This report presents the role of user-author in the University environment about information changing. The report is written by GLACS (Gruppo di lavoro Analisi e Caomparazione dei Sistemi di Automazione). The aim of the report is the study of different users and also all they needs within an integrated system of information: it must consider the libraries’ system especially at a functional level. In other words, the core of any accademic libraries should be support the user-author, during writing process such as thesis, documentation, reports or research. The report considers two aspects of this process: 1. how research may be disseminated 2. how to hand out teaching documents and information products Both research workers and students want that their studies would be spread at any level of society. An integrated sistem library must considered at first how to spread the research documentations in universities environment, especially in order to support the users-authors, who are the most important characters for the research and accademic library. This report was showed at Workshop GLACS, 21 May 2002, at the University of Padua (Italy).