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College Stories Project

College Stories Project

October 3, 2022

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Ketchum Library Art Gallery

Help UNE Archivists create History! Your story is important to us! Visit our story booth in the library to record a short audio interview about your experiences of college life at UNE. Intrigued, but don’t know what you might have to say? We will have prompts to help you think about what to share! Your [...]

Be Here Now: Practices for Mindfulness

Be Here Now: Practices for Mindfulness

December 7, 2022

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Ketchum Library Art Gallery

Join us for a weekly exploration of mindful-awareness practices that will help you to build a friendly relationship with your mind and allow you space to relax and reflect. We will meet for 30 minutes on Wednesdays to cultivate curiosity and happiness, with guided activities such as reflective writing, walking meditation, and focus on the [...]

Be Here Now: Practices for Mindfulness

Be Here Now: Practices for Mindfulness

September 28, 2022

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Ketchum Library Art Gallery

Join us for a weekly exploration of mindful-awareness practices that will help you to build a friendly relationship with your mind and allow you space to relax and reflect. We will meet for 30 minutes on Wednesdays to cultivate curiosity and happiness, with guided activities such as reflective writing, walking meditation, and focus on the [...]

Jack S. Ketchum Birthday Party

Jack S. Ketchum Birthday Party

September 15, 2022

11:30 am - 3:00 pm

Ketchum Library main floor

Come celebrate the birthday of former UNE President and library namesake Jack S. Ketchum. We'll have cornhole and board games, birthday cake, prizes and a raffle for a Chromebook.

Advocacy & Tea

Advocacy & Tea

September 8, 2022

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Ketchum Library Art Gallery

Wish you could join a book club but don't have time to read the books? Join us for an article/video club on issues of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion hosted by UNE Librarians Cathleen Miller and Sonya Durney. Join us the 2nd Thursday of every month from 3-4 p.m. in the Ketchum Art Gallery in the [...]

New Search Experience

You may notice that your library search results look a little different. We have recently switched the provider of our main search service from ProQuest's Summon to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). They both search the vast majority of our databases, library catalog and other collections, but may look and feel bit different and some features [...]

Borrow a Bike

The Portland Campus Library has bicycles to loan. Simply ask for a bike at the library information desk and enjoy a ride around the beautiful Evergreen Cemetary, run a local errand, or cruise around campus. We loan bikes for 4 hours, and helmets and locks are included. For more information come by the Portland Campus [...]

Found in the Archives

Found in the Archives

May 12, 2022 - May 22, 2022

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Online

Join us for an evening of stories discovered in archives with Dawn Potter (poet), Elizabeth DeWolfe (UNE history professor), and Carol Dana (Penobscot language master). Watch via Zoom, on the web, or on Facebook live. Dawn Potter is the author of nine books, most recently the poetry collection Accidental Hymn, forthcoming this spring. She directs poetry and teaching programs at [...]

Tuesday Meditation Group

We have everything we need to find contentment within ourselves--it is just a matter of practice. In this group, we will practice bringing ourselves back from our thoughts to a point of focus: where our bodies touch the Earth, our breath, a contemplation, our connection with others. This practice focuses on being gentle with ourselves, [...]

Place and Narrative in the North Atlantic

Place and Narrative in the North Atlantic

April 7, 2022

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

UNE Art Gallery at the Biddeford Campus Ketchum Library

Join UNE North director Holly Parker for a panel conversation with artists Ingunn Milla Joergensen & Alice Jones on the topic of a sense of place in the North Atlantic region's different nations. As part of the UNE Art Gallery's ongoing series of interdisciplinary public talks revolving around gallery exhibitions and academic overlap, this talk [...]