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18/3/20 20:45![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyWe have one professor who requires, for who knows what cockamamie reason, that students use a print source.
Article in a database? Not acceptable. An article from the New England Journal of Medicine is totally acceptable if you get it from the magazine, but totally unacceptable if you download the pdf from the database which contains EXACTLY THE SAME CONTENT. It's silly and not educationally useful, but I can't make him change it.
So. What's going to happen now that classes are canceled, the library's open, but students are being strongly encouraged to not come to campus, and are being encouraged to instead do everything virtually?
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I am perfectly willing to photocopy or scan a section of a book or magazine for someone, to make a home delivery, or whatever - but if there was ever a time to make an exception, surely this is the time!
(I don't think he wants to teach online, which I understand, but if this reluctance keeps him from asking students to go to the library to find books on color guard and global warming, I will be GLAD.)
Article in a database? Not acceptable. An article from the New England Journal of Medicine is totally acceptable if you get it from the magazine, but totally unacceptable if you download the pdf from the database which contains EXACTLY THE SAME CONTENT. It's silly and not educationally useful, but I can't make him change it.
So. What's going to happen now that classes are canceled, the library's open, but students are being strongly encouraged to not come to campus, and are being encouraged to instead do everything virtually?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I am perfectly willing to photocopy or scan a section of a book or magazine for someone, to make a home delivery, or whatever - but if there was ever a time to make an exception, surely this is the time!
(I don't think he wants to teach online, which I understand, but if this reluctance keeps him from asking students to go to the library to find books on color guard and global warming, I will be GLAD.)
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19/3/20 18:27 (UTC)