Ein Raum für eine Fakultät: Die Medizinbibliothek Göttingen als Dienstleisterin für Studium, Forschung, Lehre und Beruf

The libraries of academic and public institutions have been in a process of fundamental change for a number of years now. Time and again, teams have to reorganise themselves, master new challenges and adapt to the changing user needs – at what feels like an ever-increasing pace. In academic libraries, the users are mostly students, but employees also use and need the library as both physical and digital space, as does the ever-growing group of training and care professions. How can we do justice to all these needs? Using the Medical Library at Lower Saxony State and University Library as an example, this article shows how a place of learning can nevertheless be continuously developed within certain framework conditions and remain present in the faculty for all user groups. Almost a matter of course, new developments also bring new and previously unknown difficulties, which are also addressed.