THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND THE NEW LEARNING MODEL: TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS, SINCE WE LEARN TOGETHER, LET’S WORK TOGETHER

Abstract

The new European Space of High Education, as defined during the the Bologna Process, is opening a new setting where “New Technologies of Information and Communication” (TIC) are especially relevant. A different context is been generated for the European Universities, in which a new paradigm of teaching and learning need to be defined, including new roles not only for teachers and students, since also for librarians. Cooperation among participants, and the need of learning to learn along life, appear as new values. This presentation describes how the university’s library is supporting the above mentioned change, by transforming traditional spaces in a new “Center of Resources for Learning and Research” (CRAI). After defining this new setting, concrete experiences and projects are discussed considering the new roles of students, teachers and librarians.