"Georgia libraries offers the best of all worlds, the books we love and the online information we need. We in Georgia can be especially glad of GALILEO. . ." says Dan Veach, winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Poetry for 2013. In…
On this day in 1935, Governor Eugene Talmadge proclaimed the Brown Thrasher as the official state bird of Georgia. Thirty five years later, in 1969, the question was raised if the governor could legally designate state symbols. Later that year, on…
In celebration of the Masters Tournament in Augusta next week, let's take a look at what GALILEO offers for golf enthusiasts in Georgia. Use the Discover GALILEO search box to search for golf* to find articles about all aspects of golf, or search…
We are pleased to announce that the records from URSA, the Mercer University Libraries Institutional Repository, are now included in the Georgia Knowledge Repository. Also, the Georgia Knowledge Repository records can be added to any institution's…
One of America’s greatest fiction writers, Flannery O’Connor was both on this day in 1925. She would have been 90 years old. O’Connor was born in Savannah and moved to Milledgeville with her family in 1938. She attended the Peabody Laboratory…