Working in academia, the author worries that a whole generation of professors is losing touch with the tools that are the foundation of their own research and growth. He knows, of course, that using databases is only one element of information literacy, but today's technology has wide ramifications. When he hears a professor tell her students that they can't use "the Internet" for research, he wonders if she has grasped the reality that most scholarly information finding tools are net-based. When a professor insists that his students use only print journals, he knows that he is not properly aware of the digital revolution in periodicals. He has started to wonder if faculty members who are passively resistant to information literacy instruction are guided less by pride than by a lack of belief that information literacy can be taught at all. Most faculty members fell into their own research skills just because they are gifted academically.