El centro de documentación turística de España la tarjeta postal como documento turístico de la modernidad española de los años 60

Abstract

A documentation center is the information unit that gathers, preserves and spreads documents of an area of knowledge or administrative service. The Spanish Tourist Documentation Centre (Centro de Documentación Turística de España, CDTE), born within the Spanish Institute of Tourism Studies, was formally created in 1985 as a national center for tourist documentation. The CDTE collection is made up of very different types of materials (monographs, leaflets, posters, magazines, etc.) and currently has more than 136,000 documentary references. Donations made by workers and users and the transfers of grey literature generated by Turespaña are core to the CDTE, as well as, the search in auctions and bookstores. All documents are described and indexed, paying special attention to the thematic and geographical description to improve the results of user searches. The catalogue is one of the tools used to information dissemination, together with the task os bibliographic información and information literacy programme. The CDTE services should increasingly be user-oriented, in order to remain a reference institution in the field.