With the advent of the internet and the emergence of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs), society has been provided with more connectivity and, consequently,
the overcoming of face-to-face communication barriers to reach the digital and virtual.
However, it is believed that university libraries can also make use of these ICT resources and
be very well benefited, not only in terms of greater communication reach with their
community, but also for the promotion of education, interaction with users and the promotion
of its products and services. From these considerations, in the development of this work we
propose to address what are the resources and/or tools associated with ICTs that university
libraries have used to go beyond their traditional physical space and, thus, also reach their
users in the digital spaces. The study focused on the use of online social networks by libraries
of Brazilian federal universities that are active in the National Register of Courses and
Institutions of Higher Education, of the Ministry of Education (MEC). It is understood that
from the moment libraries choose to make use of tools such as online social networks, they
position themselves strategically before their community, given that the new human
generations are increasingly prone to access to technologies, online connectivity and the rapid
retrieval and absorption of information. Therefore, we must understand that we are living in a
new phase of culture recognition in our society, which has been called digital culture, and it is
necessary that libraries and librarians also dominate their place in this space.
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