Maine Memory Network

Awards

The Maine Memory Network has received awards or recognition from the following organizations:

• American Association of Museums
• American Association for State and Local History
• Maine Library Association's Annual Conference
• Maine Archives and Museums
• Electronic Commerce Forum of Maine

Articles

Several scholarly and popular articles have been written about the Maine Memory Network including:

• Portland Press Herald
  • "Maine history going online" - December 3, 2001
  • "A new Web site packed with the documents of Maine's storied past - at www.mainememory.net - gives history buffs and young scholars the ability to ... download memory lane" - December 30, 2001
  • "Lincoln County historical group gets grant to put artifacts online" - May 2, 2003
  • "Through the eyes of Longfellow" - July 26, 2003
  • "Putting faces on Portland's antislavery struggle" - Feb 29, 2004
  • "Maine history at your fingertips" - June 3, 2004
  • "Network receives $349,000 for new Maine History" - September 24, 2006
  • "Click a mouse, take a trip back in time" - March 9, 2008
  • "Funding for 'Zoom In' invigorates the rediscovery of history" - June 26, 2010
  • "Picturing Portland in the digital age" - December 28, 2011
  • "Portland photo collection 'a time machine'" - Dec 30, 2013
  • "Maine Eats exhibit in Portland digs into evolution of state's cuisine" - February 28, 2018
• Bangor Daily News
  • "Milford students catalog town history on the web" - February 10, 2005
  • "Bangor, Blue Hill, Guilford, Lincoln among 8 chosen for heritage project" - July 4, 2009
  • "Students help catalog historic photographs" - March 23, 2010
  • "That time the Civil War was fought in Portland Harbor" - December 11, 2017
  • "8 photos from Maine's history that give a glimpse of how things used to be" - November 6, 2017
• Down East Magazine: "Peering into the Past" - November 2004
• Access Learning Magazine: "Saving Hometown History" - March 2004
• The Journal of American History: Web Site Review
• New England Archivists: "Maine Memory Network: The Challenges of Digital Collaboration"
• The New England Quarterly: "The Digital Academy: An Annotated Bibliography of African-American History Websites" - March 2002
• Family Tree Magazine: "101 Best Websites for Tracing Your Roots" - August 2002
• Collections: A Journal of Museum and Archives Professionals: "Digitizing and Imaging Review" - Fall 2004
• History News:
  • "HISTORY BYTES: Going Beyond an Ordinary Online Database" - Winter 2008
  • "2005 award winners" - Winter 2006
  • "HISTORY BYTES: Online Databases" - Autumn 2003
• Ithaka S&R: "Searching for Sustainability: Strategies from Eight Digitized Special Collections" - November 2013"
• The History Teacher: "The Lens of the Local: Teaching an Appreciation of the Past through the Exploration of Local Sites, Landmarks, and Hidden Histories" - May 2015

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