The Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (in German, "Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft") offers study programmes at three levels: bachelors, masters (both a standard program and a postgraduate distant learning program), and doctoral.

The goal in 2006 became the creation of an internationally competitive "iSchool" on the explicit model of the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

Other new faculty included Stefan Gradmann (2008-2013) and Vivien Petras, both of whom led important parts of the Europeana project.

Key elements of this transformation included a curriculum with significantly more emphasis on the digital future and the skills necessary to function within that environment.

re3data.org presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions.

[5] The project proposes interoperability between the open-source elements of two existing archiving systems (LOCKSS and KOPAL) in order to combine cost-effective bitstream preservation with an established tool for usability maintenance and format migration.

IUWIS (Infrastruktur Urheberrecht für Wissenschaft und Bildung) (2009-2011) is also project sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.