To find the room you want, you have to find the route. Building a site with clear routes through the pages depends on links. Links are nothing more than words. Which leads us to taxonomies…. PP = Product Page

15. Librarian Information Architect Catalog Business Information System Taxonomy Metadata Patron/Librarian User information architects and librarians AACR2 LC/DDC

17. taxonomy is linguistics functional label

18. taxonomy is linguistics non-functional label

19. IA and taxonomy: shared goals Complex data set becomes a simple picture, its meaning apparent at a glance.

22. seeing it as you really are IM consultants are challenged to see the big picture. They have to be the visionaries in the face of entrenched opposition. They must understand all parts of the information system, especially how information and content affect the overall business strategy.

24. nicholas berry content architect & taxonomist [email_address] comments and complaints

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26. users content context the lens model

27. an IA methodology Stakeholder information needs (business & user) User Mental Models Business & Technology Constraints Metadata Model Content Model, Domain Models Indexing Paradigm Findability, Usability, Brand Health