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Disseminating Health Information Literacy Using Information Literacy, Web 2.0

One of the first actions were made in the Literacy Program Informational Cuban National Health System was to develop activities in medical libraries for motivation and awareness of information literacy.

In those days the National Clearinghouse for Medical Sciences InfoMed started a new project incorporating the key tools Web 2.0, was the emergence of that months later would be called InfoMed 2.0, offering users Telematics Network of Health the ability to create your blog, build wiki content, share their favorite images to work with, among other facilities that already had as background Virtual University Health and intranet using Plone and content management system development by users Supercourse, discussion lists and the development of virtual teaching-learning (VLE) using Moodle.

We had the technology ready and available to all health professionals in the country also supported by computerization program that favored the Red all Medical Library with 4 PCs connected and providing services 24 hours, but that served all that valuable human capital investment if it was not ready for proper use?

was then that without realizing what we did (for lack of knowledge) decided to conduct motivational activities linking the main aspects of information literacy with Web 2.0, so as we say in good Cuban "kill two birds with one stone" we would get Participants identified the importance of achieving knowledge, skills and attitudes to recognize a need for information and the ability to identify, locate, evaluate, organize, communicate and use information effectively to both decision making and continuous learning, appropriating addition to the basic skills for using the services of Infomed 2.0.
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National Meeting in Provincial Centre Directors (Oct/2007) that the idea of \u200b\u200brealizing concrete in each province and finalized the details with the directors of the Information Centers for their implementation, the fixed schedule and defined its objectives and resources; 10 days Camaguey welcomed us starting the motivational process in the country.

immediately began to create personal blogs, thematic and institutional and planets were created that grouped and promoted the use of RSS, appeared infomedwiki projects such as a book of pediatric neurology at the collaborating professionals around the country, also had a repository of images of EEG Infomedgaleria Cuban children are socialized favorite sites leveraging the collective experience of members of the network to select and characterize sources of relevant information that can be reused and categorized based on their own criteria then had to teach what was a cloud of tags.

curiosity for novelty and relevant content could be of interest to the present and therefore the motivation was totally spontaneous, both librarians, computer specialists and for teachers in our medical schools and even some managers who participated in these workshops territorial.

After 7 months we get in all the provinces appear Program leaders and facilitators of the workshops to continue replicating and expanding the necessary motivation to achieve ownership of core competencies of information by health workers and use the tools Web 2.0 to manage the information they need to manage knowledge that is imposed on any of the functions they perform, much care, teaching, researching and management, and also recognize the library as the ideal and librarians as fundamental link in the process, incorporating the teaching teams and turning them from passive participants in assets.

are aware that the challenge is huge, this is only the beginning of a long road, but as we sang Serrat, "is made by walking" and the UNESCO workshop that enabled us to participate and share with many people locked in the same objective and facilitators who have already traveled part of that road, we provide safe ride for ours.