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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
O'Reilly, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998, 226 pp, $24.95, ISBN 1 56592 282 4
This book is a welcome contribution to the discussion of the role and practical involvement of library and information professionals in site design for the World Wide Web (WWW). Without attempting to hold professional aloofness, the authors illustrate quite clearly the importance and effectiveness of using principles of information management at the start of the design process, rather than as an adjunct at the end. There can be no doubt that the culture of WWW design currently relegates content analysis and organisation, or information architecture, to a poor third position behind technical performance and aesthetic considerations. Anyone who has used the WWW in anger, however, will recognise the satisfaction of being able to navigate quickly and cleanly through a well-organised site to come up with some required information.
Published as part of the excellent O'Reilly series on modern IT issues, the book presents clear and digestible material in a...