An Agenda for reinventing the university library

a strategic and open science exercise

Abstract

If there is a widely known fact, it is that information technology has completely transformed our lives in recent decades. This essay presents an agenda consisting of 8 actions for the reinvention of university libraries considering the impact of these changes not only on the infrastructure of products and services, but also to consider the strategic review of the access to the collections as mission in the traditional library at two levels: the information access beyond their own collections and the education for information literacy. These missions will be identified in the essay as a reinvention of the traditional library in order to consider, respectively, two more libraries: one technological and the other educational. The actions presented in the Agenda seek to show how this reinvention is necessary for the effective fulfillment of the social function of university libraries. The eighth and final action calls on librarians for the “Revolution”, in a process of participatory management, which needs to be started from the inside out, given the scarcity of public policies for investment in libraries. It concludes with an invitation for librarians to share their own Agendas as an exercise in strategic management and open science, using a preprint repository as a production and communication platform.