We Exist Series 5
Stories of African American Education and Employment in Maine
Contents: About We Exist | Acknowledgements | Technical Credits
About We Exist
We Exist is an ongoing six-part series looking at the history of Maine’s African American communities. Series 5: Stories of African American Education and Employment in Maine examines where African American have learned and worked.
Acknowledgements
We are indebted to our partners at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine Special Collections, and University of Southern Maine Libraries for their support in digitizing and building the exhibit site. This site was built by Libraries & Learning Digital Projects staff with the assistance of Special Collections, Libraries & Learning, and Osher Map Library staff.
Research scholar: Dr. Lance Gibbs (Race & Ethnic Studies and Talbot Fellow for the Gerald E. Talbot and African American Collections)
Digital Projects staff: Mary Holt (Digital Projects Manager) and Paul Fuller (Digital Projects Associate)
Imaging, content creation, and project assistance: Carrie Bell-Hoerth (Coordinator of the Gorham Library & Learning Commons), Elizabeth Chartrand (Digital Projects Assistant), Jessica Hovey (Operations and Communications Specialist for Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education), Nora Imbrahim (Digital Imaging Assistant for Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education), Megan MacGregor (Instruction and Outreach Librarian), Sara Naziri (Digital Projects Assistant), Shiloh Parker (Library Collections Manager), and Jill Piekut Roy (Special Collections Librarian).
Administrative support: Dr. Libby Bischof (Executive Director of Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education and Professor of History), Susie R. Bock (Coordinator of Special Collections and Director of the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine), Zach Newell (Dean of Libraries & Learning, and David Nutty (Director Emeritus of Libraries & Learning).
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
Using the CollectionBuilder-CSV template and the static website generator Jekyll, this project creates an engaging interface to explore driven by metadata.