Courses to train librarians and information professionals There are no formal studies offered by library schools, but there has been information literacy training as continuing education given by some of the leading IL organizations in the region. The UACJ Libraries from Mexico has facilitated a training the trainers course that has been facilitated to other universities´ library since 1998 (Lau, 2001). There has been collaboration from Mexico to other Latin American countries, offering workshops to other Latin countries, such as one in Brazil, Cuba, Guatemala, and Peru given by the author (Lau, Jesus, 2006) of this report. Mexican library conferences have organized workshops on the subject. This year, two courses were scheduled: one for public library staff and another for educational institutions. The Comunidad DHI and the Universidad Veracruzana will offer one on the pedagogy of information literacy, with the assistance from University of New Mexico in Veracruz, Mexico, later this summer (Lau, 2006). The General Library Direction of UNAM conducts also a course to IL train librarians (UNAM, 2003).
