Gardner-Harvey Library Middmester Newsletter: An eclipse, words of encouragement, and a look at what is ahead

 

Feeling "taxed" on this Monday tax day? The library has you covered with information about our upcoming events, a look at Hollywood in Ohio, and a bit of joy for your spring semester. All in the Gardner-Harvey Library Middmester newsletter.

New books (and more) added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in March!

 

We add many new items to the collection each month, and we hope you'll check some out. Take a look at our New Books shelves or the New Media Display to help guide you to titles, or at our selection of movies that were filmed in our area (shown above)!  You may also skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in March!  

We added 89 books, e-books, DVDs, and other items during that time, thanks to your selections and suggestions. The list can be sorted by call number, area of our collection, or by title. There is definitely something here for everyone!

Here are ten titles from the list, to give you an idea of what we've been buying: 

• The double shift : Spinoza and Marx on the politics of work / Jason Read
• To have and have not : energy in world history / Brian C. Black
• Beautiful people : my thirteen truths about disability / Melissa Blake
• Leadership from bad to worse : what happens when bad festers / Barbara Kellerman
• Leading from the margins : college leadership from unexpected places / Mary Dana Hinton
• Language city : the fight to preserve endangered mother tongues in New York / Ross Perlin
• Until August / Gabriel García Márquez
• Shakespeare's sisters : how women wrote the Renaissance / Ramie Targoff
• The hunter : a novel / Tana French
• Our moon : how Earth's celestial companion transformed the planet, guided evolution, and made us who we are / Rebecca Boyle

This tag will show you all of the prior lists of new materials, in reverse chronological order. We are eager to hear from you about individual items you would like us to buy, or types of items we should be on the look out for, or general subject areas we should build up in the collection.

If you have a suggestion of something to order, please use our "Tell GHL to Buy It" form, email Alan Kelley (kelleya@miamioh.edu), or drop by the library with your request. And pass your general suggestions or comments about the collection to us in those same ways. 

If you know some titles we should add, we have acquisitions funds available.  We look forward to your suggestions of items to add to the collection!  

Join us for April Events at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

The Gardner-Harvey Library staff would like to take this time to invite you to participate in our April events!  If you have any questions about them, please let us know. Additional information on the events is available (and will be updated) in our Events Calendar.  Everyone is welcome to attend!

TEC Lab: Design Your Own Vinyl Stickers

Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 2-4pm

Have you ever wanted to design your own vinyl sticker? Now is your opportunity to create one with our Silhouette Cameo cutting Machine. Make a sticker for your car, laptop, window, or bike! Join us in the TEC Lab (room 125) from 2-4 PM.

 

Diversity Book Discussion - Author Visit: Nyama McCarthy-Brown and "Skin Colored Pointes"

Thursday, April 4, 2024 at noon

Join representatives from Miami Regionals Libraries and the Center of Diversity, Equality, and inclusion in an exploration of literature that embraces diversity in a variety of subject matters. Meeting in JHN 100 face-to-face, and via Zoom at noon!

 

Animals You Know of But Not About: Mollusca

Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 4pm,

Al Cady, professor of Biological Sciences at Miami University Regionals, will take us on a journey through the inner workings of common but largely unknown animals. Join us in the SPACE (room 014) and on Zoom at 4pm. 

Underground Academy: There is no AWAY!

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 4pm

Throwing that away is not a real thing. Join our Underground Academy as Janelle Allen, a visiting faculty member in Biological Sciences, helps us learn how there truly is no way to dispose of things and stuff. Join us in the SPACE (room 014) and on Zoom at 4 PM for this undercover story of composition, decomposition, and nutrient acquisition. Discover how we can be better stewards of our stuff to impact our human health and well-being. 

Discussion of Aldo Leopold’s “The Land Ethic”

Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 12-1pm

“When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” What is the relationship between people and the land? What responsibility, if any, do people have to their communities? How can we “use” the land with love and respect? Join us for discussion from 12 -1 PM in the TEC SPACE or on Zoom. 

National Park Talk: Crown Point State Historic Site/ Fort St. Fredric

Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 4:30pm

Tammie L. Gerke, teaching professor in Geology at Miami University, will share the geology, archeology, history, and other interesting information as we trek across the United States. Talks will include visits to the southwest, upstate New York, and the Midwest as we look at the new Ohio UNESCO sites. Get your questions answered and participate in a lively discussion on these national treasures on Zoom and in the SPACE (room 014) at 4:30 PM. 

