Information Literacy: An International State of the Art

F. Communication

1. 
   Conferences on the subject
   

The first Spanish-speaking information literacy conference was organized in Juarez, Mexico in 1998, a congress that has regurlarly met every two years. It has been a meeting venue for some information competencies specialists from Latin America and the United States. The fifth conference is due to take palce in October 2006 with the focus on IL evaluation and assessment. A major Latin American conference is under schedule for 2007, with the possible sponsorhip of UNESCO. The proposed location is Valparaiso, Chile, with support from Cuba and Mexico. The Universidad Católica del Maule recently celebrated the first seminar on Information Literacy and information management, with two speakers from Spain, one from México, another from Colombia, and some from Chilean librarians (UCM, 2006). Proceedings of this conference will be published later. Gabriela Sonntag (See Extended Bibliography) has compiled a list of papers published in Spanish at IL conferences that not only includes Latin America, but also Spain and some from The United States

(http://library.csusm.edu/departments/ilp/ALFIN/alfinweb/Ponencias.htm.).

2. 
   Listservs, websites
   

Mexico has a listserv for information literacy. It is a venue to keep communication and exchange of ideas among those interested in the subject. The main website is sponsored by UACJ (Mears, 2006), some others are kept by independent contributors (Vargas, 2006; Chiesa, 2006) in Argentina; all of them act as repositories of the literature and gateway to other IL websites.