Category: Events | UNE Library Services

Banned Book Week

Banned Books Week

October 8, 2026

11:30 pm

Biddeford Campus Ketchum Library

Library censorship and pressure to limit or ban access to books and other media have increased in the US over the last year. Censorship touches everyone. Public libraries, school libraries & curricula, and higher education have all been impacted by organized attempts to restrict freedom to read and other First Amendment rights of freedom of [...]

Donna M. Loring Lecture

October 16, 2026

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, UNE Biddeford Campus

Psite ehpicik kcipokehtuwannuk – We Honor All Women During this time when women’s rights are being eroded and women’s historical accomplishments are being suppressed, we must have productive conversations about why this is happening and what can be done to support and protect the rights of women as full participants in society and culture. This [...]

AI for Research Workshop

October 5, 2026

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Commons 320

Izabella Botto Learn best tips and tricks for finding and evaluating peer-reviewed articles with Consensus, an AI tool built for locating scholarly literature across all subjects. Lunch provided. Registration required. Open to all UNE students, staff and faculty. Facilitated by research and teaching librarian Izabella Botto. Register to Attend

Your Vote 2026

National Voter Registration Day

September 15, 2026

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Ripich Commons

Everything you need to know about voting in November's elections. Register to vote, ask questions about voting, or just grab a UNE Votes sticker. General Election Day On November 3, registered Maine voters will decide on a full ballot including races for governor, congress, and the state legislature. Why it Matters Your vote is your voice—and [...]

Arrows & Operators: Visual Debates in Music

July 10, 2026

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

July 10 - November 1, 2026 Opening reception Friday, July 10, 5 - 7 p.m.; featuring a live performance of selections from Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise Beginning in the 1950s, composers in search of new sounds and new modes of performance began to push beyond the limits of traditional notation and experiment with alternative ways of [...]

Gone From My Sight

Closing reception

June 6, 2026

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Portland Campus Art Gallery

March 6 - June 8, 2026 Please join the UNE Art Gallery and Westbrook College Alumni Weekend for a closing reception for our remarkable exhibition Gone From My Sight. Artist walkthroughs; live music; food and drink! Free and open to the public, no registration required. We hope to see you there! The experience of loss is [...]

Another Shore: Migration In Our Time

Another Shore opening

June 5, 2026

4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Biddeford Campus Art Gallery

June 5 - October 25, 2026 Another Shore looks at issues surrounding climate migration, political disruption, and how even a simple act of relocation is an act of upheaval and faith. Artists include Portsmouth artist Sachiko Akiyama, whose carved wood sculptures evoke voyages and transformation; New York sculptor M. Annenberg, who looks at the human impacts [...]

15 Minutes of Infamy: Ill-behaved Women and the Making of History

March 26, 2026

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

MWWC

Join us for this celebration of Women’s History Month with a talk by Dr. Elizabeth DeWolfe! Refreshments start at 4:30 p.m. If “well-behaved women seldom make history,” as historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich famously quipped, ill-behaved women certainly dominated the historical headlines. Such women were branded as passive, irrational, or depraved, their lives reduced to colorful [...]

OER-AI-UDL Learning Lab

March 6, 2026

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Alfond 230 and Online

Maine’s higher education institutions are coming together to address the rising cost of course materials and the fast-changing landscape of Generative AI. Join colleagues from UMA, UMaine, and UNE for a high-impact Learning Lab facilitated by Lance Eaton—an applied working session for faculty and academic professionals ready to move beyond the basics. Participants will design, [...]

Open Textbook Workshop

March 4, 2026

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Zoom

Join UNE Library Services Scholarly Communication Librarian Sonya Durney March 4 at 2 p.m. for an interactive Zoom workshop on open textbooks. Learn how open educational resources (OER) can enhance student learning, reduce textbook costs, and provide customizable course materials. Whether you're new to OER or looking to deepen your understanding, this session will equip [...]