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cpikas says:
Ok, back to this: "And my point is simply about how–at least in most of my LIS exposure to these concepts–they are generally cashed out in theories/metaphors of math, engineering and transportation."
I respectfully disagree! Well I can't disagree about your experience, but I can say that you shouldn't generalize to the whole field. Yes we hit Shannon, but I have my 601 binder right next to me, and in it we have Dervin, Rogers & Kincaid, Pao (convergence model of communication)... and lots of reference interview stuff there and in my basic reference course that's strongly based in communication research and cognitive science. Look at all the research on question asking/answering for heaven's sake -- that is communication, humanistic, user-oriented. Like I said, I can't talk about what an information structure person would read in a LIS program, but we reference types hit this stuff hard and often.
