Printing and plagiarism

[Kristine Littrell <KMT7652@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU>]

Dear friends,
I am puzzled by the many messages I have seen on lm_net recently with
regard to students printing too much from CD ROM databases and concerns
about plagiarizing from electronic resources.  I think the answer to both
of these concerns is more teaching.  When a class comes to my library
to begin research on a topic I usually take about 15 minutes to refresh
the students' understanding of the electronic resources available.  I
stand at the overhead projection panel while one of the students "drives"
at the computer.  That way I can face the students and together we do a
test search, complete with downloading a full text article to disk.  We
have formatted disks available for students to purchase for $.50 (much
the same as we have always had a pencil machine dispensing pencils for

$.10).  Sometimes we even exit the databases and go into w