diff --git a/robustbench/loaders.py b/robustbench/loaders.py
index e050b14..9aa39ad 100644
--- a/robustbench/loaders.py
+++ b/robustbench/loaders.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """
 This file is based on the code from https://github.com/pytorch/vision/blob/master/torchvision/datasets/folder.py.
 """
-import pkg_resources
+from importlib.resources import files, as_file
 
 from torchvision.datasets.vision import VisionDataset
 
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@
 
 
 def make_custom_dataset(root, path_imgs, class_to_idx):
-    with open(pkg_resources.resource_filename(__name__, path_imgs), 'r') as f:
-        fnames = f.readlines()
+    resource = files(__package__) / path_imgs
+    with as_file(resource) as file_path:
+        with open(file_path, 'r') as f:
+            fnames = f.readlines()
     images = [(os.path.join(root,
                             c.split('\n')[0]), class_to_idx[c.split('/')[0]])
               for c in fnames]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5d80a97..03159a4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="robustbench",
-    version="1.1",
+    version="1.1.1",
     author="Francesco Croce, Maksym Andriushchenko, Vikash Sehwag, Edoardo Debenedetti",
     author_email="adversarial.benchmark@gmail.com",
     description="This package provides the data for RobustBench together with the model zoo.",
diff --git a/tests/custom_loader_test.py b/tests/custom_loader_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0aced8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/custom_loader_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import robustbench
+from torchvision.datasets.vision import VisionDataset
+
+import torch
+import torch.utils.data as data
+import torchvision.transforms as transforms
+
+from PIL import Image
+
+import os
+import os.path
+import sys
+
+from robustbench import data
+from robustbench import loaders
+
+data_dir = '~/imagenet/val'
+
+imagenet = loaders.CustomDatasetFolder(data_dir, robustbench.loaders.default_loader, transform=
+     transforms.Compose([
+         transforms.Resize(256),
+         transforms.CenterCrop(224),
+         transforms.ToTensor()]))
+
+torch.manual_seed(0)
+
+test_loader = data.data.DataLoader(imagenet,
+                              batch_size=50,
+                              shuffle=True,
+                              num_workers=3)
+
+x, y, path = next(iter(test_loader))
+
+with open('path_imgs_2.txt', 'w') as f:
+    f.write('\n'.join(path))
+    f.flush()