Dorothy Mzumara's academic blog for weekly Information Behaviour and Literacy Education Summaries.

 The aim of this blog is to provide postgraduate weekly summaries of Information behaviour and Literacy Education Lectures at Mzuzu University (Mzuni).

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Welcome to the first weekly summary of information behaviour and literacy education

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