The economic, social, and political trajectory that Mexico has accomplished from 1810 to 2010 can be summarized in the current development that national information and library services have. In this conference paper, a brief description of the state of the libraries is provided, as well as the development of some factors of the librarianship discipline, such as a synthesis of the book production, among other themes, in order to provide a quantitative overview of the recent developments in libraries, which are cause and product of the historical occurrences at the bicentenary of the Independence of our country from Spain, and the centenary of the Mexican Revolution
