In the last years we saw great changes in the bibliographic information access and distribution, in Italy and all over the world. There is the risk, in Italy, of a disappearance of the national contribution to knowledge production, and of the need to access information through Italian sources digitalized somewhere. Today we assist to forms of partnership between Universities and some information provider, and to the first attempts to electronic resources acquisition in cooperative ways. New solution must be found to allow libraries to continue their function in information organization, access, archival.