Friends of UMaine Libraries Newsletter — June 6, 2025
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In This Issue:
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Fogler librarians present at Maine Library Association Annual Conference
- Recording of Salon event now available
- Fogler showcases student art
- Fogler Library helps the Alumni Association celebrate its 150th anniversary
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Fogler Librarians present at Maine Library Association Annual Conference
At this year’s Maine Library Association Conference, librarian Christopher Clark discussed the Maine Business, Science and Technology Library (MBSTL). MBSTL is an ongoing project spearheaded by business and science librarians to curate and manage publicly accessible resources to serve and support small businesses within the state of Maine.
This presentation included an overview of MBSTL at the University of Maine, its resources, its collaboration efforts with public libraries and small businesses, and its efforts to make useful information available within areas of interest to the public.
Lindsay Decker, ILL & Asst. Collection Services Librarian, participated in several sessions at MLA’s Annual Conference. She presented “Long-shots and Side Quests: Filling those Hard-to-get Interlibrary Loan Requests” on tools and strategies for communicating with libraries internationally to borrow materials for library patrons. In collaboration with Harley Rogers from the University of Mississippi, she co-presented “Sustainable Social Media: Balancing Patron Rights and Library Protection” on crafting library social media policies to protect patron safety, privacy and first amendment rights. Along with other members of MLA’s Intellectual Freedom committee, she also facilitated discussion on the topic of “Resisting Soft Censorship: Building a Community of Practice.”
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Recording of Salon event now available
If you missed our recent Salon event “Artificial Intelligence in Business: Opportunity, Disruption, or Both?” you may now view the recording here.
Please visit our website for links to recordings of other past events in our Salon Series. Details of our upcoming 2025–2026 series will be added to the website as more information becomes available.
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Fogler showcases student art
Fogler Library is currently displaying the artwork of four students who participated in art classes this past year and whose work was shown in exhibits organized by Professor Diana Baumbach. We thank Dr. Baumbach who regularly partners with Fogler Library on the curation of student artwork.
The exhibit is located in the north-south hallway that connects the old and new parts of the library and it will be available for viewing through the 2025–26 academic year. Please stop by when you are in the area to enjoy the work of these talented young artists.
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Fogler Library helps the Alumni Association celebrate its 150th anniversary
To help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Alumni Association, items from the University Archive were on display at the Annual Alumni Achievement Awards Dinner and Ceremony held on May 2nd.
Items on display included the meeting minutes for the Association’s first board meeting in 1875; an invitation for the first Annual Maine Night (1901); examples of different fundraising campaigns including for Fogler Library, the Memorial Gym, and Memorial Union; photographs of class reunions and picnics going back to the 1870s; first editions of various Alumni Association publications; and a 1963 Distinguished Maine Professor Award coat given to Walter S. Schoenberger.
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