Maine State Archives launches online catalog portal Thu, 03/11/2021 - 3:00pm AUGUSTA — The Maine State Archives has launched its first-ever catalog of its holdings, via the online ArchivesSpace portal at https://archives.maine.gov/. For the first time in the Maine State Archives' 56-year history, researchers can now search through the bureau’s listing of collections online to see if the Archives is the right resource for their purposes, before contacting an archivist to access the actual documents. "This is a first step, for the public to have an awareness of what we hold, and we will be building it into a public resource that will eventually link up with the actual digital copies of items such as documents and maps that we have posted to DigitalMaine at https://digitalmaine.com/arc_img/ ," said Katherine McBrien, Deputy Secretary for Archives, in a news release.