A growing number of Special Collections holdings are being digitized and made available through our institutional repository, DigitalCommons@UMaine. Access more than 55,000 items that have been digitized from the library collections so far.

Visit our Digital Collections

One of the collections being digitized is the Sewall Company Aerial Photographs. This short video created by a member of our staff highlights some of the research possibilities of this collection.

Our largest collection of oral history interviews, the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, is being made available online through our ArchivesSpace database. Most interviews include audio files, a transcript or outline, and many include photographs.

Access NAFOH in Archives Space

Featured Digital Item

Many of our collections include audio and video files. This WLBZ Radio Station documentary was prepared to air on New Years Day, 1970. Follow this link to listen to The Sounds of the Sixties: the Events and People That Shaped the Decade. A PDF transcript is also available for download.

Contact Special Collections

We hope you enjoyed this virtual tour of Fogler Library’s Special Collections Department. For more information, call us at 207.581.1686 or um.library.spc@maine.edu.