I’m not sure either, but then who is? I’m easily convinced if you provide good arguments/evidence for something, as I recently was, regarding the usefulness of Netvibes.

I think that the notion of generalized information literacy is a useful abstraction, but it isn’t a real thing; you can talk about skills needed by all human beings to get on, but it’s difficult to say exactly what these are. The core elements of subject-specific information literacy can, at least, be defined to some extent. I am very much in agreement that we need to look at how we teach students information skills, and I believe that any discussion of this topic can only be a good thing.

I’m quite convinced that the skills librarians have regarding understanding systematization, search and retrieval are congruent with what many people think of as “generalized information literacy”. Funny old world.

Which means that we need to redefine what our core competences as librarians really are. I´m not sure.