If it were up to me, rather than make up examples or modify existing ones,
I would just test using materials that have no copy or really bad copy.
There are advantages to this approach:

(1) You will discourage students from just cutting and pasting from a
utility or catalog.
(2) You will have the basis for upgrading an existing record or adding a
new one.
(3) You chip away at some of your library's backlog each semester you offer
the course.

Consider awarding extra points to those students who get closest to what it
would take to add the record into WorldCat. It seems a shame to test
students but not use some of their best work to add to the commons.

Bryan campbell
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