About KIPA
The Knowledge & Information Professionals 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:
- Casey Ashe (President), Tulsa Community College
- Suliman Hawamdeh (Vice President), University of Oklahoma
- Chuck Tryon (Member), Tryon and Associates
- Dan Doyle (Member), Williams Companies
- Garry Booker (Member), Project Frontier, LLC
- Jay Thompson (Member), Cricket Communications.
- Jeff Crawford (Member), University of Tulsa
- Joseph Colannino (Member), John Zink
- Kristin Thompson (Member), OU MSKM Graduate Student
- Laura Hardy (Member), Magellan Group, LLC
- Matthew Broaddus (Member), OU MSKM Graduate Student
- Shona Koehn (Member), Tulsa City-County Library
- Tom Rink (Member), Tulsa Police Department