Fogler Library Faculty Newsletter 10-05-2021
* Women in Maine Project Now Available Online * New Finding Aids for University of Maine Records on Digital Commons
- Women in Maine Project Now Available Online
- New Finding Aids for University of Maine Records on Digital Commons
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The Fogler Library Faculty Services Guide details a number of the services available to faculty through the library. Some of the topics in the guide include library research support, information on submitting reserve materials, open access publishing, and information literacy instruction. http://libguides.library.umaine.edu/facultyservices
1. Women in Maine Project Now Available Online
Documents and audio files are now available online for the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Collection MF 068, Women in Maine Project. The collection consists of a series of interviews conducted from 1974 to 1980 by students for a course — IDL 105, Women in Maine: An Autobiographical Approach — taught by Maryann Hartman in the department of Speech and Communications at the University of Maine.
Students asked a variety of informants for their opinions about the present and future roles of women in Maine. Each informant discussed this in the context of their own lives and experiences, and individual interviews cover a wide range of topics. The women’s suffrage movement, World War I, World War II, Kennedy assassination, and Watergate are among several recurring themes. Fifty-eight individuals were interviewed, including Addie Weed, Doris Twitchell Allen, and David C. Smith.
Files can be accessed through Special Collections’ ArchivesSpace database or DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, contact Special Collections at 207.581.1686 or um.library.spc@maine.edu.
2. New Finding Aids for University of Maine Records on Digital Commons
More finding aids for University of Maine records held by Fogler Library have been added to the finding aid page on Digital Commons. The most recent finding aids are for records of the National Poetry Foundation and its publications Paideuma and Sagetrieb and the Division of Marketing and Communications. Special Collections and Maine Shared Collections Librarian Matthew Revitt is currently processing records related to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
If you have material you think might be appropriate for the University Archive please contact Matthew matthew.revitt@maine.edu.