UMaine Libraries Newsletter — May 20, 2025

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May 20, 2025

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!

Fogler Librarians present at Maine Library Association Annual Conference

At this year’s Maine Library Association Conference, librarians Christopher Clark and John Hutchinson 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.”

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.

Books and other items on display at Alumni Association event

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 those 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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Global Plants

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Merrill Library Newsletter

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

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