I have started reading Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity by Collins and Bolt. I must admit that I have yet to proceed from chapter 2; however, it has been quite refreshing to read. The book deals with the subject of literacy – rather than information literacy per se. A quote form page 2 has really got me thinking about what information literacy actually is, the quote being:
“This impressive diversity of possible literacies – from moral literacy to simulation reading – suggests that “literacy,” as a key word in our culture, has a status in the current era rather like that of “science” in the nineteenth: it refers loosely to any body of systematic useful knowledge. This plurality of sense is, however, countered by a contrary pressure to determine precisely and authoritatively which practices, which ways with text, legitimately fall under the rubric “literacy”; or, more colloquially, to ask what “real literacy “ is. (Collins and Blot, 2003: p.2-3)
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