PINs are coming to your library account!
Minerva Libraries will soon begin using 4-digit PINs to help protect your library account and prepare for future system software updates. This change affects all Minerva patrons.
What Is Changing?
How you log in to your online library account. You will use a 4-digit PIN along with your library card number to log in to your online library account when you want to place holds, manage your checkouts, etc.
When Does This Start?
March 17, 2026
Where Will I Use My PIN?
Online at minerva.maine.edu if you want to log in to your library account or request items.
Why Is This Happening?
PINs are required for upcoming system upgrades to our catalog software. PINs are commonly used in libraries nationwide and add security to your personal information.
Do I need my PIN to use databases or ebooks?
Not yet
Set up your PIN online:
Beginning March 17, a new link will appear on the “My Library Account” login page:
Create/Reset PIN
Click “Create/Reset PIN” and follow the prompts. You will need an email address to set up your PIN online.
No email? Set up your PIN @ your library:
To continue placing requests in the online catalog ask a Librarian to add 4 digits of your choice to your record.
Please note: Librarians cannot see your PIN once it is set, so they cannot retrieve this information for you if you forget it. They can only reset a new PIN of your choice.
Wednesday, March 18 at 6 p.m.
Dismantling Democracy examines how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power in Germany and, once in office, systematically and legally undermined democratic institutions. Drawing on primary sources and grounded in historical context, the program offers an extreme yet deeply instructive case study of Germany’s descent into dictatorship. While we often think of democracy as permanent and secure, history reminds us of its inherent fragility.
Tam Huynh, the Executive Director of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, will take you through these 53 days in vivid detail. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
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Thursday, March 19 at 6 p.m.
Join one of Blue Ocean Society’s marine educators will to learn about how marine debris travels through an ecosystem and why we must keep our beaches clean.
The ocean may look vast and blue, but hidden challenges threaten its health. Warming waters and human impacts such as pollution, noise, entanglement, and vessel strikes endanger the Gulf of Maine and its marine life.
Since the late 1990s, we have focused our research on Jeffreys Ledge, a rich but understudied habitat located just 20 miles off the NH/MA coast. This unique area supports an incredible diversity of marine species, including endangered whales.