Editorial TeamChristopher ClarkMichael G DunnDaisy Domínguez Singh ContributorsChristopher ClarkMatthew DunlapMichael G DunnKen OlsonDaisy Domínguez Singh Design TeamJenna Davenport The Raymond H. Fogler Library Magazine is a yearly publication of Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine. Questions regarding the magazine can be directed to Christopher Clark at christopher.clark@maine.edu

Fogler Library is the largest library in Maine and supports the academic and intellectual pursuits of faculty, students, and staff at the University of Maine. Fogler Library also serves residents, libraries, and academic institutions throughout Maine and the Northeast as the regional depository for federal government publications, an official depository for Canadian federal publications, and […]

Since joining the exceptional staff at Fogler Library in October of 2022, I have been reflecting on our identity as an academic library within a land (and sea and space) grant university. We are the University of Maine flagship library and we are also open to the public. Fogler Library – an iconic building and […]

by Christopher Clark Imagine what it was like during your first visit to the library as an undergraduate. Maybe it felt overwhelming; learning a new classification system to find books, interacting with unfamiliar librarians, or learning how to navigate different and varied collections. When you are encountering new experiences, often you look to peers within […]

by Michael G. Dunn Following academic and technological innovations implemented in response to COVID-19, there was a sudden rise in the need for accommodations of video calls for online classes, video interviews, and virtual meetings. Far from a temporary response to a once in a century event, this blend of in-person and online interaction has […]

by Ken Olson Dean of Libraries Daisy Singh asked me to write about my decision to donate my professional and personal papers to Fogler and endow their curation. For twenty years of my three-decade conservation career, I was privileged to head three nonprofits—The Nature Conservancy of Connecticut, American Rivers, and Friends of Acadia. I served […]

by Daisy Domínguez Singh In 2007, John Marshall Webber, UMaine Class of 1970 and longtime member of the Friends of the Fogler Library Advisory Board, created the John M. Webber Fogler Digital Library Fund to support the purchase and creation of digital collections. When he passed away in 2022, he bequeathed an additional $1 million […]

Fogler Library is continually working to increase the digital content available through its institutional repository, Digital Commons. The University of Maine Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) project, a joint effort of Fogler Library and the Graduate School, provides full-text access to a large number of these works, primarily from 2001-present, but with scattered theses that […]

The iconic Fogler Library holds special meaning for many. We recently asked the public “What’s your Fogler story?” and received some great responses. “My parents, Jane Quimby ’58 and Mark Biscoe ’57 met in January of 1957 in the Reading Room at Fogler. He asked “May I sit here?” and the rest was history. Sixty […]