UMAINE LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER | | |
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 events.
| |
New event series: Open Educational Resources
UMaine Libraries is excited to announce a new event series focused on Open Educational Resources (OER): free teaching and learning materials that can be accessed, reused, adapted, and shared at no cost. OER promotes equitable access to education while offering educators the flexibility to customize course content beyond traditional textbooks. Research shows OER positively impacts student learning outcomes and success, particularly for first-generation and underrepresented students, while helping all students save money on course materials. Please join us as we guide faculty through discovering, implementing, and creating OER tailored to your teaching needs.
Join us for our first session:
Unlocking Knowledge with Open Educational Resources
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 2
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Fogler Library Classroom 1 and via Zoom for UMM instructors
This first event will introduce the following topics:
- What are Open Educational Resources?
- Benefits of OER
- Where do I start with OER?
- How can I get involved with OER?
Bonus: Exciting announcements about OER at UMaine Libraries!
Please use our Sign-Up Form to register, mark your attendance, and receive the Zoom link. We hope to see many of you there!
| |
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!
| | |
“Mary and Molly” Salon event: Recording now available
The recording of Fogler Library’s recent salon, “Mary and Molly: Film screening and discussion” is now available for viewing on the Salon website.
While the film itself cannot be shown in this recording due to licensing restrictions, this video features the panel discussion that followed the screening of “Mary and Molly,” a 20-minute animated film directed by Donna Loring and David Camlin and based on Loring’s 2016 play. The story follows Mary, a young woman who discovers her Penobscot ancestry and connects with her ancestor Molly Molasses, opening a conversation about identity, heritage, and belonging.
| | |
Nursing & Allied Health Reference Source (NAHRS)
Nursing & Allied Health Reference Source (NAHRS) is a new system-wide resource for researchers studying nursing, allied health, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, rehabilitation and other related fields. It provides evidence-based care sheets, clinical reviews, exercise sheets, skills with in-context images and videos, quick lessons and research instruments. Along with Dynamic Health, NAHRS was developed to replace Nursing Reference Center Plus. NAHRS and Dynamic Health are both accessible to UMOrono/Machias from UMaine Libraries’ Database List.
For questions about NAHRS, reach out to our Nursing Subject Specialist Librarian, Heather Perrone.
| | |
Ceramics students display their work at Fogler Library
Vases created by students in Professor Constant Albertson’s Art 225 Ceramics I class are currently on display at Fogler Library. Based on the theme of “memory and tradition,” the collection encompasses a broad range of intriguing shapes and colors. All are invited to come and get a taste of the work being done by our art students.
Fogler Library is also hosting an exhibit created by two Art seniors, Rosemary Lavin and Vi Nelson. Together, the two artists have created a varied and colorful display that is sure to delight the viewer.
Lavin is an Art Education major who plans to move on to teaching art full time after graduating in Spring 2026. Her favorite theme is domestic/serene life. She loves to capture the feeling of calmness inside the home, and woodland animals in their natural state. Her art aims to fill people with that relaxed feeling, and hopefully bring them to that same headspace she loves to be in.
Nelson, an 18-year USAF veteran, is completing their BFA degree with a concentration in Sculpture/Ceramics and will be graduating in May of 2026. Their work is often whimsical and refers back to their nostalgic childhood spent on the Maine coast. They also have a body of work tackling the gender issues of being nonbinary. Primarily a ceramic artist who also dabbles in the various other craft media, they are currently exploring all the different ways that clay can be manipulated to make sound. They want their art to be used and enjoyed and hope to be able to continue creating ceramic instruments for others to use.
| | New to the catalog: Composing from beyond | | |
Fogler Library’s music score collection has added some new-ish works by deceased composers via spirit medium and composer, Rosemary Brown (1916–2001).
“Music from beyond: seven pieces for piano solo” and “The Rosemary Brown piano album: 7 pieces inspired by Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms & Liszt” were composed by Brown, who stated
| | |
in her book, “Unfinished Symphonies” (W. Morrow, 1971), that the composers had different ways of dictating to her — one sang the notes, one controlled her hands and she wrote the notes later, some simply dictated, but all spoke in English.
You can view the “Music from beyond” library record here, and “The Rosemary Brown piano album” is detailed here.
| |
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!
| |
|
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America includes full text of selected works relating to American Indian history in the United States, Canada and Mexico, as well as visual material such as art work, photographs, and maps. Content is digitized from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world.
| | | | In complying with the letter and spirit of applicable laws and pursuing its own goals of diversity, the University of Maine System does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, familial status, ancestry, age, disability physical or mental, genetic information, or veterans or military status in employment, education, and all other programs and activities. The University provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies: Director of Equal Opportunity, 5703 Alumni Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5754, 207.581.1226, TTY 711 (Maine Relay System) |
| | | |
Raymond H. Fogler Library
