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Even when classes are over, faculty members still find a way to contribute to the university community.
With multiple faculty, professors and members of the Orono community in attendance, the Fogler Library held a tapas bar on Thursday in the University Club, located on the second floor of the library.
“Fogler Library is committed to holding a series of dinners and gatherings for the university and local committee,” said Gretchen Gfeller, public relations manager for Fogler Library.
“Our goal is to provide a venue for people to share food, ideas and love for Fogler Library.”
The idea of the event was created by Kathleen March, a professor of Spanish.
As for the word tapas, it is Spanish and can consist of anything ranging from a few olives, a piece of cheese, or something such as a stew,
In various regions of Spain it is often included in the price of drinks, such as beer and wine.
In this case, the tapas also included foods from Greece, Latin America and dishes from the Persian region of the Middle East.
Most of the food was donated from different professors, who March said are good cooks.
“We stretched the meaning of what a tapas is to include different international foods,” March said. “There were a few people I asked directly because they had reputations of being good cooks, and I also knew there are some who are generous when it comes to helping about the library.”
The list of those invited was drawn from the Friends of Fogler Library group, a mailing list consisting of donors and supporters.
Besides the mailing list, people were also invited through FirstClass.
Gfeller also admitted that because she and March have been on campus for a while, they have constructed a network of people to solicit for donations.
“We as the faculty ask the library to do more, and we realize they can only do so much,” March said.
“We know how important Fogler is to the University of Maine and there is no other way to look at it. There is no other way to put it.”
