Is it normal to hide books or journals in a library?

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I graduated from college in the mid-90s. When I was a senior I had to write a paper on a technical paper. I was having trouble figuring out what to write, so I found a technical journal and plagiarized/copied a large portion of the article and used it as my own paper. This was back before these technical articles were widely available on the Internet.

To prevent the professor from possibly discovering that I had copied a large portion of my paper, I stuck the softcover technical journal in between old Time magazines from the 1940s that were on the shelves in a different location. That technical journal might have remained hidden in between the Time magazines for years before anyone noticed!

Is it normal to hide books in a library to cover up one's tracks after committing plagiarism?

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Based on 69 votes (45 yes)
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  • wigsplitz
    11 years ago

    This is such a cool story.

    I think I was the sole reason my school started keeping the magazines behind the counter and making you ask for them in order to read them in the library. I used to steal them constantly. I had a stack of the school's magazines 10 feet high in my room. Look, I had no TV, no money and lived an isolated rural life. All I could do was read, and re-read, and re-read shit for the entire long winter when I didn't care to play outside. I'd read anything to keep sane and entertain myself. I read the shit out of everything. When they enacted the signing out the magazines policy I was so crushed.

    I have so many memories of mischief in the library.

    Of course there was no internet back then so the surfaces of the study carrels were the message boards of the day. There was a great conversation going on at one for about a week, I'd live for study hall so I could race down there and get to that carrel. I was in the middle of writing my reply and fuck me, I got caught by Mr Pud-scratch (that's what we called him) and I had to clean the whole desk. So sad.

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  • Shrunk
    11 years ago

    lmao... I doubt it would matter... people do look through all those books and reorganize them when there is nothing else to do. That reminds me though, when I was little I used to stash toys i wanted in secret places in the stores so they would still be there for christmas or my birthday then when my parents asked what i wanted i would just tell them where the stash was

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  • Ellenna
    9 years ago

    I hide books I disagree with in libraries and bookstores and I also write comments in them

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  • Evil_Rebel
    8 years ago

    Lol you were born to rule

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  • peterr
    10 years ago

    We used to hide our drug stash in the Thorold Library.

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  • RomeoDeMontague
    10 years ago

    My teachers use to accuse me of cheating all the time. However I never plagiarized anything. I did quote stuff in a few of my papers but I never plagiarized. You took a big risk and are lucky no one caught you. This is in fact a crime. In college they could have kicked you out for it and worse.

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  • zeeermeno
    11 years ago

    I think it's creative! Haha, really.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Cool story bro

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  • blondbond69
    11 years ago

    They are organized.....not still there

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  • Who_Fan4Life
    11 years ago

    Yeah, when I entered college in 2008, every college professor that I had seemed pretty adamant in informing us of these programs that detect plagiarized papers.

    ''Vindication...after all these years!"

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