November events at Gardner-Harvey Library!

We hope you will join us for one or more of our events happening in November at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

The Underground Academy Presents: The Truth About Trees Series

Your Guide to Special Trees on the Hamilton Campus Wednesday, Nov. 5 | 4 p.m. | Gardner Harvey Library, TEC Space | Middletown | Zoom and In-person Biology faculty member Janelle Allen knows trees, and she wants to share that knowledge with you. Learn about the importance of trees in our world and the unique examples we have in our campus ecosystems. MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries | BurkeJJ@MiamiOH.edu

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National Parks: Book Discussion: “Death and Life of the Great Lakes"

Book Discussion: “Death and Life of the Great Lakes" Talk Series Tuesday, Nov. 18 | 4:30 p.m. | Zoom Only Geologist Tammie L. Gerke will share presentations and lead discussions about geology and related topics. Get your questions answered and participate in lively discussions in three events this semester. Join us as Tammie L. Gerke leads a book discussion of “Death and Life of the Great Lakes,” by Dan Egan. Get your geology questions answered and participate in a lively discussion. Request a copy of “Death and Life of the Great Lakes." MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries | BurkeJJ@MiamiOH.edu

Visit for Zoom Link You Can Make It @ the TEC Lab Makerspace! Laser Engraved Spoons and Cutting Boards Thursday, Nov. 20 | Noon Gardner-Harvey Library, TEC Lab | Middletown Give the Makerspace a try and see what wonderful creations you can make and take home. Drop in at any point between noon and 2 p.m. to start making. Join us in the TEC Lab as we use our laser engravers to make custom spoons, cutting boards, and more. We'll demonstrate how our three laser cutters/engravers can add text and images to wood, acrylic, and other materials. MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries | HicksJL2@MiamiOH.edu Book Discussion                   The Madstone By Elizabeth Crook                                                Friday, Nov. 21 | 11:30am-12:30pm                                                    Gardner-Harvey Library, room 123 or Zoom | Middletown Join library director John Burke to discuss the book The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook. MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries | burkejj@MiamiOH.edu Visit for Zoom Link

November's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Madstone (November 21)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, November 21.  Our title is The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook.  Here is a brief summary:

"Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger. When the man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down the vanished coach--and a mysterious fortune left aboard--Benjamin is drawn into a drama whose scope he could never have imagined, for they discover on reaching the coach that its passengers include Nell, a pregnant young woman, and her four-year-old son, Tot, who are fleeing Nell's brutal husband and his murderous brothers." (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book (well, this gets interesting):

• There are currently no copies at Miami or in OhioLINK, but I have ordered a copy for the Gardner-Harvey Library, and hope to have it arrive this week (please check with me if you need it).
  
• SearchOhio, allowing for lending among over 40 public library systems in Ohio, was supposed to be back in action yesterday, but is now delayed. If you have a card for MidPointe, Lane, or Cincinnati Public, you can find available copies through those systems. Germantown Public Library does not have a copy of their own, but they are part of the SEO (Serving Every Ohioan) Consortium, and there are 38 copies available from those libraries. And SearchOhio might hop into action in a few days, so check through your local public library for additional copies from around Ohio.
• 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 My Friends, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their October 24 meeting:

C-SPAN's America's Book Club (TV show and podcast)

Beartown and A Man Called Ove, Frederik Backman

Daniel Silva (author)

Susan Vineland (author)

All In Her Head, Elizabeth Komen

Carole King, Jane Eisner
How the Light Gets In, Louise Penny
The Mighty Red, Louise Erdrich

The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese

All the Colors of the Dark, Chris Whitaker

We will meet at 11:30 am on the 21st both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  151544

‬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

"Kalamazoo Stage Coach 1865" by FotoGuy 49057 is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Gardner-Harvey Library Middmester Newsletter!

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We have made it halfway through the fall semester! Check out our newsletter to learn about upcoming events, interesting spaces in the library, and tips to help you get the most out of your library!

October's Middletown Book for Discussion: My Friends (October 24)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, October 24.  Our title is My Friends by Fredrik Backman.  Here is a brief summary:

"Most people don't even notice them-three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it's just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an artist herself, knows otherwise and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. The closer she gets to the painting's birthplace, the more she feels compelled to unleash her own artistic spirit, but happy endings don't always take the form we expect in this fresh testament to the transformative power of friendship and art." (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There is an audio book available from Miami University Libraries or copies may be found by checking at your local public library (our statewide access to public libraries' collections, SearchOhio, will start up again in the middle of October for the participating public libraries but be down for OhioLINK users until the end of December to allow for technical upgrades).
  
• 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 This is Happiness, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their September 26 meeting:

Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, Mary Norris 

Two Truths and a Lie, Katrina Kittle

Morning in this Broken World, Katrina Kittle
Table for Two, Amor Towles
The Perfumist of Paris, Alka Joshi

The Underground Library, Jennifer Ryan

The Fireman, Joe Hill

Nosferatu, Joe Hill

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King

Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf

The White Ladder, Daniel Light

The Sentence, Louise Erdrich

Dictionary of Lost Words, Kristin Hannah

Broken Country, Clare Leslie Hall

Orbital, Samantha Harvey

When We Believed in Mermaids, Barbara O'Neal

Who is Government?, Michael Lewis

Original Sin, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson

We will meet at 11:30 pm on the 24th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  602336

‬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

"Couple sitting at the docks in Djurgården, Stockholm" by Tommie Hansen is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Middletown - October events in the library!

