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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