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During the last six years TU Berlin Universitätsbibliothek has professionalized and expanded it’s before more traditionally designed library courses and has evolved towards a Teaching Library. The library aims at a significant increase in course quantity and quality, especially the ratio of library courses integrated in the departmental curricula shall be raised. In-house and out-house training for staff members involved in Teaching Library activities is taking place on a regular basis to meet the requirements induced by working with a subject activity-oriented approach. Increased quality standards and the demand for higher staff time have initiated changes in the library’s personnel and organizational structure which are still on going. The library has now reached a stage at which it becomes clear that its lived practice can no longer be mapped onto its organizational form. Here the library is faced with questions regarding the integration of the Teaching Library services in the general library organization. Can the requirements of the Teaching Library be effectively and efficiently realized in the given structures of a university library or are changes in its operational and organizational structure necessary? Will it be sufficient to make the teaching of information literacy part of the respective job profiles? Should there be an independent department with staff assigned to it? Which qualifications are required and can all staff levels be involved in the Teaching Library? The presentation will give a first-hand account of difficulties and problems during the transformation process.