Resumen:
This essay highlights the significance that information and communication technologies have promoted in the development of countries, especially with regard to the well-being of citizens, the generation of social capital and the creation and support of structuring projects. The availability of broad band, free internet access, the universalization of digital education are examples of informational resources, which combined with other encouraging measures, such as teaching entrepreneurship in schools, encouraging the emergence of inventors, gaverise to share dinitiatives, such as business incubatorsand technology parks. This innovative technological context is associated with the use of new automated processes of information handlingby libraries, with the purpose of organizing and making available theim measurable volume of information, almost customized, because based on the cognitive models of information search by theuser, through the development of automatic information storage and retrieval systems.