Delivering information literacy services to University teaching staff over 35 in UNAM (Mexico): A case study

Abstract

The theory of administration knowledge represents to be the model of intellectual capital development that will prevail to the productive societies during next the ten years; in his theoretical principles emphasizes the advantage of the knowledge and the use of the technology in the construction of the productive proc-esses that generated one better quality of life to the humanity. The universities are the responsible that academic persons, students and investiga-ors, acquire, structure and organize the new knowledge, to generate a set of competitions, skills and abilities to them in the resolution of problems. This sense, the information literacy becomes a necessity that must to help the effective educative models. The academic personnel to the 35 years olds, presents serious problems in the handling of the TIC´s and therefore, the present investigation details the instru-mentation of a oriented academic program towards the processes of information literacy, oriented to the update and improvement of the education that is distributed in a Latin American University