Friday, March 07, 2025

She's Crazy Musical - Join Us in person or Zoom! (March 11)


The Miami Regionals Health and Wellness Steering Committee is proud to be hosting a fabulous musical called "She's Crazy" through a Rise and Thrive grant. This is a live Zoom event, and students, staff, and faculty are all welcome. 


The first event is this Tuesday, 3/11, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and we are hosting WATCH parties on both campuses! Please take a look at the image for details (the watch party for Middletown is in the TEC SPACE (GRD 014) at the Gardner-Harvey Library and the Hamilton locations are in Schwarm Hall (Dining Area) and Rentschler Hall in the SEE Suite (1st floor).




Monday, March 03, 2025

March's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Queen of Fives (March 28)

Street view in London around 1900.


The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, March 28.  Our title is The Queen of Fives by Alex Hay. Here is a brief summary:

"A master con woman in 1898 London, Quinn le Blanc has just five days to impersonate a wealthy heiress and ensnare a duke into marriage, but as she infiltrates the high society of the Kendal family, she discovers that deception and hidden motives run on all sides."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:
  • There are several copies available in 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 Intermezzo, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their February 28 meeting:

Seduced by the Light: the Mina Miller Edison Story, Alexandria Rimer
Founding Gardeners: the Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation, Andrea Wulf
Basin and Range, John McPhee
The Frozen River, Ariel Lawhorn
A Midwife's Tale: the Life of Martha Ballard, Laura Ulrich
Storming Heaven, Denise Giardina
Brotherless Night, V. V. Ganeshananthan
Precipice, Robert Harris
The Margot Affair, Sanae Lemoine
We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood, Dani McClain
The Chestnut Man, Soren Sveistrup
Sweet Bean Paste, Durian Sukegawa
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, Elif Batuman

We will meet at 12 pm on the 28th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Passcode:  598698
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

"London" by Tekniska museet is licensed under CC BY 2.0.


Thursday, February 20, 2025

Join us for these March events at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

Mark your calendar for these great events happening this March at the Gardner-Harvey Library!





Build a Terrarium
Wednesday, March 5th, 12-2pm - GRD 014 TEC SPACE
Live plants, fake plants, rocks, miniatures, all can be used to build your own terrarium. Join us in the library and create your own miniature world. You must RSVP by March 3 to take part in the workshop. Email hicksjl2@miamioh.edu to RSVP. Because of the space and supplies required, only ten spots will be available to make terrariums. If you have any glassware or small items you would like to use with your terrarium, please feel free to bring them along.






Garden Stakes
Wednesday, March 5th, 2:00-4:00pm - GRD 125 TEC Lab
Getting ready to garden? Our laser cutters/engravers can help you create labeled stakes to place in your garden to identify what you’ve planted. No green thumb? Come along to engrave something fun on a coaster. 




Underground Academy: Recycling
Wednesday, March 5th, 4:00pm - GRD 014 TEC SPACE and Zoom

Biology faculty member Janelle Allen will share what happens to waste in our region and how we can partner in our community to reduce our waste footprint and increase human health and the health of our ecosystem. Held in the TEC Space or on Zoom







Know Your Body! - Defense and Your Immune System
Wednesday, March 12, 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm - Zoom
Al Cady, professor of Biological Sciences at Miami University Regionals, will take us on a journey through the inner workings of the human body. Get your biology questions answered as Cady shares the secrets of our insides! Held only on Zoom 




National Parks Talks: Death Valley National Park
Tuesday, March 18, 4:30pm to 6:00pm - Zoom
Tammie L. Gerke, teaching professor in Geology at Miami University, introduces attendees to the geology of a national park. Get your geology questions answered and participate in lively discussions! Held only on Zoom 

Monday, February 10, 2025

Join us for these February events at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

Mark your calendar for these great events happening this February at the Gardner-Harvey Library!



A photo of a human hand (right hand).


Know Your Body: Get Under Your Skin
Wednesday, February 12th, 4:30-5:30pm
Al Cady, professor of Biological Sciences at Miami University Regionals, will take us on a journey through the inner workings of the human body. Get your biology questions answered as Cady shares the secrets of our insides! Held on Zoom.



An image of a road moving off into the distance of a dry grassland, leading up to a mountain.


