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| Faculty News Service |
| Fogler Library recently began a new weekly news service for University of Maine faculty. The service, called Library News, is a forum for publicizing events, collections, acquisitions, and services at the Library. The newsletter is sent out electronically through the campus e-mail system every Wednesday morning. A web version is posted shortly thereafter. Frank Wihbey, Head of Government Documents and Microforms and Gretchen Gfeller, Web and Public Relations Specialist, manage the service, which includes submissions from all library departments. |
| The weekly publication schedule means that the Library can now provide faculty with immediate access to information that may impact them or their students. It also provides a new arena for publicizing our projects and achievements. The inaugural issue included updates on the Sanford Phippen Papers and the Early American Imprints collection. As shown in the excerpts below, the newsletter uses a concise barebones style designed to provide as much information as possible in a limited space. |
| The following news stories are reprinted from The Fogler Library News Service, copyright 2002, Raymond H. Fogler Library. |
| A. SANFORD PHIPPEN PAPERS The papers of noted Maine writer Sanford "Sandy" Phippen are archived at the Special Collections Department and additions to the papers will continue to be received. Already arrived are manuscripts, correspondence, reviews, articles concerning literature in Maine, literature produced by the author, and works he participated in. Phippen, host of the MPB program "A Good Read" and a member of the Fogler Library Friends Advisory Board, is noted for his novels The Police Know Everything and Moody's Diner. Link to the Special Collections archives database: http://www.library.umaine.edu/speccoll/archives.htm |
| B. EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS 1620-1820 From Plymouth Rock to the "Second Revolutionary War" America's history, as reflected in printed matter published in the country from the earliest English settlements to 1820, are now available in microfiche in the Library. Originally itemized in Charles Evan's Bibliography of Early American Imprints, the collection was assembled by the American Antiquarian Society from copies extant worldwide. The filming was originally done by the Readex Microprint Corporation. The new edition is a microfiche regeneration to allow viewing and printing with modern equipment. All materials are listed in the URSUS online catalog by author, title, and subject. |