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ZB MED - Information Center for Life Sciences is the largest library worldwide in the field of life sciences. From October 2016 to June 2018 Dietrich Nelle was its interim managing director. In this interview, he informs about ZB MED's evaluation, realignment and cooperations. Furthermore, he speaks about open access, German Medical Science, research data management and research activities at ZB MED. Moreover, Nelle explains the position paper “Academic libraries 2025', which he co-authored, and gives insight into his motivation to become provisional head of ZB MED. Finally, he drafts a possible way for the instituion's resumption into the Leibniz Association in January 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the start of the Corona pandemic, the Helios nursing schools faced many challenges. Face-to-face teaching had to be switched to digital, communication no longer took place on site but on channels such as Zoom, Skype or Teams. At the same time, the Helios central library licensed an interactive learning tool and made it available to the nursing schools. This paper describes the process of implementation, communication, support and collaboration around the platform in the midst of a time when contact restrictions became commonplace. It has become clear that the library can and must support the development of media and information literacy in nursing schools. Despite the high communication effort that continues, the Helios central library is much more present in the minds of all teachers and students. Thanks to the project, the library has established itself as a point of contact for the nursing schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cooperation of university libraries with intra- and extra-university institutions with the goal of teaching information literacy has increased significantly in recent years. The topic of information literacy and the accurate handling of information have become a key skill in many areas, in society, in the economy, in education as well as in further training. Therefore, libraries are increasingly becoming educational institutions within the universities, colleges, schools and other institutions to which they belong. Vienna university library participates in this development and offers assistance for the accurate handling of information as the basis of writing academic or pre-academic papers in a variety of collaborations. These include courses at university as well as school levels which are tailored to the target groups. Some of these collaborations are discussed in detail: the training of PhD students and writing mentors in individual study courses, the support for pre-scientific work in schools and the training of school librarians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]