UMAINE LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER

September 2, 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 listing of events.

Research & Instruction upcoming events

Library Scavenger Hunt

On Wednesday, September 3 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. take part in a library scavenger hunt designed to introduce you to a variety of library locations, resources and people who can help you in your research. Begin at any of the first floor service desks in the library. Prizes will be awarded.

 Academic Honesty Workshop

Colleges and universities have their own set of academic honesty rules. Come to Fogler Library’s Academic Honesty Workshop to learn more about these rules, and to get hands-on experience with some of the skills you’ll need to know to write your own research papers. The workshop will be offered on September 8 and 15 from 4–5 p.m. in Library Classroom 1; it will be the same workshop both days, so you only need to attend once. To register for the workshop, visit this link.

Worldbuilding Workshop



On September 9 from 4–5 p.m. in Library Classroom 1, we will discuss research methods and resources to help make your worldbuilding more engaging and realistic. We will contextualize this in a brief survey of worldbuilding in fiction. This workshop is ideal for creative writers, gamemasters, and anybody interested in worldbuilding. To register for the workshop, visit this link.

UMaine Press editors discuss “Maine Amphibians and Reptiles” on “Maine Calling”

On Wednesday, August 27, Maine Public Radio’s “Maine Calling” featured editors Mac Hunter and Phillip deMaynadier discussing the brand-new third edition of “Maine Amphibians and Reptiles” (UMaine Press, 2025). UMaine Press is a division of UMaine Libraries.

This landmark volume welcomes readers into the lives of 38 Maine species — from turtles and snakes to salamanders, frogs, and toads — and covers nearly all herpetofauna in the Northeast from eastern New York to Newfoundland. Twenty-five years in the making, the edition synthesizes 20,000+ distribution records contributed by 3,000 observers, incorporates 600+ new references, and brings together insights from 27 authors. A dramatically expanded portfolio of color photographs and artwork (including contributions from five artists) helps bring these stories to life for naturalists, educators, and curious readers alike.

Click below to listen to the recording of the episode.

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!

New from Special Collections and Projects: Papers of

Carl Little; UMaine funded research records

The Special Collections and Projects Department in Fogler Library has added two new collections to the online archival content management tool ArchivesSpace.

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Carl Little is the author and producer of several books on the art of Maine, including “The Art of Maine in Winter”, and “Art of Penobscot Bay”, he has also published two personal poetry anthologies, “3,000 Dreams Explained” (1992) and “Ocean Drinker: New & Selected Poems” (2006). 

Little’s career as a curator, director of public affairs at the College of the Atlantic’s Ethel Blum Gallery, lecturer, and writer, has put him in contact with some of Maine’s most renowned contemporary artists. Little’s dedication and passion to and for Maine’s unique place in the art world is evident throughout his collection, which consists of correspondence and interviews with the hundreds of artists he worked with, and many volumes of independent Maine artists’ and poetry magazines spanning his entire career.

Little has connections and correspondence with the Monhegan Artist’s Residency Corporation (MARC), which provides residencies to artists who wish to create on the historic artist’s colony Monhegan Island. Monhegan Island has inspired impactful painters, such as Andrew Wyeth, for over 150 years. He worked with several museums in coastal Maine, such as the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, providing art history education to the public.

Carl Little’s work has been a vital part of the Maine art community since he started working in the state in 1989, and his collection will preserve the work he’s done for both the contemporary artists of Maine, and the colorful art history of the state, particularly the coastal and island regions.

(Photos: Carl Little, and the cover of Portrait of a Maine Island)

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Summer student employee Madeline Howorth has recently completed processing and producing a finding aid for the 12 boxes of Vice President for Research Records that describe important University of Maine funded research carried out by UMaine faculty from 1929–1982. The funds for the research were administered by UMaine’s former Faculty Research Committee.

As part of the processing work Howorth transferred material to archival quality acid-free folders and boxes. Howorth also organized the material and added file names and title information, both on the folders themselves and in Special Collections and Project’s content management system ArchivesSpace. The end result of this work was the creation of an archival finding aid to allow the content to be more easily found by researchers from across the globe.

(Photos: Madeleine Howorth)

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