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An article by Peter Williams entitled 'Against information literacy' - <http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2006/july/williams.htm>http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2006/july/williams.htm - is designed to give the information literacy movement pause for thought. Williams attacks a tendency within the movement to overstate the importance of IL and to talk in abstract ways rather than to grapple pragmatically with the real needs of library users. My own gloss on his argument is that the library and information community has over-reacted in the face of the massive expansion in sources of available information. For those of us in institutions where the 'modest and flexible' approaches to information literacy he calls for are the best we can hope to offer, the article is a breath of fresh air. But I suspect that Williams will be attacked both by those who, he says, greatly over-state the case for IL and by others who will say that he shouldn't label all IL practitioners as extremists, nor write off the IL movement as having failed. Where do you stand? Vincent Matthews UCL