http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1518-2924.2017v22n49p59 This study to present a theoretical article on success stories of Design Thinking (DT) in libraries, which aimed to study the Design Thinking through of the story, the phases that make up this methodology, as well as the importance of the stage of prototyping, and the relevance of Design Thinking in Information Science. To this end, it was made a bibliographical research where databases employed to collect relevant information were the Capes journal articles, authors of books and internet pages. As a result of analysis of the information it was able to identify the importance of DT in the field of Information Science and the advantages that can represent this new methodology to a level academic and business.