This essay raises questions about the future of information literacy in higher education, given the prevalence of the "Information Literacy Competency Standards" in the library profession for the past 15 years, and the heated debate that took place regarding whether the "Framework for Information Literacy" and the "Standards" could harmoniously co-exist. We do not have answers to these questions, but we offer our perspectives on how the "Standards" have served academic librarians in the past and on how we envision the "Framework" and the "Standards" working together to further information literacy instruction. Our conclusion is that the "Framework" and the "Standards" serve different purposes and have different intended audiences and are thus both valuable to the profession.