UMaine Libraries Newsletter — April 8, 2025

UMAINE LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER

April 8, 2025

EVENTS

You are invited to Fogler Library’s public events! Stay up-to-date by following our social media accounts listed at the bottom of this email, and check out our website for a complete list of upcoming events.

Photo of east entrance of Fogler Library

Garden with Fogler!

As part of this year’s Maine Day of Service, we will be tidying up the gardens around Fogler and planting some new shrubs. We would love for you to join us! We’ll be out near the East Entrance of the library (across from the Memorial Union) from 8–11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30. 


Tools will be provided by Facilities Management, so no need to bring your own. Please email Rosie Seaber <rosie.seaber@maine.edu> with any questions. 

Above photo: East entrance of Fogler Library

NEWS

Stay updated on events, resources and projects at Fogler Library and across UMaine Libraries. Discover what’s new and exciting in our library community!

Photo of student employee TJ Lewis

Library Student Ambassadors interview: TJ Lewis in Library Storage


Fogler’s Student Ambassadors will be interviewing our student workers through the spring semester. This week’s interview was conducted by Chantelle Flores.


TJ is a fourth-year finance major with the Maine Business School. In his free time, he enjoys playing intramural sports, especially basketball, and walking the campus. Currently, his favorite book is John Green’s “Looking for Alaska.” 


For the past four years, TJ has worked as a student library aide in Fogler Library’s Storage, a building dedicated to storing and organizing special collections and publicly donated materials. His work duties involve sorting and organizing boxes of mixed materials for archive spaces, which often includes preparing materials for UMaine’s digital archives. TJ describes a large part of Library Storage’s collection as physical, Maine-focused archival materials. For TJ, one of the joys of working at the Annex is being able to work with “incredible” co-workers. 


TJ’s favorite thing about Fogler is the third floor double-decker desks and their views of the bookshelves. When asked what he wished students would know more about Fogler, TJ wished students would “utilize the special collections room more often,” with their skilled and specialized workers who are “always willing to help out.” Both Fogler Library and Library Storage workers share the goal of wanting to aid students in any way they can, and students can find out more about staff, materials, and other information from both locations on Fogler’s website.

Fogler Library Suggestion Box


Would you like to tell us what you like about Fogler, what we are doing well, or how we might improve? If so, please visit our Suggestion Box and let us know what you think of us!


Scene from 2024 Student Symposium

Students encouraged to upload their work to Digital Commons


Please encourage students to celebrate their participation in Maine Impact Week by uploading their abstract, poster, artwork, recorded oral presentation, or performance to DigitalCommons@UMaine, the university’s open-access institutional repository. The Non-Thesis Student Work series showcases undergraduate and graduate student scholarship approved by academic advisors for deposit. Visit the Fogler Library website for additional information, including the authorization form and submission instructions.


Photo: Scene from the 2024 Student Symposium.

Digital Object Identifiers minting service now available


Fogler Library now offers a service for minting Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for UMaine System publications, research, and shared objects. This service is available to any current student, staff, or faculty member from any University of Maine System campus. A Digital Object Identifier is a unique and persistent identifier and URL for a publication/object. It serves as an enduring path to the object’s location online despite changes to hosting over time. DOIs offer many benefits to your work, providing permanent and stable access to your material. This enhances discoverability, making it easy for others to accurately cite your work. That, in turn, improves tracking and metrics, allowing automated systems to easily track citations of your work. For more information about DOIs, click the link below or contact Open Scholarship Librarian Casey Koons.

Learn more about DOIs

FEATURED RESOURCE

Find unique databases and online resources available through the UMaine Catalog to enhance your research, teaching, and learning. Explore something new each week!

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy


Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an open-access, “scholarly dynamic reference work” that “maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research.” Its entries are written by scholars and refereed by an editorial board. Updated continuously.

Visit the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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