This work presents the experience report of the library of the Institute of Geosciences at Universidade de São Paulo in the retrofit of its spaces for the creation of a 24-hour coworking area. The use of this environment and its impact on the visitors flow of the library were analyzed. As a result, a high flow of use of coworking rooms was verified, which resulted in a 59.3% increase in the flow of visitors to the Library in a comparison between 2019 and 2022. This corroborates the need to readjust the library to a new audience that demands much more space than printedcollections.

The University of São Paulo has been experiencing the increase in contents in electronic and digital formats, distributed by different suppliers and hosted remotely or in clouds, and is faced with the also increasing difficulties related to facilitating access to this digital collection by its users besides coexisting with the traditional world of physical collections. A possible solution was identified in the new generation of systems called Web Scale Discovery, which allow better management, data integration and agility of search. Aiming to identify if and how such a system would meet the USP demand and expectation and, in case it does, to identify what the analysis criteria of such a tool would be, an analytical study with an essentially documental base was structured, as from a revision of the literature and from data available in official websites and of libraries using this kind of resources. The conceptual base of the study was defined after the identification of software assessment methods already available, generating a standard with 40 analysis criteria, from details on the unique access interface to information contents, web 2.0 characteristics, intuitive interface, facet navigation, among others. The details of the studies conducted into four of the major systems currently available in this software category are presented, providing subsidies for the decision-making of other libraries interested in such systems.