With the development of times, science and technology is changing peoples ideology, pursuit of knowledge even the reading habits. This is both an opportunity and a challenge for university libraries. The opportunity lies in the advantage on collecting books of university libraries whose rich books is the foundation and prerequisite for people to satisfy their pursuit of knowledge, and the challenge is the impact of network media that the peoples changes in reading habits and reading modes has lad that the closed university libraries cant meet the needs of reading. Opening the resources of university libraries and expanding the reading ways have become the only way of the reform and development of university library work for readers. This paper firstly introduces the connotation of university library work for readers, expounds the aim and problems of university library work for readers, and analyzes that under open environment, how to improve the service quality and level of the service work in university libraries.