By the middle of April the TUNE project has passed already the half of its total duration, and the results are visible. While they are finishing the training sessions programmed with the centers of adults' education of Toledo, we have had occasion to share with other Spanish professionals our project TUNE.
In Madrid these days have been celebrated the 9th Spanish Documentation Congress, an event that assembles every two years professionals of all kinds of libraries and information centers, to share and to debate the last trends in our profession. With the purpose to be kept a day and simultaneously to promote our project, we come to them a member of the working group of the Library of Castilla-La Mancha, Antonio Niño, and both members of the management team, Joaquín Selgas and Lola Membrillo.
In the frame of this Congress a session of communications was celebrated around “Users training and expectations”” and a round table concerning “Advances in the l information literacy in the organizations: a state of the question”, that ensued of the most crowded and interesting from the whole program. In it, several professionals from university and specialized libraries and from Library and Information Science Schools, analyzed the state of the application of training programs on information skills in Spain.
Two of the participants in this round table will be present also at the TUNE Conference that will be celebrated in Slovenia in June, 2005: Jose Antonio Gómez and Cristobal Pasadas. Both realize a great labor in the field of the Information Literacy in our country, and are members of ALFINCAT, a working group born in 2003 to promote training on information skills. In the debate we had opportunity to briefly comment on our project TUNE, which ensued from interest for many of the attendees. Besides of tha, it was announced the celebration next autumn of a special Seminar on Information Literacy in Spain, which there will be coordinated by the Information Society Observatory of the University Carlos III of Madrid; we will try to present at this Seminar the results of TUNE.
On the other hand, this month of April has begun the diffusion along the whole Europe of an informative leaflet on the TUNE project, which summarizes the aims lenses and methodology of the project.
Joaquín Selgas and Lola Membrillo
Library of Castilla-La Mancha (Toledo, Spain)
20th April 2005
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