The Libraries Portal of the Generalitat de Catalunya: a project for citizens and professional staff of public libraries

Abstract

The Subdirecció General of Biblioteques take part as trial in the project of change toward a new culture of management and production of contents that the Culture and Mass Media Department of Generalitat de Catalunya is carrying out under the technological platform of Vignette Corporate, what supposes a great opportunity to present through the Libraries Portal an accurate offering of services, resources and information literacy for citizens and also, from the Extranet, looked at librarians of the public libraries, a good collaborative work environment for professionals. We describe the creation of this portal hold up under the development of two parallel projects, analyzing the impact on recipients, from the existing relationship between its expectations and the offered answer with regard to the formulation of the project.