Fogler Plus Newsletter — September 24, 2024
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In this issue:
- Banned Books: Conversations at Fogler
- New from Special Collections and Projects: Audiovisual services available in the reading room
- IR Provides Global Scholarly Impact
- Celebrating the Early Days of the UMaine and American University in Bulgaria (AUGB) Collaboration
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Featured resource: Project Muse
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Banned Books: Conversations at Fogler
Heard about all the recent book banning around the US, including in Maine? Join some of Fogler’s librarians for a guided group discussion on this topic on Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Salon on the second floor of Fogler Library.
Registration is required, as space is limited. Snacks will be provided.
For more information about workshops offered by Fogler Library’s Research and Instruction department, please visit this link.
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New from Special Collections and Projects: Audiovisual services available in the reading room
Special Collections and Projects has established a listening and viewing area for using and digitizing records, cassette and reel to reel tapes and VHS tapes. We also have staff who are happy to teach/work with you to learn how to digitize and transfer your older analog media to digital files. The equipment is available anytime the Special Collections and Projects Reading Room on the third floor is open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. For more information call 581.1686 or email um.library.spc@maine.edu.
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IR Provides Global Scholarly Impact
During August 2024, DigitalCommons@UMaine, the university’s institutional repository (IR), experienced 65,164 full-text downloads by patrons at 2,210 institutions across 176 countries. “Gender Roles and Society,” by Sociology Professor Amy Blackstone, remains the IR’s most popular article, downloaded a total of 411,935 times since 2013. Angela Czup claimed the number two spot in August with her thesis, “The Impact of Cooking Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior, and Food Security Status on Diet Quality of College Students at the University of Maine,” downloaded 627 times.
For information about self-archiving in DigitalCommons@UMaine, please email um.library.spc@maine.edu.
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Celebrating the Early Days of the UMaine and American University in Bulgaria (AUGB) Collaboration | |
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On Wednesday, September 13, President Joan Ferrini-Mundy held a welcome reception for President Margee Ensign from the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) to the University of Maine campus. Since 1991, AUBG has been a partner institution of the University of Maine, working to provide students and faculty with academic opportunities around the world. To help celebrate the event, University Archivist Matthew Revitt exhibited items that showcased the early days of the AUBG collaboration,
a unique cooperative between UMaine, the U.S. and Bulgarian Governments, and the Open Society Institute.
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Distinguished attendees included Dr. Julia Watkins, former AUBG President (1993–2003), Dr. Marisue Pickering, former UMaine Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and Academic Liaison with AUBG, alumna Orlina Boteva (’01), director of International Programs at the University of Maine, and Karen Boucias, former AUBG Board member and current University Council member, and Daisy D. Singh, dean of libraries, University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias.
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Indexes and provides full-text access to more than 400 journals from 100 not-for-profit scholarly publishers. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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