National Park Talk: Discussion of "Basin and Range" by John McPhee
Tuesday, February 18th, 4:30pm
Tammie L. Gerke, teaching professor in Geology at Miami University, leads a book
discussion on geology topics. Get your geology questions answered and participate in lively discussions! Held on Zoom. Need a copy of “Basin and Range”? Contact the Gardner-Harvey Library staff.




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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Spring happenings at the Gardner-Harvey Library (Middletown ) - Read our Newsletter!

Cover of the GHL spring 2025 Newsletter

Welcome back for the spring semester! Check out some of our library events, services and more in the Spring 2025 GHL newsletter!

Welcome Back Pop-Up Making and Textbooks for Free at the Gardner-Harvey Library (Middletown)

Image of flyer for this event, with all text in the post below.


Join us for Pop-Up Making at the Gardner-Harvey Library this week, on Tuesday (Jan. 28) and Wednesday (Jan. 29) and take home a free handmade item you'll make with the magic of sublimation. You may drop in the library any time between 10am and 4pm on the 28th and 29th.

Did you know you can borrow Textbooks for Free from the Gardner-Harvey Library? Our Textbook on Reserve program offers copies of textbooks for the following courses.

Most textbooks are available for 1 day check-outs. Don't see your class? Stop by or contact the library, we can also help you find free options for your other textbooks! Instructors: do you wish us to have a copy of your textbook in our reserve collection? Let us know the course and textbook.

What else can you find at GHL?

  • Study rooms 
  • Free coffee, tea, & snacks(Please limit to 2 snacks per day) 
  • The Lounge @GHL 
  • TEC Lab and TEC SPACE Makerspaces 
  • Laptops (1 week check-out) 
  • Research assistance 
  • Professor talks & workshops 
  • Book groups 
  • Play tunes on our keyboard 
  • & More

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Schedule library instruction for Spring 2025

We hope you all have had a warm and restful winter break. We are reaching out today to remind and encourage you to schedule your library instruction for the upcoming semester 🎉


Recently, we have noticed a greater need for library instruction and support from our student body. Whether students weren't taught formal researching skills in their high school, they are our ECA students who are finishing out their high school experiences at Miami, or they just aren't confident navigating our current information landscape (use of AI, mis/disinformation, etc.), students need assistance learning the ins and outs of academic researching. 


We strongly encourage instructors with research assignments in their syllabi this semester to work with us in the Regional Campus Libraries. Together, we can ensure that your students receive the support they need as they learn about conducting academic research for the first time or need help strengthening these skills. 


When you contact us here at the libraries, we will work with you to determine what services would best meet your course needs. We offer in-class instruction, virtual instruction, and embedded instruction to both in-person and online classes. We also have research guides that can be added to your Canvas courses that walk students through the library resources that are best suited to complete your research assignments. There are many ways that we can assist you and your students and more information about these services can be found on our website: Rentschler Library - Services for Faculty. or for Middletown: Faculty Services (Middletown): Teaching & Classroom Support.


If you are ready to schedule an instruction session for a class at the Hamilton campus, you can fill out a Library Instruction Request form or contact Mark Shores at Mark.Shores@miamiOH.edu. If you want to schedule a session for a class at the Middletown campus, reach out to John Burke at burkejj@miamiOH.edu.


We appreciate your time and look forward to collaborating with you for a great spring semester. 


Friday, January 03, 2025

February's Middletown Book for Discussion: Intermezzo (February 28)

 

The romantic couple, Dublin, Ireland

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, February 28.  Our title is Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. Here is a brief summary:

"Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties -- successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude -- a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:
  • There are several copies available in MiamiOhioLINK, 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 An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their January 3 meeting:

The Six Triple Eight (Netflix)
Thelma (Hulu)
How the Penguins Saved Veronica, Hazel Prior
The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle, Joanne Huist Smith
Texas, James Michener
Ragnar Jonasson (Icelandic crime writer)
The Paris Novel, Ruth Reichl
Revenge of the Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
Atomic Habits, James Clear
The Gap and The Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success, Dan Sullivan
Light Pirate, Lily Brooks-Dalton
In Ascension, Martin MacInnes
Shoplifters (Peacock)

We will meet at 12 pm on the 28th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Passcode:  276688
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