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Information behaviour and information literacy

Lecture 4: Information literacy model Thursday, December 11, 2025, Master of Library and information science, cohort 7 had an Information behaviour and information literacy class with Associate Professor Winner Chawinga. The class started on a high note as always. ASHAN Pempho? The Professor read out my name from his register. ‘present!’, I responded. Upon finishing checking the class attendance register, the class commenced. The class began with describing the information literacy model. So, the Professor described an information literacy model as guide for developing information literacy skills in individuals and provide frameworks for information literacy curricula. The Professor said that the information literacy models are also called information problem-solving models in information literacy. The following are some of the information literacy models ·        The big 6 information skills (Einsenberg and Berrlowitz,1990) ·    ...
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Information behaviour and information literacy

  Lecture 3: Information Literacy At exactly 9:00A.M of Wednesday, November 26, 2025, Information behaviour and Information Literacy class commenced. Professor Winner Chawinga, our usual facilitator in the course introduced the module by referring us back to the course title. He said “If you look at this course, it is about information behaviour and information literacy”. Later on, Prof. Chawinga said today we are going to cover information literacy. First and foremost, Prof. Chawinga defined information literacy as a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognise when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate and use effectively the needed information. Thus, Information literacy is increasingly important in the contemporary environment of rapid technological change and proliferation of information resources. In addition, Professor tackled the question “why is information literacy pedagogical”? So, it was clarified that information literacy is pedago...
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Presentation on the Wilson's Second model

Group Assignment 1: Presentation on the information behaviour model Thursday, November 13, 2025 was a wonderful day when the Mzuzu University Master of library and information science, cohort 7 had an information behaviour and digital literacy class with Professor Winner Chawinga. This time around the Professor came to class not to give a lecture but to preside over the presentations on information behaviour models by the students. Out of the many models, our group was tasked to present on the Wilson's Second model. So, in this blog I have shared the presentation of group 1 members on the Wilson second model.  https://wchawinga.blogspot.com/
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Information behaviour and information literacy

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Lecture 2: Shift from Information system to users and myths of information behaviour On Thursday 6 November, 2025, Mzuzu University Master of Library and information science, cohort 7 attended an information behaviour and digital literacy class with Associate Professor Chawinga. The class just like other classes was insightful, motivational and quite thought provoking. The lesson began with an interesting concept on the shift from Information systems to information seeking which is also known as sense making. Initially, the researchers and scholars focused much on the information sources and systems rather than the information users. For instance, scholars focused much on the artifacts and venues of information like the books, journals, newspaper, libraries, telecentres etc. The main goal was to understand what the information sources were and how they were used. The case is different now as the scholars are concerned with the information seeking of users. Nevertheless, the infor...
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