Fogler Plus Friends Newsletter — September 10, 2024

Fogler Plus Friends Newsletter — September 10, 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:

  • Therapy Dogs at Fogler!
  • New from Special Collections and Projects: Maine Folklife Survey; records from the Office of International Programs

New from Special Collections and Projects: Maine Folklife Survey; records from the Office of International Programs


The Special Collections and Projects Department in Fogler Library has added approximately 2,200 digital objects including an estimated 1,950 photographs from the Maine Folklife Survey to the online archival content management tool ArchivesSpace.


The Maine Folklife Survey, conducted by the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History between 1980-1981, created a year-long time capsule of Maine’s rural sociology and folk traditions. The survey project, led by the late C. Richard K. Lunt, captured a portrait of Maine just prior to the pivotal period in American history marking the end of Gen X, the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, and the start of the Millennial generation.


Interview topics covered during the survey include crooked knives and carving; chainsaw carving; logging; country music; lobster fishing; vernacular architecture; dowsing; scrimshaw; canoe building; livestock auctions; horse and ox pulling at the Ossipee Valley, Skowhegan, and Oxford County Fairs; the Jonesport lobster boat races; bean hole beans; Franco-American music; storytelling; buckwheat milling; blueberry raking and much more. The collection includes approximately 80 hours of video and audio recordings. For assistance accessing restricted materials in this collection, please contact um.library.spc@maine.edu.


Also on ArchivesSpace, records from the Office of International Programs (OIP) are now available to researchers. The records outline the history of OIP and its previous iterations and include copies of UMaine guides and manuals for international students; publicity material; training material; annual reports; and material compiled on the history of OIP. There are also digital copies of newsletters, oral history interviews, brochures and a video of the International Dance Festival (2023).

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