Libraries are as diverse as their users. When one views a modern library and its various services, it is definitely made up of many puzzle pieces. The library today offers a great variety of services, all the way from Gutenberg’s first book in print to digital information via the internet. „The library is well organized. The books are organized into various subject matters, so that one can look both to the left and right in order perhaps, to find something else which might serve one’s search“. „You can keep up with our modern world (Online-information, z39.50)“. Both of these are quotes from library users at the Technical University Library in Hamburg-Harburg taken from a survey in the summer of 2005. This survey was designed to review the offerings of the library and their effectiveness. These quotes reflect that our libraries as well as our readers are making their way together into the future.

More than efficient retrieval and navigation strategies information literacy is the creativity to organize and shape one's own information process in a conscious and demand-oriented way. To reach diverse audiences and learning types a broad range of activities of libraries to promote information literacy is desirable - from complete curricula to single learning objects. The playful and explorative approach of the bilingual online tutorial DISCUS (Developing Information Skills & Competence for University Students) of the University Library of the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) has its counterpart in the learning target of

Publication repositories use a special interface for the provision of their metadata: OAI-PMH ("Protocol for Metadata Harvesting" of the Open Archive Initiative). Since this is not used by search engines such as Google Scholar, metadata is also provided in the machine-readable HTML header for a publication.