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In this issue:
- Finding Funding Challenge
- Milton Bradley: Maine native, game designer, and education champion
- UMaine Librarian presents at Maine Contemporary Archives program
- New from Special Collections and Projects: Registrar records from the 1913 to 1974 period; Student group history and more
- Therapy Dogs at Fogler today and Thursday!
- Featured resource: Psychiatry Online
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Finding Funding Challenge
Once again, Fogler Library is partnering with the Office of Research Development (ORD) to offer the Finding Funding email challenge from December 16–20, 2024! If you register, you will receive an email each day that week designed to build your grantseeking skills. The challenge covers ways to find grant opportunities, tips for strategically reading requests for proposals, and suggestions for writing successful grant proposals. If you have questions contact librarian John Hutchinson or Jen Bonnet at ORD.
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Milton Bradley: Maine native, game designer, and education champion
Fogler Library is celebrating the life of famed board game designer and Maine native Milton Bradley with both a physical display in the 2nd floor Jones Room and an online display. Learn about his humble beginnings in Vienna, Maine, his professional setbacks before his game design success, and his tireless devotion to the promotion of the Kindergarten Movement in 19th-century America. We invite you to learn more about this Maine native who transformed play into a lifelong learning experience.
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UMaine Librarian presents at Maine Contemporary Archives program
Meg Colbert, Library Coordinator at UMM Merrill Library, presented her work managing University of Maine Libraries social media accounts at last week’s Maine Contemporary Archives (MCA) professional development program. Colbert has worked on creating content strategies that highlight library resources, events, and initiatives while fostering meaningful connections with the campus community and beyond. She shared insights into building a cohesive online presence across multiple platforms, including her role in launching new accounts for UMaine Press and aligning social media efforts across Merrill and Fogler Libraries.
MCA began in April 2020, when archivists and librarians in Maine began meeting to share ideas for building community-based archives to document the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, these cultural heritage professionals formed the MCA, a network that connects digital archives projects from across the state. Special Collections and Project Archivists Matthew Revitt and Herb Dittersdorf are both members of MCA.
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New from Special Collections and Projects: Registrar records from the 1913 to 1974 period; Student group history and more
The Special Collections and Projects Department in Fogler Library has added new records to the online archival content management tool ArchivesSpace.
Records from the tenures of James A. Gannett (1913–53) and George H. Crosby (1955–74) as registrar of the University of Maine are now available to researchers. The records include details of the organization of the University of Maine Spring Festival, first held in 1961, and featuring a range of local, national and international performers. The records also include information surrounding the organization of the University of Maine’s Freshman Week, which was first established at the opening of the fall 1923 semester. The purpose of the week was to help the members of the incoming class adjust themselves to their new environment.
There are also details of the founding and history of specific student groups on campus, including the forming of the Republican Club on campus in 1924 and Physics Club in 1939; the work of Maine in Turkey, an “educational project” that aimed to “inculcate high ideas to promote friendliness toward other nations, and to encourage the adoption of modern methods of education and life”; and a letter from Lee Vrooman (Class of 1918) to registrar James A. Gannett from Harpoot, Turkey regarding the Turkish War of Independence; and the training of soldiers at the University of Maine during World War Two.
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Therapy Dogs at Fogler today and Thursday! | |
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Featured resource: Psychiatry Online
Psychiatry Online is a searchable full text database that includes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Library (DSM) Library, scholarly journals, and textbooks published by the American Psychiatry Association.
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