The Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History collection, Islands and Bridges: Communities of Memory in Old Town, Maine / French Island, is now available online through our ArchivesSpace database.  It is also possible to download a list of all the interviews as a  PDF finding aid for the collection through DigitalCommons@UMaine.  Links from either […]

New plexiglass is in place, furniture has been rearranged, and a new online appointment system is ready so that Special Collections is now open to members of the University of Maine System.  At this time, access to the building is limited to: Faculty, staff, and students of the University of Maine System; Staff from the […]

Matthew Revitt, Fogler Library’s Special Collections and Maine Shared Collection Librarian, was one of the presenters at a recent session, “All in This Together: Preserving Maine’s COVID-19 Memories,” an event organized by the Maine Community Archives Collaborative. A link to the meeting recording is available at https://mainestatelibrary.omeka.net/.

Three oral history interviews from the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History collection were recently featured on Coastal Conversations, a public affairs radio program on WERU Community Radio produced with support from Maine Sea Grant and hosted by Natalie Springuel.  The series explores current issues facing Maine’s coastal communities through conversations with people who […]

Interviews with 13 individuals gathered 1990-1991 on the topic of the NAACP and Civil Rights in Maine are now accessible online.  The collection is available in the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History section of our ArchivesSpace database, and links have been added to the library’s URSUS Catalog.  Each interview includes a complete transcript […]

Special Collections and Maine Shared Collections Librarian, Matthew Revitt, was asked to participate in a national panel on Collecting Stories from the Pandemic: Strategies for Libraries.  The CONTENTdm Community Insights session was held on May 19, with more than 300 in attendance.  Video of the session is available on the OCLC Video Channel in Vimeo. […]

Researchers can now access the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Acadia National Park collection online.  This Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History collection includes a series of interviews conducted by Maine Folklife Center staff with men who were enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s and served at one of the three […]

The WLBZ Radio Station collection now incorporates a new streaming audio feature available in DigitalCommons@UMaine. Users no longer need to download the audio file, but can instead click within each record to listen to the audio. Since the end of March, fifty new recordings have been posted, with a combined running time of nearly 13 […]

Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine received a donation of over 3,000 rolls of film containing about 1 million aerial images from the James W. Sewall Co. in Old Town, Maine. The collection contains original aerial photography of Maine and New England captured by Sewall over the span of 65 years. The […]