Fogler Library’s Special Collections helped welcome back the UMaine classes of 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, and 1973, with an exhibit of items from the University Archive in the Buchanan Alumni House. The exhibit was part of the Senior Alumni Reunion on campus September 28-30, 2023. Also on display was a video of UMaine Black Bear’s […]

Fogler Library’s Digital Commons Curator assisted The New York Times in preparing the piece Overlooked No More: Molly Nelson, Steward of Penobscot Culture.  The article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. For those who would like to view the full […]

It’s now possible to access online the transcripts, audio files and photographs for this collection of more than 50 interviews conducted from 2000 to 2004 with people associated with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) and the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine. There are also several photographs and video footage of the […]

Special Collections recently had an exhibit at the Franco-American Centre on campus honoring Rudy Vallée, who popularized the Maine Stein Song. Hubert Prior Vallée grew up in Westbrook, Maine and attended the University of Maine as a member of the Class of 1925, before enjoying an illustrious career in show business. The Centre’s “rassemblement” or […]

As noted in UMaine News, Michael Socolow, associate professor at the Department of Communications and Journalism, presented on April 29 at the 2023 Radio Preservation Task Force conference in Washington, D.C.  He spent several days in Special Collections accessing the Floyd Gibbons Papers while preparing for the talk. Socolow, who was a member of the […]

Each year Fogler Library’s Special Collections Department hosts numerous class and student group researchers. Our most recent visit was from the All Maine Women honors society who make an annual trip to us to look at records from their group’s 100 years of history. The online All Maine Women records finding aid provides detailed information […]

Happy finals week! For those looking for some extra Black Bear spirit to get them through finals week we recommend visiting a Special Collections exhibit on the Stein Song on the first floor of Fogler on the Center Hallway on Level 1. The exhibit features a video of students singing the Stein Song from circa […]

Ahead of the rededication of Beryl Warner Williams Hall, Special Collections was honored to welcome members of Beryl’s family to look at records we have on her time at UMaine as an undergraduate (Class of 1935), graduate (1940), and from when she received an honorary degree in 1972. Our colleagues at Bangor Public Library also […]

Fogler Library Special Collections is excited to be a stop the Scavenger Hunt for the Maine National History Day competition, an event for students in grades 6-12 co-organized by the Margaret Chase Smith Library and the University of Maine Department of History. For the first time in four years, the state contest will be meeting […]

The Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History collection MF162, Immigrants and Identity, is now available online. In 2005, the Maine Folklife Center and the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine studied and presented ways that immigrants in central and eastern Maine connected themselves with their ethnicity. These fifteen interviews were conducted from February […]