UMaine Libraries Newsletter — January 28, 2025 - Raymond H. Fogler Library

UMaine Libraries Newsletter — January 28, 2025

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UMaine Libraries Newsletter — January 28, 2025

UMaine Libraries is composed of Raymond H. Fogler Library, Merrill Library in Machias, Maine InfoNet, and the University of Maine Press.

In this issue:

Research and Instruction workshops
New from Special Collections and Projects: Listening in to history
Featured Resource: Choice Reviews Online

Research and Instruction workshops

Fogler’s Research & Instruction Department is offering two workshops next week, the first in

our Generative AI workshop series, and a new hands-on Zine creation workshop:

Generative AI: Evaluate and Cite

Learn to evaluate generative AI tools, and their output. We’ll help you to find the best generative AI tools for your task while avoiding hallucinations and plagiarism. This workshop will be held Feb. 4 from 4–5 p.m., and is hybrid, with both a Zoom and an in-person option (Library Classroom 2). When you register, you will receive the Zoom link.

Flyer advertising Fun with Zines workshop

Flyer advertising AI evaluate and cite workshop

Making an Issue: A Zine Workshop

Learn about the history of zines in this in-person, hands-on workshop and create a zine to take home. It will be held February 5, 4–5 p.m. in Library Classroom 1, and you can register here.

New from Special Collections and Projects: Listening in to history

The Special Collections and Projects Department welcomed UMaine staff members and alums Julie and Ron Lisnet (pictured below, left) to use equipment to digitize audio cassette recordings of stories told by Julie’s late mother Gertrude Brandt Arnold of her escaping Germany during World War II. It was the first time Julie had heard her mom speak since she passed away seven years ago.

The photo on the right is of Gertrude from 1945 on the border between what would become East and West Germany. It was taken by Julie’s father James Arnold.

The last time Gertrude crossed the border (she did it seven or eight times to bring food to her family), she came out in the American sector and got a job in an American Air Force mess hall. Julia’s father was a pilot in the AF and that’s how they met.

On one of her several trips across the border she was shot at and incarcerated by the Russians. It was by a fluke that they interrogated her on a Saturday night when most of them were out drinking and dancing that she escaped.

Photograph of Gertrude Arnold as a young woman

Featured Resource: Choice Reviews Online

Choice Reviews Online provides reviews of academic books and other resources, including online sources, for academic libraries and users. It includes bibliographic essays and feature articles, forthcoming titles lists, Outstanding Academic Titles (OATs), and editorials.

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