As bibliotecas universitárias : seu papel de mediação para o acesso ao conhecimento na Era Digital

Abstract

In a paper that aims, above all, to be a set of reflections on the role of university libraries, we begin by drawing a general and diachronic overview of the evolution of these libraries while information services with a distinctive organic profile, whose goals always fit in the mission of the institutions to which they belonged. In the digital and networked society, this feature remains as an identity factor of university libraries, despite the fact that they have to face new challenges for which new skills are required. Their custodial and technicist profile, which gave them the status of repositories/treasures of knowledge, is in deep change what reshapes them as dynamic repositories that do not have custody as essential goal, but mediation and network sharing, at global scale, of the information (knowledge) generated, accumulated and used by universities in the performance of their scientific educational and knowledge transfer to society activities.