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The importance of social networks for mass media professionals, especially for news librarians –whose traditional intermediary role limited their visibility to users– is explained. Examples of documentation centres and news librarians’ profiles in social media like weblogs, Facebook, Twitter or Eskup are offered.

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The Documentation Department of Editorial Espasa was created in 1860 with the founding of the publishing company. In this interview with its manager, its origin and evolution is shown and the three most important document types in its collections -books, photographs and texts- are used to describe and illustrate the works that have been published during the 150-year history of the publisher. The existence of the Documentation Department is justified for the extensive collections of the archive and the library. The interview concludes that the traditional concept of publishing is changing with the advent of the new media, although the book in its traditional format will not disappear.

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Reflection on the interaction between national information policies and development cooperation projects in the field ofacademic and research libraries. The evolution of the information policy concept, its relation to development cooperation, and the central role that for nearly seventy years Unesco  has played on those matters are analyzed. Finally, cooperation scenarios in which professionals of university and research libraries in developing countries could develop projects aligned with national information policies are examined.

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The article presents a survey research in 10 documentation centres of Spanish television stations. The authors analyze first the current situation of television documentation tasks after digitization, and the emergence of journalists participation in some of these tasks. Second, we analyze the implementation level, typology and problems of developing documentary products in the documentation centres. For the first time we report a map of the implementation of documentary products in the Spanish television stations. Other results found were: journalists perform the selection of the original materials in 8 of the 10 television stations studied; few documentary products combine text and audiovisual information, and these are usually created for internal use in the news room and not for the audience.