gloria monti's note provokes a very intriguing side bar to this conversation . . . most of us have had to learn what others have thought about important issues by - in one way or another - "going to the library," and we've all [almost all?] become accustomed to thinking of that kind of research as an integral part of our professional profiles . . . but is it? . . . . could it be argued that such research was simply a necessary evil created by the available technologies of dissemination, and that with new technologies there's no reason at all to insist that students spend hours looking for books that they could --  perhaps?? --  devote more fruitfully to reading them?



please note i'm not at all encouraging using new technology to get potted or second hand versions of what counts as important scholarship - there the answer seems clear, at any rate to me . . . what i'm asking about is simply the process of finding out about and then getting copies of the materials that count as important in any inquiry



thoughts??



mike



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    does anybody else on this list find this undergraduate request

troubling?  with a simple click of a key, this kid gained access to the

research that his professor expected peter to do himself.  i believe that

encouraging this kind of behavior fosters intellectual laziness.  instead of

finding kapsis's book *at the library* and read it, now a student can just

e-mail kapsis himself and hit him up for ideas.  or even access bentley's

yet unpublished work -- and therefore unprotected by copyright.

    another example of how professors are turning into their customers'

(formerly known as students) servants.  what's next?



   gloria monti



gloria monti, ph.d.

assistant professor

radio-TV-film

CSUF, fullerton, CA

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