Merrill Library Newsletter

Merrill Library Newsletter –April 5, 2024

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In This Issue:

Author Reading & Reception
Introduction to Patents & Trademarks
Salon Series: Up in Smoke: Myths & Facts about Cannabis
Featured Resource: PLI Plus

Author Reading & Reception

Tuesday, April 23 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Penny Guisinger, author of Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions will read from her memoir and take questions in Merrill Library on Tuesday, April 23rd at 3pm. The event is free and open to the public.

Penny is the author of Postcards from Here. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Guernica, River Teeth and other publications.

"In Shift, Penny recounts formative relationships with women and men, including the marriage that produced her two children and ultimately ended in part due to her affair with her now-wife." - University of Nebraska Press

"The specificity of this memoir - its depth, its nuance, its balance, and its story grips you and doesn't let go."- Morgan Talty author of Night of the Living Rez

Introduction to Patents & Trademarks

Friday, April 12 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Learn what patents and trademarks are, how to search for them and understand the application process. Join Fogler Library Business and Economics Librarian, John Hutchinson. This hybrid event will be available over Zoom and in Classroom 1 in Fogler Library. This event is free and advance registration is required. Please register here.

Up in Smoke: Myths & Facts about Cannabis

Thursday, April 18, 6:00 pm -7:30 pm

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Let’s Talk Weed

Please join the UMaine Counseling Center, Student Wellness Resource Center, and their expert panelists for a lively discussion about cannabis – myths, facts, & how cannabis impacts your brain & mental health.

This salon will be moderated by Angela Fileccia, LCSW, Director of the Counseling Center, and Kevin Hudson, MA, Student Wellness Educator.

Robert Glover, PhD, Political Science & Honors

John Hudak, Director, Maine Office of Cannabis Policy

Krutika Rathod, Doctoral Student, Clinical Psychology

Peter Sparks, PhD, Department of Psychology

This is a hybrid event and will not be recorded.

Featured Resource: PLI Plus

You can now find PLI Plus on Merrill's List of Databases! PLI (Practicing Law Institute) Plus is a database full of relevant information for your legal research. Check it out to explore scholarly work on a variety of trending topics in legal research. You’ll find authoritative publications, treatises, and analyses of precedent decisions as well as recent legal developments and trends. If you need a reliable resource for a research topic in the field of law, you’ll want to do some searching in PLI Plus.

Thank you to the UMaine School of Law for extending their access of this database to the entire UMaine System!

If you have questions about using this database, reach out to Fogler Library's Political Science Subject Specialist, Nancy Lewis at lewis@maine.edu.

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