UMaine Alert

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 […]

The University of Maine has announced that conservationist and author Ken Olson has donated his professional papers to Fogler Library’s Special Collections Department, complementing materials held at the state’s largest library relating to the environment, resource conservation and policy in Maine and elsewhere. W. Kent Olson retired in 2006 from a three-decade conservation career that […]

In 1841, nearly 500 female factory workers walked out of Saco’s York Manufacturing Company and paraded up Main Street, chanting and singing. They gathered in a local church, formed a committee, and sent the factory owner a document articulating their complaints about wages, housing, and paternalistic rules. After a few days of fruitless negotiations with the […]

Several Fogler Library resources provide information on Maine’s newest federal conservation area, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, established August 24, 2016.  These items are currently on display near the north entrance of Fogler Library’s first floor. While several of these resources trace the controversy surrounding the establishment and management of the monument, others emphasize […]

Special Collections now has a station where patrons can scan photographs, pages from books, and documents and save them to email, USB, or cloud storage.  Settings offer the option to scan in color, grayscale, or black and white, and save as searchable PDF files or jpeg files.  This ScannX book scanner automatically crops images, easily […]

In celebration of Homecoming Weekend, Fogler Library has three new exhibits showcasing unique items from our University Archive. On the first floor, by the Oakes Room (north entrance to the Library), is an exhibit with items related to those classes holding reunions this year. For any Black Bear football fans, on the Center Hallway on […]

Digitized primary sources documenting student activism at the University of Maine are now available in the Reveal Digital’s Student Activism collection. The collection hosted by JSTOR aims to provide access to unique, yet essential, primary sources documenting the deep and broad history of student organizing in the United States. UMaine is among the first institutions […]

A condensed version of John McLeod’s history of Great Northern Paper Company was published in 1981 as The Northern: The Way I Remember, but McLeod worked on a much longer manuscript for more than 15 years. The full work is more than 2,700 pages long and was included in his research papers donated to Fogler […]