Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections has published oral history recordings from MF144, the “Women in the Military” collection of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History. The full collection features recorded interviews with nearly 70 female military veterans serving between World War II and the Gulf War. Forty-nine of these interviews were published […]

Fogler’s Special Collections helped celebrate this year’s UMaine Sports Hall of Fame ceremony with memorabilia from the University Archive on display for each of the award recipients. For more information, contact Matthew at 207.581.2665 or matthew.revitt@maine.edu.  His online Guide to the University Archive also provides more information about the current collection, how to use the archive, and the […]

Fogler Library archivists and librarians partnered with colleagues from the University of Southern Maine, club founders, and other community members to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the LGBTQ+ student club, Wilde-Stein. An exhibit on the founding of the club, Those who will know Pride; The Start of the UMaine’s Wilde Stein Club, was unveiled in […]

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 […]