DEI Book Club - "Skin Colored Pointes: Interviews with Women of Color in Ballet"

Tuesday, April 30, 2024, noon 

Join representatives from Miami Regionals Libraries and the Center of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion in an exploration of literature that embraces diversity in a variety of subject matters. Meeting in JHN 100 face-to-face, and via Zoom at noon!

Discussion of Aldo Leopold’s “The Land Ethic” (April 24)

“When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” - Aldo Leopold

What is the relationship between people and the land? What responsibility, if any, do people have to their communities? How can we "use" the land with love and respect?

 
Join us on Wednesday, April 24 for a discussion of Aldo Leopold's "A Land Ethic" (1949). This piece appears as the last work in Leopold's seminal book, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There. There are a variety of editions and printings of the book held by Miami University Libraries that you may request.

If you need a copy of the essay, please contact Marianne Cotugno, who will host the discussion.

The discussion, with snacks, will be held from 12 -1 PM in the Gardner-Harvey Library's TEC SPACE (GRD 014) or on Zoom.

April's Middletown Book for Discussion: Tom Lake (April 19)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, April 19.  Our title is Ann Patchett's Tom Lake.  Here is a brief summary:

"In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, and Kindle available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  In addition to discussing Absolution, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their March 22 meeting:

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

The Wind Knows my Name by Isabel Allende

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury by Drew Gilpin Faust

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini

The New Look (series on Apple TV+)

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende

Revenge, Yoko Ogawa

Hey, Kiddo, Jarret J. Krosoczka

We will meet at 12 pm on the 19th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  979425

‬Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom information) 

Please come along to our discussion to share what you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing!

If you're looking for something interesting to read, check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

John

"Actors on stage, 1973" by Seattle Municipal Archives is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Survey participation - Regional students and AI use

What AI tools have you heard about or used? Do you think AI tools are beneficial or a waste of time? We are conducting a survey on how Regionals students use AI tools.

The purpose of this research is to examine how Regional campus students are using artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, and what they would like to learn to improve their use. This study is being conducted by researchers from the Regional campus libraries of Miami University. Invitations to complete this online survey have been sent by email to approximately 4000 people. In addition, open invitations have been posted on social networking sites such as Instagram and Facebook. Participation in this research is restricted to persons 18 years of age or older. The survey will close on March 22.

Completing the survey should take about 10 minutes. Your participation is voluntary, you may skip questions you do not want to answer, and you may stop at any time. The survey does not request information that would explicitly identify you. If you inadvertently include identifying information, such information will be removed from stored data. Only the researchers will have access to individual responses. Results of the survey will only be presented publicly as aggregate summaries.

As a thank you for completing the survey, you may also enter to win one of five $20 gift cards. The research survey and the contact information form will not be linked therefore the research data will remain as anonymous as you provided it.  

Follow this link to the survey:

Take the survey

Or copy and paste the URL below into your browser:

https://miamioh.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_430CyWpdNyWbQnI

If you have any questions about this research or you feel you need more information to complete this survey, you can contact the lead researcher at burkejj@miamioh.edu.
 
The Miami University Research Ethics & Integrity Program reviewed and approved this study (04809e). If you have questions or concerns about the rights of research subjects, you may contact our reviewing body: the Research Ethics and Integrity Office at Miami University at (513) 529-3600 or humansubjects@miamioh.edu. 
 
Thank you for your participation!

John Burke
Jessie Long

John J. Burke, MSLS, '23 MAIDT, [he, him, his], Library Director & Principal Librarian 

Gardner-Harvey Library, Miami University Regionals, Middletown, OH 45042

burkejj@miamioh.edu | 513-727-3293 | https://miamioh.edu/burkejj

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Sign up today for our Diversity Book Discussion: Hey, Kiddo! (March 19)

Join us for our March discussion where we will be reading Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka. We will meet on Tuesday, March 19th, from 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, and our discussion will be led by Dr. Katie Kickel.

The discussion will be simulcast to both locations of the Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (100 Johnston Hall at Middletown and 114 Rentschler Hall at Hamilton) for attendees who would like to meet face-to-face. You will also be able to attend via Zoom.

Below is a brief synopsis of the book:

In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along.Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's going on. Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family, reckoning with his mother and tracking down his father. Hey, Kiddo is a profoundly important memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction, and finding the art that helps you survive.

Please use our LinkTree to sign up so we will know if you're coming to one of the Centers or if you'll join us on Zoom. You can also tell us how you'd like to receive your free copy of the book (while supplies last, limited quantities). 

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors:

John Burke, Director, Gardner-Harvey Library

Krista McDonald, Director, Rentschler Library

Bennyce Hamilton, Director, Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We cannot wait for our excellent book discussion!