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The present paper reviews the literature of risk management, that has emerged in recent times, trying to know their notions, recommendations, guidelines, and standards in the field of libraries and documentation and information centers. It analyses its usefulness, performing a balance about the bibliography published in Argentina and other countries. It conclude on the need to implement process and standards inherent in the risk management in libraries to prevent dangers or threats in different areas, such financial, communicational, technological, human, environmental areas, and others.

Based on the results of previous research of the research group at the Institute for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (UNLP-CONICET) on social networks in different types of libraries (research, academic, and popular) in Argentina, it makes a balance on its use in these institutions and guidelines for the development of a communications policy that contemplates and part of the management plan of these information units are proposed. They point to consider all aspects related to the scope, limitations , uses, risks and others involving the adoption and appropriation of different social networks (such as Facebook , Twitter , etc.) , their coexistence , management and sustainability to over time

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) and their first steps associated with Open Access are presented. The "management model" that has been implemented at the University to communicate science and disseminate research results generated by community-based and collaborative forms distributed through the Internet is described. Eight main reasons for creating an "Office of Open Knowledge" in Universities and Organizations of Science and Technology, are exposed.