Fogler Plus Newsletter — June 18, 2024 - Raymond H. Fogler Library

Fogler Plus Newsletter — June 18, 2024

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Fogler Plus Newsletter — June 18, 2024

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What’s “Fogler Plus”? Raymond H. Fogler Library, Merrill Library in Machias, Maine InfoNet, and the University of Maine Press provide library collections and related services under the direction of the University of Maine Dean of Libraries.

In This Issue:

PTRC Representative to Visit Camden Public Library
Behind the Scenes: Special Collections and Projects
Featured Resource: American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography

PTRC Representative to Visit Camden Public Library

Fogler Library’s Patent & Trademark Resource Center Representative and Business and Economics Librarian John Hutchinson will visit Camden Public Library on Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. to deliver an in-person only presentation, “The World of Patents: What They Are, How to Get One, and Their Place in History.”

The number of people applying for patents and trademarks greatly increased during the pandemic and remains high. Obtaining a patent can be important for an inventor, and obtaining a trademark can be an important step in founding a business.

Hutchinson will explain the basic concepts behind these intellectual properties, how to get them, and how to conduct a search on the official US Patent & Trademark database. He will also share a fun compilation of famous historical patents.

The PTRC is a public service of Fogler Library in partnership with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Behind the Scenes: Special Collections and Projects

Our ongoing Behind-the-Scenes series is meant to demystify the workings of a modern academic library. In this 1-minute video, Digital Commons Curator Kim Sawtelle gives us a behind-the-scenes look at Fogler’s Special Collections and Projects Department. Video editing was done by Library Specialist Paul Smitherman.

This video shows a behind-the-scenes look at Fogler’s Special Collections and Projects Department.

Featured Resource: American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography

Between 1936 and 1938, the WPA Federal Writers’ Project hired field workers to collect the life histories of former slaves. Transcripts for 2,000 interviews, from seventeen states, were then compiled by the Library of Congress. The collection and the index are now searchable online.

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