The era of the information like a proposal is analyzed that comes from the hand of the globalización process of the economy. From the structure of the classic model of university, one approaches the concept and the characterization of the project of globalización of the knowledge and its implications for the different blocks from nations that participate in planetary dynamics. The networks of computers, the academic or scientific alert networks, networks, and their independent development are described. The integration of these networks, and the generation and maintenance of knowledge networks, provide the conditions so that the academic community fulfills its mission educational and of generation of knowledge for benefit of the society to which it belongs. A new responsibility arises for the university library: to lead processes of integration and cooperation that allow the free flow of the information to take advantage of, in the Colombian and Latin American context, the enormous possibilities of scientific and social development that offers the call revolution of the knowledge
