La visita guiada como estrategia didáctica para la formación de usuarios en la Hemeroteca Nacional de México

Abstract

What is a newspaper archive would seem like a question with an obvious answer. However, when we consider periodicals as a source of research and the reason of these institutions to exist, we observe that defining their spaces alone does not effectively and fully explain this kind of organizations. Along those lines, our reflection aims to draw attention to the convenience of considering and relating notions of space and time as supports for the construction of a representation of what is a newspaper archive.
The means proposed to promote this approach is, undoubtedly, the guided tour. The case presented here refers to the Hemeroteca Nacional de México, whose guided tour proposal attempts to explain the institution from the events that brought it into existence, as well as a reflective exercise about the newspaper as a source for research. The objectives of the contents of the guided tour are, therefore, focused on the visitor being able to understand how the “hemerographic space” is formed and to recognize its collections as sources of research by the end of the activity; another one is that the information provided transforms into a significant lesson through contact with places and events that are familiar to the attendees, and found in the material on display.