About KIPA

The Knowledge & Information Professional Association (KIPA) is an evolving umbrella group of diverse knowledge and information professionals who share a common goal of advancing the intelligent sharing of personal and organizational knowledge. Professionals represented in KIPA include knowledge managers, content managers, IT specialists, information analysts, librarians, archivists, records managers, document managers, web developers, and information architects. The group vision is to develop a network of knowledge specialists who will help each other understand how each specialty works together to build a total structure of knowledge and information management within an organization.

Main objectives:

• Provide a forum for knowledge and information professionals to exchange ideas and share experiences.
• Promote professionalism and excellence in the knowledge and information professions through professional
  development and social interaction.
• Serve the knowledge and information professionals by making information available through a wide array of
  resources such as listservs, meetings, publications and other activities.

Members of the board:

• Suliman Hawamdeh (President), University of Oklahoma
• Chuck Tryon (Vice President), Tryon and Associates
• Tom Rink (Secretary), Tulsa Police Department
• Garry Booker (Treasurer), Project Frontier, LLC
• Shona Koehn (Member and Webmaster), Tulsa City-County Library
• Betsey Martens (Member), University of Oklahoma
• Yong-Mi Kim (Member), University of Oklahoma
• Dan Doyle (Member), Williams Companies
• Jay Thompson (Member), Cricket Communications
• Jeff Crawford (Member), University of Tulsa
• Joseph Colannino (Member), John Zink