News and Announcements

GALILEO Discontinuation of Support for IE 6 Browser

Posted: July 06, 2010

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…

General

W.S. Merwin Appointed Next Poet Laureate

Posted: July 06, 2010

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…

General

Let Freedom Ring

Posted: July 02, 2010

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…

Databases

Select FirstSearch Per-Search Databases Discontinued by OCLC

Posted: July 01, 2010

The following OCLC FirstSearch Per-Search databases will be removed from GALILEO menus tomorrow morning: * Agricola * Alternative Press Index * EconLit * PsycFIRST Public Libraries and a small number of academic libraries included the above databases…

Databases

Update: FIXED: K-12 Schools (Research Library and PQ Newspapers)

Posted: June 30, 2010

The problem with K-12 School accounts and ProQuest Research Library and ProQuest Newspapers has been resolved. Access to these two databases will become available tomorrow morning (July 2, 2010.) ******************************************************…