Intervention Model for Digital Competences of Aguascalientes's Public Libraries Program

The present article describes, in a general way, an intervention model for the development of the knowledge society of Aguascalientes's State, particularly focused on the public libraries where strategies were applied to train the library staff who works in the information units. This intervention describes the courses, objectives, logistics and results obtained in order to strengthen the digital skills of the library staff, as well as the stages covered by this process. The model is justified and acquires value given its characteristics of flexibility, adaptability and the interdisciplinarity of these courses, specially designed to reduce the digital divide in librarians and in the society. The context and importance of the skills and competences obtained throughout the program, as well as the qualitative data, are also discussed in the following sections; furthermore, the proposal has allowed to analyze the library system's condition of that entity and to meet the characteristics of infrastructure that it possesses.