Directorate

• Head Librarian: Professor Norbert Lossau
• Deputy Head Librarian: Dr. Armin Müller-Dreier
• Deputy Head Librarian: Dr. Rupert Schaab
• Secretary's office

General services and administrative departments

• Facility services
• Finance
• Public relations
• Personnel management

 Special collections and conservation

• Manuscripts and rare books
• Historic printed collections
• Map collection
• Conservation and restoration
• Book bindery
• Projects
• Göttingen university archive 

Readers' services

• Information centre
• Circulation (incl. stacks, cashier's desk)
• Inter-library loan / document delivery services
• Divisional libraries for the humanities and social sciences
• Divisional libraries for the natural sciences
  
• Projects

Information and literature provision: Humanities and Social Sciences

• Cultural Sciences
• Law
• Theology and religious studies
• Social sciences
• Economics
• Projects

Research and Development

• Strategy and monitoring
• Centres of excellence
• Information architecture
• Projects

Digital library

• WWW, portals
• E-Learning
• Scanning and reproduction
• Library systems
• IT infrastructure
• Software and service development
• Projects
• DINI e. V. office

Information and literature provision: Life and Natural sciences, Mathematics

• Biology, psychology
• Chemistry
• Forestry and agrcultural sciences
• Geosciences, geography
• Mathematics, computer science
• Medicine
• Physics, astronomy
• Projects

Information and literature provision: Central acquisition and indexing

• Periodicals, digital media
• Metadata and data conversion
• University Library service centre
• Monographs
• Binding, labelling and final checking
• Gift and Exchange
• Elektronix publishing
• Procjects
• Niedersachsen-Konsortium office
• DigiZeitschriften e. V. office
• Central editorial office for subject indexing