Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

"Why begin a book about web sites by writing about buildings? Because the architectural analogy is a powerful tool for introducing the complex, multidimensional nature of information spaces. Like buildings, web sites have architectures that cause us to react."

Known as the famous 'Polar Bear book' (because of the polar bear on the cover), or the IA bible. I read a library copy of this book in 2006, and then went through my own copy of the 3rd edition again in 2007. It is a very in-depth book into IA and how it applies to the web. There's a lot of material to cover, so it takes a while to read if you want to absorb it all, especially if you never heard of the ideas before. But it's a very useful book, and also serves as a good as a reference while modelling out large sites. Perhaps less useful for fairly small-scale sites, but still appropriate. (If you haven't been exposed to the material before, it also gives you a greater appreciation for library sciences.)

I am thoroughly enjoying this book. Good as both an introduction to the topic and as a reference. Updated well, with lots of resources, further references and suggested links. Just what you'd expect from a coupla library science geeks.

Useful primer on IA. Good to read as I've been working on Information Architecture for my library's website redesign.

Getting dated, but stll one of the best groundings to systems that work.

Um clássico quando se fala de arquitectura de informação
Desde 2000, um livro que recomendava em cursos de gestão da informação, mesmo numa perspectiva da organização da informação para a Web.

Escrito por bibliotecários, é um excelente texto sobre Ciência da Informação.

it is an excellent work, it's language is very catchy, simple and humourous.