The development of virtual libraries that offer Internet users access to full-text documents requires the teamwork of librarians, editors and webmasters. This paper proposes the option of cooperative virtual libraries and describes how the Latin American Social Science Council (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales – CLACSO) organized a distance training course via the Internet for a group of librarians and editors of eighteen countries of Latin American and the Caribbean, pointing out the factors that must be considered for the organization of courses via the Internet.
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