It does raise a pragmatic issue that knowing what books a student has
taken out can be used in two ways:
Confirming that an 'identified' piece of an essay was from a book that
it can be proved the student made use of (potentially good for making a
stronger case)
Allowing fishing exercises, where the texts the student has had access
to can be used the retrospectively analyse their essays (potentially
bad)
I think that civil liberty issues apply here. Just how much looking
over the shoulder should we allow/condone when this will inevitably
break down trust between student and lecturer. It might also discourage
students from using the library for other purposes, such as leisure.
Would we want a list of all the web addresses they visited too? Or the
people they talked to? Extreme, but then the thin end of the wedge is
always fearsome.
Mike
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