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The article discusses the changes in multi-cultural library activities for ethnical minitorities in Berlin, Germany. It recounts the arrival of the Turkis population in the country, and relates the effort of the government to establish Turkish-language libraries for Turkish library users. It notes on the integration of the America Memorial Library and the Berlin City Library to become the Berlin Central and Regional Library which focuses on its commitment to develop Turkish-language holdings.

The article presents a research focusing the efficiency of the partnership between the library and publishers in Germany. According to the article, libraries and publishers share the same objectives and problems. Both have to work efficiently to seek customers and sell their products. Moreover, libraries and publishers have to provide comprehensive collections of materials and process, as well as supply information.

Already in the seventies of the last century German libraries discovered user education as a new area of responsibilities. First promising activities at the end of the seventies were not continued because of a the lack of staff and organizational conditions. Since the beginning of the nineties especially greater academic libraries renewed activities in that field. Because of the difficulties users had in the use of CD-ROM databases and OPACs they offered courses in the handling of these new electronic information systems. During the last years pedagogical problems arose because of the amount and the complexity of knowledge and skills which have to be taught in the single lessons. These difficulties have lead to new approaches in user education by considering the concepts information literacy, curriculum theory and student centered learning methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]