Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee on July 11, 1960. Loved by readers of all ages over the years, this Southern novel examines social issues and reveals life…
Students, teachers, and staff (that includes over 600 6th, 7th, and 8th graders!) at the Clarke Middle School Media Center tell us they are fans of GALILEO because it has been giving them the POWER to LEARN for 15 years. They like that GALILEO is a…
GALILEO is discontinuing support for the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser as of June 2010. The decision to drop support for IE6 is based on the incompatibility of the browser with modern HTML and CSS coding standards, such that it requires…
The Library of Congress has announced that William Stanley Merwin will succeed Kay Ryan as Poet Laureate this October. You can find out about him through his entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica and in this biographical information from…
On Sunday, we celebrate Independence Day, the day that the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the desire of the North American British colonies for freedom from Great Britain. Over the years, Independence Day…
