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Ainsbury, Bob and Michelle Futornick. The Revenge of the Library Scientist. From: Online. 24:6 (November 2000)
This article discusses how the skills of library scientists make them perfectly suited to the online world.

Aitchison, Jean, Alan Gilchrist, and David Bawden. Thesaurus Construction and Use: A Practical Manual. 3rd ed. (1997)
A practical, concise guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. This new edition takes account of advances in information retrieval and software capabilities, and now also includes the uses of thesauri.

Alexander, Christopher. The Timeless Way of Building. (1979)
This book explains the idea of patterns in architecture. A pattern is a way to solve a specific problem, by bringing two conflicting forces into balance.

Alexander, Christopher, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. (1977)
This book offers a practical language for building and planning based on natural considerations. By understanding recurrent design problems in our environment, readers can identify extant patterns in their own design projects and use these patterns to create a language of their own.

American Society for Information Science (ASIS). ASIS Summit: [Information Architecture]. (2000-)
A conference for information professionals, specifically those interested in information architecture. The first one ("Defining Information Architecture" in 2000) was a super-energized meeting, which fostered a discussion of the role of information architecture within the web design community and provided the impetus for SIG-IA.

Anderson, James D. Guidelines for Indexes and Related Information Retrieval Devices. (1997)
This report provides expert guidance on designing indexes for every kind of document, which includes automatic indexing and indexing based on intellectual analysis and the use of controlled vocabularies. A comprehensive glossary of indexing terms is provided as well as recommended introductory text for print and back-of-the-book indexes, database indexes, computer produced indexes, and electronic search indexes.
Note: Also available through TechStreet.

Argus Center for Information Architecture (ACIA). Information Architecture. (2000-)
An annual conference for information architects by information architects, sponsored by the Argus Center for Information Architecture (ACIA).

Asaravala, Amit, editor. Web Techniques.
This journal contains how-to information on every aspect of web development, design and management.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI). Annual SIGCHI Conference: Human Factors in Computing Systems. (1985-)
The annual CHI conference is the leading international forum for the exchange of ideas and information about human-computer interaction (HCI). This is the longest running conference on this topic.