The Maine Annex, vol. 1, Extra

The Maine Annex, published by the students of the University of Maine at the Brunswick Campus, was launched January 10, 1947. Editors introduced the publication as the product of a group of progressive students attending the Brunswick Campus. The goal of the publication, according to editors, was to tell the story of our life on this campus. The four-page, tabloid-sized paper included display advertising from area businesses. Following World War II, the federal G.I. Bill enabled approximately 2.3 million, predominantly white male Veterans to receive a post-secondary education. To accommodate increased enrollment, in 1946 the University of Maine established the Brunswick Campus at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. The remote campus operated until spring 1949, when Veteran registrations waned. This two-page Extra edition of The Maine Annex features several stories related to the launch of the fund drive to build the Memorial Union on the University of Maine, Orono campus with fundraising goal of $21,000 for the Brunswick campus. Student donations from the Orono launch event netted an estimated$94,000. Where the Memorial Gymnasium was constructed as a tribute to World War I war dead among the Alumni, the Memorial Union was to serve as a tribute to 175 UMaine Alumni who died in World War II

Focused Ion Beam Fabrication

Contains summary of research program and reports on four research projects.Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Contract DL-H-225270)Hughes Research LaboratoriesInternational Business Machines, Inc. (Contract 456614)Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Inc.U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research (Contract N00014-84-K-0073)U.S. Department of Defense (Contract MDA903-85-C-0215)Hitachi Central Research Laborator

Audio Recorders to Zucchini Seeds: Building a Library of Things

This contributed volume provides a survey of library of things projects within the United States, from both public and academic libraries, offering real-world lessons learned from these early experiments with nontraditional collections. The authors offer practical insights from their projects, from the development of their initial ideas to the everyday realities of maintaining and circulating these collections, including cataloging, space needs, safety concerns, staff training, circulation, marketing, and assessment. The contributed chapters are organized thematically, covering things collections that encompass a wide variety of objects first, followed by collections with a community-building focus (seeds, recreation, tools) and those that serve an educational purpose, such as curriculum centers, children\u27s toys, or collections that support a university curriculum. The last section addresses collections that support media production

Les « bibliothèques d’objets » aux États-Unis

Objets divers et « kits de découverte » (Deschutes Public Library, site de la Sisters Library) Clichés Tina Davis. © Deschutes Public Library Aux États-Unis est apparue une nouvelle tendance qui a pris une importance considérable dans le milieu des bibliothèques ces dernières années : bibliothèques municipales, universitaires ou indépendantes, dans tout le pays, initient des « bibliothèques d’objets » (« libraries of things »). Ainsi la Fayetteville Public Library (Arkansas) prête des outils..