Forum for library professionals and documentation

IWETEL information

Created: 10/001/1998

IweTel is the largest electronic forum on libraries and documentation that exists in spanish language. It was launched in November 1993 by the editorial staff of the magazine The information professional (before IWE), a publication of information, documentation, libraries and technologies

In its early years, the list was kept in Sarenet company computers a spanish ISP. It was migrated in 1997 to LISTSERV RedIRIS (Academic and Research Network Spanish) IweTel soon became the leading electronic means of communication for professionals in the information and documentation of speaking.

Topics for discussion:

  • Online information services and cd-rom.
  • Gestión de contenidos y del conocimiento. Content management and knowledge.
  • Biblioteconomía y bibliotecología. Librarianship and library science. Biblioteca digital. Digital library.
  • Bases de datos y recuperación de información. Databases and information retrieval.
  • Revistas. Magazines. Comunicación científica. Scientific communication. Open access. Open access.
  • Anuncios de cursos y seminarios, actos, conferencias y reuniones. Announcements of courses and seminars, events, conferences and meetings.
  • Planes de estudio. Curricula. E-learning. E-learning. Masters y postgrados. Masters Degree.
  • Comunidades virtuales, trabajo en grupo, networking. Virtual communities, teamwork, networking.
  • Utilización de la internet. Use of the Internet. WWW. WWW. Buscadores Search Engines
  • Ofertas de empleo en gestión de la información. Jobs in information management.
The administration officials IweTel management are:

The following people advise managers on the content and operation of the list IweTel: 

Cristóbal Pasadas (Universidad de Granada)
Cristóbal Urbano (Universidad de Barcelona)
Francisco Tosete (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Honorio Penadés (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Isidro F. Aguillo (Cindoc, CSIC)
José Alejandro Martínez Andaluz (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid)
Miguel Benito (Högskolan i Borås, Suecia)
Salvador Zambrano (Defensor del Pueblo Andaluz)