Distance Education attracts people who are dependent on the knowledges present in the environment they live in but are, however, searching for flexibility to understand the complexity of the phenomena caused by the information society. The presence of libraries in classroom poles, on which it performs the university education of many students is considered paramount by represent the extent of university libraries. Knowing the difficulties different libraries in our country undergo, worry about how these institutions are being managed and maintained in classroom poles in the State of Santa Catarina arises. The overall objective of this research is to diagnose the current situation of university libraries existing in centers of Distance Education, in the State of Santa Catarina, that offer graduate courses of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. As for the methodological procedures, the research is classified as exploratory and descriptive, using the survey method and presents a quali-quantitative approach. It appears that the role of the University Library in Distance Education is to contribute to meeting the informational needs of teachers, students, technicians and communities in which they operate, providing access to different sources of information. Surely the presence of these professionals would contribute to a number of improvements to be implemented in such libraries. It is realized the need to build quality parameters that contribute to the structuring of the libraries of the support classroom poles.
University libraries; Distance education; Classroom poles; Federal University of Santa Catarina