Plagiarism is not new, of course, but it is rampant now and is just one aspect of widespread "information illiteracy." Faculty in many disciplines have even given up on assigning research papers that require students to identify, locate, evaluate, and use research materials on their own. Instead, they simply have their students write papers based on assigned, pre-selected readings. What does all of this say about the quality of liberal arts education, when students are so unprepared to conduct independent research and to weigh the value of one resource or research tool over another? Are undergraduates preparing for graduate-level research? In fact, what do faculty expect entering graduate students to know and be able to do in terms of information research? How are new graduate students learning their research skills and from whom?