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In Fall 2006, the head of the Université de Montréal Libraries has made available in the WebCT environment an assessment of information literacy skills. This assessment was used by Jean-François Durnin and Catherine Fortier, reference librarians, to evaluate different cohorts of undergraduate students from the Faculté des sciences de l'éducation and the Départment d'anthropologie at the Université de Montréal. A pool of about 200 french language multiple choice questions, some with feedback, is now available for librarians from this university. They can create a questionnaire on information literacy skills and use it as a tool for self-assessment prior to or in addition to a training. The possibilities are enormous. One of the various goals of the assessment is to measure information literacy skills related to the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education developed by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). During the communication, speakers will share their experience with their use of the self-assessment test in their interventions as ``librarians-trainers". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]