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Students and researchers, especially in the natural sciences, benefit from an exponentially growing number of databases and informatics solutions, which facilitate the work with scientific information.However, at many universities, literacy is still viewed only in a subject-specific context.Therefore, databases and tools remain mostly underutilized.We believe that libraries must take the lead in teaching subject-independent information literacy, taking over an important role in educating the workforce of the digital future.By accepting this new role, libraries will develop into a skill center that seamlessly integrates into the research and teaching environment of a university.These new roles require also new skill sets of the library staff.At ETH Zurich, the Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center has successfully taken this new role and is teaching information literacy for chemistry, life sciences, pharmaceutical, materials and health sciences.We have also developed new formats for teaching information literacy that fit into ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.These new formats are "Coffee Lectures" and "Research Group Menu Card Seminars".Coffee Lectures are 10-min-only shows on new tools, databases and services.This format has meanwhile been adopted by many universities in Germany and Switzerland.The seminars are based on a restaurant-like menu card and tailored to the needs of a single research group.Those two formats are accompanied by various case study courses and a 2014 newly designed 2 ECTS PhD Course entitled "Scientific Information Management in Chemistry and Life Sciences".The course maps the research process to the process of information retrieval and management and includes e.g.text mining, or 2D and 3D visualization of molecules.We report on our 4-year experience with the curriculum we developed, sharing our experiences and giving hands-on examples.
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