The 21st Century University Library and the New Learning Scenarios.

Abstract

The main transformations that have taken place in universities, in the increasingly changing environment of the contemporary information society, in which Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) become particularly important in order to facilitate information access are outlined. This situation facilitates the introduction of new learning styles in academic teaching, which creates a new paradigm in the relation teacher-student-librarian, starting from the need of lifelong learning. Some transformations that have been made in university libraries worldwide to integrate new learning styles, proposing new service models as an integrated space for learning in a broad, flexible and intelligent way that would generate new facilities for information access are analyzed. The role of the librarian, as an information professional, who assumes the challenge of information literacy as a development strategy for the university library in accordance with the new educational paradigms of the 21st century University is emphatized.