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European Universities, due to The new European Higher Education Area, have designed new degrees. In Information Science, this process has also been seen as a kind of restructuring. These paper shows the search of new professional profiles, as well as new future strategies for the discipline as a way of expand Information Science in the labor market. Thus, majors in Information Science degrees in UOC are presented.

This paper reviews the user studies developed within the digital library projects, particularly in the use of these studies in design processes and evaluation of digital information spaces. It analyzes several projects listed in the literature, attending on application of user studies and approaches and techniques used in them. In conclusion it proposes the necessary integration of user studies since the beginning of development projects and creation of digital libraries.

Data on usage trends and mobile Internet consumption, backed up by institutions such as Telefónica Company, presents smartphones' and tablets' applications as the real generators of the coming years expansion of the ubiquitous access to the contents and services. Hence the libraries must launch to this world of opportunities and interaction between products and users. Since the mobile application that we have developed will enable us to communicate, influence (impact), exchange and ensure user loyalty though use, since the app will be able to respond immediately and customized to the needs of them. The aim is to open new communication channels with the user, which complement the older ones, but which progress at the same time as the technologies of information and communication like the other telematic services which are offered by the public administrations. In short, mobility, Internet, information and communication are important terms in the development and the adaptation of the libraries' services to the reality and the context in which the real or the potential users of those services are moving.

Since 2003 the Spanish Academic Libraries Network (REBIUN) has been working according to a strategic planning, set out now in REBIUN 2020 3rd Strategic Plan. The plan is based on the development of four goals or strategic lines, where the first aims to "improve REBIUN's organisation, communication and leadership" through five general objectives, amongst them "promoting the integration of the library in the university’s objectives". In this field, Spanish universities have been for a long time developing plans, policies and initiatives related to social responsibility (university social responsibility, USR) . This fact led the Line 1 responsible working group to set as a 2012 specific objective the preparation and presentation at the REBIUN’s annual assembly of a report on libraries contribution to USR.,which was approved in Malaga in November 2012, and that is the subject of this communication. The report is, first of all, a document which aims to promote thinking, learning and raising interest in incorporating the environmental, economic and social sustainability concerns into library management and activities, in the belief that he survival of universities, and libraries as well, is linked to their financial viability, their commitment to environmental sustainability and their work as socially responsible entities.

We present the main features, goals, publishing system and debating procedure of the Spanish think tank on Library and Information Science ThinkEPI Group (Information Strategy and Prospective). We analyse its scientific output, author's productivity, comments received, subject coverage and its web site audience.

The aim of this study is to analyze the contributions that have been made in Spain in the field of librarianship applied to higher education. We want to describe the development of research in quantitative and chronological terms, the topics that have focused this research, the most productive authors and their institutional affiliation, the main sources of publication of this type of work, the grey literature in this field and ongoing research projects on university libraries. The aim is both to describe the state of research and reflection and provide some guidance on what are the sources and how to access them and further research on this topic. The methodology of our analysis consisted of a review of the databases where these works (ISOC BEDOC, Theseo...), the contents of the main Spanish Congress of the period. We make a basic analysis and quantification in order to give some results and conclusions