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This blog provides additional insights on  Myths about information and information seeking. Read it here:  https://slegaultinforetrieval.blogspot.com/2008/06/10-myths-about-information-and.html  

  This summary captures the key points from today’s lecture (6th November) on information behaviour, where Prof. Winner Chawinga completed the previous topic on the shift from information systems to users and then, he introduced a new topic; Myths/troubles in information behaviour and information seeking. He explained how old literature, research on information seeking focused on information systems and artifacts such as. books, journals, newspapers, radios television, schools, universities, libraries, and professional conferences. These studies were more concerned with the search for information and its use rather than the individual users, their needs, the resources they preferred, or the results they experienced. By 1970, the focus shifted from being information system to the users. Concepts such as information seeking emerged to describe these users’ centred approaches. The lecture also discussed different research orientations distinguishing between task-oriented and non-t...