Presentation on Leckie's model
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Jim Mtambo
Information Behaviour and Literacy Education Summary of session 2 Paradigm shift Session 2 of the information behaviour and literacy education course focused on a number of areas in regards to information behaviour. The Lesson stressed an important aspect in Library and Information Science (LIS), which is concerned with the shift from the system to the user-centred approach. The shift has moved towards understanding the behaviour of the users. This involves understanding the information needs of the users, the preferences, as well as their satisfaction with the available information services. Additionally, the information behaviour seeks to understand how the users search for information and the preferred sources of information among the users. Additionally, the research studies in LIS, centre on understanding the users, not the systems. This is evident in scenarios where, for the libraries to acquire resources such as books, they conduct a user needs assessmen...