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Overview of paternships and public policies developed in Brazil to support public libraries development. National plans and programs that are being developed in Latin America and Caribe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the work is to analyze the perception of the Latin American users how much to the impact generated for the national programs of information and the TICs (technologies of information and communication) in the power to decide processes, around the full exercise of its citizenship, in order to identify the levels of iformation literacy where if they find. Initially, the conceptual and empirical points regarding the fluency in information and its levels of appropriation are explored: the digital one (conception with emphasis in the technology of the information); the informacional properly said (conception with emphasis in the cognitives processes) and social (the conception with emphasis in learning directed to the social inclusion, that consists of an integrated perspective of learning and exercise of citizenship). In according to place, from the objectives and target of Latin American the National Programs of Information it is traced a panorama of these programs and the impact of the information technologies and communication in Latin America. Finally, it was gone deep research with studies of case in some initiatives implemented in Brazil, in the Equator and Peru, where if it searched to understand as using ends of telecentros and libraries if have used of them and that changes are being generated in the conditions of its activities and the exercise of its citizenship, in accordance with different levels of appropriation: digital, informacional or social. For the study these variables had been considered: motivation, understanding, dificuldades/gaps or limitations, use of the information gotten knowledge, projection/impact in day-by-day and the valuation recommendation of the program. The results point with respect to the existence of different and simultaneous levels of appropriation: in the some countries, but with predominance of the focus still for the digital inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The document exposes the possibilities and challenges involved in integrating LIS education and training in the new scenario of the educational cooperation of the countries of Latin American and Caribbean Region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fifty Latin-American academic journals on Library and Information Science were identified as being active between 1997 and 2001. Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico were most active, publishing 60% of these journals. Only five journals had been in publication 26 years or more, while 37 titles were less than 10 years old. Library associations and schools of library science with no graduate courses published more than half (58%) of them, while schools offerering graduate courses (Master and Ph. D.) and research centers jointly published 11 journals. These later journals are usually be perceived as the best journals by academia. These Latin American journals are usually published semi-annually, and only a few appear in general bibliographic databases, though, INFOBILA indexes and disseminates most of them. Also identified was a tendency for these journals to become electronic publications with 20 journals offering full text, 4 providing abstracts, and 4 content indexes online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our experience with Patrimonial Collections in the Public Library of Medellín, Pilot for Latin America, one of three Unescós Public Libraries. Medellín is fond of her past. The first collections were gifts from the founding families. Sala Antioquia was born in 1985, then Antioquiás writers archives came along. Private libraries with first editions, photographic collections with more than 1.600.000 original prints, Medellín's story from 1849. We create a methodology to preserve and conserve, to organize so many different materials. We would like to diffuse it. Now our task is digitalization to be able to divulgate the richness of our memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]