This is the story of Information Architecture's 'transformation' as written by GK VanPatter, co-founder of the NextDesign Leadership Institute.  The article covers how the Information Architecture movement split into Information Architecture, Experience Design, Information Environments, Information Findability and other movements.  The PDF includes blog comments and replies that were also circulating around this topic in the blogosphere.

Bob Goodman reviews a new book on information management called Glut: Master Information Through The Ages by Alex Wright in this essay at Boxes and Arrows. 

"Information architects—and anyone curious about the roots of information management—will find much of interest in Glut’s thought-provoking tale. Given the stimulating and contrarian nature of Glut’s ideas, one only wishes Wright would occasionally return from the corridors of the time tunnel and bring his well-informed perspective back to our present age."

There is also an excerpt of Chapter 9 from the book available on the site.

Clifton reviews another new book on Information Architecture in Boxes and Arrows.

"New Web 2.0 interaction design can offer a lot of new suggestions for easier interactions, good use of white space and other glaring design solutions to the typically very busy space of information architecture. But, if you practice IA well, including some new Web 2.0 techniques, you can begin to create mental space as well as white space. Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design, a new New Riders book by Robert Hoekman, Jr., is a great place to find out how much mental space can be offered by your systems."

You can also download a sample chapter of the book from Robert Hoekman's website.

This is an 11 minute interview with Chris Baum by Jeremiah Owyang.  Chris is the editor of popular IA webzine, Boxes and Arrows, and is well-versed in the industry. Chris can be found from his blog eXperience.

This is a Powerpoint presentation by Hallie Wilfert at the IA Summit 2007.  Hallie works as an Information Architect at SRA International in Arlington, VA, a technology and strategic consulting firm. Before SRA she worked for 8 years at the Institute of Medicine, most recently as the Director of New Media managing their online communication strategy.

The description of the presentation is as follows:

"My presentation examines the information architecture of everyday life, using my grandmother, the quintessential “domestic engineer”, as a case study and example. Through participant observation, I will examine her core IA skills (content inventories, wireframes, and card sorting), illustrate them with photos and artifacts of her work, and compare her work to “traditional IA” best practices.

While seemingly tongue-in-cheek, my presentation will be valuable to anyone who wants to crawl out from the weeds and examine how information architecture is used everyday by regular people. I will talk about how home organization, as a metaphor for web site organization, can be used to describe IA to those who might not understand its value in a larger context."

You can view the file below or download it from the IA Summit website via the link. 

The presentation was originally "discovered" at Rob Fay's Partial Recall blog.