For any professional to be good at what they do, they must have a firm grounding in the theories that form the foundations of their discipline. In Library & Information Science, however, there are multiple bodies of theory that form the basis of our intellectual work.

I have always endeavored at syncretism (the synthesis of different approaches or philosophies) in all I do. For example, during my graduate education in Library & Information Science (LIS), I did not focus my studies on any single sequence of courses. Instead, I attempted to gain a holistic view of the LIS field by taking classes that ranged from Ecological Information Systems to Database Design to Thesaurus Construction.

Below, I describe one such example, in which I synthesized theories of knowledge organization and the practice of information architecture.

1. Buddhist Thesaurus [Spring 2003]
2. Classification & IA [Winter 2003]