 Join the Gardner-Harvey Library for exciting events in October!

The Underground Academy Presents: The Truth About Trees

Your Guide to Special Trees on the Middletown Campus Oct. 1 | 4 p.m. | Gardner Harvey Library, 014 TEC Space, Middletown Campus | Zoom and In-person Biology faculty member Janelle Allen knows trees, and she wants to share that knowledge with you. Learn about the importance of trees in our world and the unique examples we have in our campus ecosystems. MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries | BurkeJJ@MiamiOH.edu

Visit for Zoom Link

You Can Make It @ the TEC Lab Makerspace!

Sip and Paint with Bob Ross Oct. 9 | Noon | Gardner-Harvey Library, 014 | Middletown Campus Give the Makerspace a try and see what wonderful creations you can make and take home. Drop in at any point between noon and 2 p.m. to start making. Join us in the TEC Space to paint your own masterpiece. The library will provide painting supplies and (non-alcoholic) drinks to enjoy. While we don’t have an artist on staff, we will be screening Bob Ross painting videos for participants to learn some new techniques. MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries | HicksJL2@MiamiOH.edu Leanna Renee Hieber: “America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction” Leanna Renee Hieber Oct. 16 | 6 p.m. | Verity Lodge | Middletown Campus Bestselling author, actress, and ghost tour guide Leanna Renee Hieber discusses how the classic tropes and atmosphere of Gothic literature affect how we tell ghost stories to this day. The premise of her newest nonfiction book with Kensington Books, co-authored with Andrea Janes, features haunted history that evokes the foreboding atmosphere, curses, domineering figures, and women in peril that pervade Gothic fiction, expectations that add to the staying power of weird history that is truly stranger than fiction. She’ll discuss her Ohio-based chapters on the powerful President Helen Peabody, who oversaw Miami’s adjoining Western College for Women in the 19th century and who haunts her old building to this day, in addition to other Ohio-based haunts full of personal experiences. MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries | BurkeJJ@MiamiOH.edu Fungi & Mushroom Foraging October 20th 12pm-1pm on Zoom MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries | BurkeJJ@MiamiOH.edu National Parks Formation of the Great Lakes Oct. 21 | 4:30 p.m. | Zoom Only Tammie L. Gerke, a teaching professor in Geology at Miami University, will share presentations and lead discussions about geology and related topics. Get your questions answered and participate in lively discussions in three events this semester. We will explore the impacts of glaciation on the formation of the Great Lakes. This will give us some background for the book we will be discussing in the November discussion: “Death and Life of the Great Lakes,” by Dan Egan. MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries | BurkeJJ@MiamiOH.edu Visit for Zoom Link Book Group- My Friends, Fredrik Backman                             October 24th 11:30am-12:30pm                            In person(GRD 123) or on Zoom MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries | BurkeJJ@MiamiOH.edu

Join us at GHL for these September events!

 Join us at the Gardner-Harvey Library in Middletown for our upcoming September events!

**NEW** Students! You can be entered in our drawing for 1 of 3 $25 Amazon gift cards this semester! You will get 1 entry for each event you attend!

Your AI Toolkit

Practical Strategies Creating and Identifying AI Images Wednesday, Sept. 10 | Noon Gardner-Harvey Library 111 | Middletown Zoom and In-person event Would you like to know how to put AI to work for you? These workshops will add to your skills and save you time and effort as you add AI to your team. Seize the future. From social media to the news to advertisements, AI images are everywhere. Join Jennifer Hicks, Garner-Harvey Library’s outreach and instruction librarian, to learn tips and tricks to help identify AI images. During the second half of the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to create their own AI images to get a better understanding of how they are made. MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries | BurkeJJ@MiamiOH.edu

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Your AI Toolkit

Practical Strategies Using AI in Your Research Wednesday, Sept. 17 | Noon Gardner-Harvey Library 111 | Middletown Zoom and In-person event Would you like to know how to put AI to work for you? These workshops will add to your skills and save you time and effort as you add AI to your team. Seize the future. There are ways to use the power of AI to ease your research journey. Generative AI tools can help with grammar and suggest ways to edit text, but they can also help you develop a topic and find search terms. Join John Burke, director of Garner-Harvey Library, to learn strategies for using AI tools as you research sources for papers and presentations.  MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries | BurkeJJ@MiamiOH.edu

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National Parks

Talk Series The Shifting of Tectonic Plates Through Geologic Time Tuesday, Sept. 23 | 4:30 p.m. Zoom Only Geologist Tammie L. Gerke will share presentations and lead discussions about geology and related topics. Get your questions answered and participate in lively discussions in three events this semester. Learn some basics about the development of the theory of plate tectonics, how plates move, and an overview of our current understanding of these processes. We will then travel through geologic time to explore how the surface of the Earth has looked once crust formed and how the continents moved to their current locations. MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries | BurkeJJ@MiamiOH.edu

Visit for Zoom Link Book group: Middletown Book Discussion: This is Happiness, Niall Williams September 26th, 11:30-12:30   GRD 123 Need help getting the book? Stop in to the library info desk for assistance!

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Passcode: 882493

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