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Kicking A Gift Horse In The Mouth, Mark Y. Herring
Kicking A Gift Horse In The Mouth, Mark Y. Herring
Dacus Library Faculty Publications
Yes, of course I know the expression is “Don’t look,” not kicking, but our collective professional behavior makes “kicking” the more operative and appropriate verbal. More about this in due course. As an expression, “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” comes to us from the Lain, Noli equi dentes inspicere donate. Some argue Jerome said it first in 400 A.D., in which his words, very nearly our Latin literally translated, ran, “Never inspect the teeth of a gift horse.”
Stop The Presses!, Mark Y. Herring
Stop The Presses!, Mark Y. Herring
Dacus Library Faculty Publications
Last month a new study commissioned by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) issued one of those “Duh!” reports. The new study (available here http://www. bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf) found that the “Google Generation,” or those brought up by computer wolves, is not very Web-literate.