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 […]

Raymond H. Fogler’s Special Collections Department has established the University of Maine COVID-19 Community Archive Project. The goal of this project is to create a community archive that will preserve the story of this unprecedented time in our community. To create this archive, Fogler Library hopes members of the UMaine community will document their experiences […]

A specific portion of DigitalCommons@UMaine includes digital versions of materials in Fogler Library’s Special Collections Department. This page, Browse Special Collections, is a jumping off point for viewing materials on the History of Maine Fisheries, Maine Bicentennial, Maine Environmental Collection, Maine Government Documents and Town Reports, a wide range of items on Maine History, Maine […]

Our colleagues at the Maine Historical Society and the Department of History at the University of Maine have been working to make their scholarly journal, Maine History, available to everyone online.  A subscription to Maine History is one of the benefits of membership in MHS, and members have had access to digital articles for some […]