Via Librarian Way I found the LiS Radio webcast of a conversation between Sandra Erdelez and Karen Fischer, two of three editors of Theories of Information Behavior from ASIS&T and Information Today.

Unfortunately, the interview focuses on how the book came to be more than the content, but the description reads:

overviews of more than 70 conceptual frameworks for understanding how people seek, manage, share, and use information in different contexts.

Request, can we have another LiS Radio webcast where these theories are discussed?

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On NPR’s Weekend Edition today: an interview with Michael Segel, author of The Devil’s Horn, subtitled “The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool.”

Adolph Sax’s instrument seems to have been controversial from the start. Other manufacturers tried to assassinate him, the Pope declared the church’s opposition to the instrument, Ladies Home Journal explained that it “rendered listeners unable to distinguish right and wrong.”

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On the Media’s recent show on November 29th and a piece in All Things Considered explored the relationship between technology and pornography. This is familiar territory for some — Wired magazine reports on it regularly…

Click the links above and listen for yourself.

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