New books added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in March!

See our new materials list of items we added to the collection in March! We added 115 books, e-books, DVDs, and other items during that time, thanks to your selections and suggestions. The list is sorted by call number, with items grouped roughly by subject area.

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

• Shoot like a girl : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front / Mary Jennings Hegar
• The home that was our country : a memoir of Syria / Alia Malek
• Word by word : the secret life of dictionaries / Kory Stamper
• The professional actor's handbook : from casting call to curtain call / Julio Agustin
• Exit west : a novel / Mohsin Hamid
• Forensic history : crimes, frauds, and scandals / Elizabeth A. Murray
• Otherworlds : visions of our solar system / Michael Benson
• The death and life of the Great Lakes / Dan Egan

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 lookout for, or general subject areas we should build up in the collection. Your input will help us keep the collection working well as we add items during the remainder of the 2016/17 academic year  We're looking forward to what you'll recommend next!

If you have a suggestion of something to order, please use our "Tell GHL to Buy It" form, email Amy Carmichael (carmicae@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.

Thanks again for keeping our collection vibrant and your information needs met!

Middletown Book Discussion Title for April

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, April 25 to discuss Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show.  We will meet at 12 pm in Room 124 in the Library. 

Here is a brief summary of the title, along with links to request the book from Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries (Just click "Request" and choose "Miami University" from the dropdown list.  Then enter your UniqueID and password, and the library from which you would like to retrieve the item):  

"The youth of a small town in mid-twentieth-century Texas search for ways to escape boredom and experience life and love."

OhioLINK, and  SearchOhio 

Read the book (or read something else interesting), then come along to our discussion to share what else you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing, and help us plan our future readings.  

Have an idea for a book to discuss?  Let us know and check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.muohio.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

Laser Cut Items From Cork with Jenn Weinle at the TEC Lab!

The TEC Lab is happy to welcome Jenn Weinle for a laser cutter demonstration.  Jenn creates cork artwork for Retro Design Engraving, and is also a Miami University Regionals admissions counselor based on the Hamilton campus.

Join us on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 from 11am to 12pm, when Jenn will demonstrate creating a project on the laser cutter.  You will also have the chance to create your own set of coasters!

Just stop by the TEC Lab in Room 125 in the Gardner-Harvey Library. All are welcome to attend this free event.

Remember, if you attend two or more of our TEC Lab workshops and speaker events in Spring 2017, you will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire tablet.

Sewing Machines with Tammie Gerke at the TEC Lab!

Join us in the Gardner Harvey Library TEC Lab on Tuesday, April 11 to learn about using sewing machines from Miami’s very own Geology Professor Tammie Gerke.

There will be two one hour sessions, starting at 1:00 and then at 2:00pm, both in Room 124 in the library.  Do you have a sewing machine?  Bring it along and Dr. Gerke will help you stitch closed your learning gap!  

No machine? No problem!  We'll have the TEC Lab machine ready for you to practice on.next time you need to add a button or stitch a hole in your shirt, you will have the skills to save your clothing!

If you would like to learn specific techniques, or the just the basics of a sewing machine, Dr. Gerke has sweet skills she would love to share. Also feel free to bring an item you would like to repair.  It's sew easy!

All are welcome to attend.

Remember, if you attend two or more of our TEC Lab workshops and speaker events in Spring 2017, you will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire tablet.

The above image was provided through a Creative Commons CC-BY-2.0 license by Steffen Zahn.

Cut and Engrave Items with the Laser Cutter at the TEC Lab!

Have you ever used a laser cutter?  Now is your opportunity to see this amazing device in action.  A laser cutter can cut patterns or engrave images and text in wood, plastic, metal, fabric, and more!

On Wednesday, April 5, 2017, between 11am and 1pm, drop by the TEC Lab in Room 125 of the Gardner-Harvey Library to choose a design or image to cut and take home!  Engrave a photo!  Cut out a cool shape!

Come imagine what else you can make the laser cutter do for you.  All are welcome to attend this free event.

Remember, if you attend two or more of our TEC Lab workshops and speaker events in Spring 2017, you will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire tablet.

New books added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in February!

See our new materials list of items we added to the collection in February! We added 178 books, e-books, DVDs, and other items during that time, thanks to your selections and suggestions. The list is sorted by call number, with items grouped roughly by subject area.

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

• Age of anger : a history of the present / Pankaj Mishra
• Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world / Robert D. Kaplan
• Interfaith leadership : a primer / Eboo Patel
• Roadside picnic / Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• Autumn / Ali Smith
• Ritual structures in Chicana fiction / Helane Androne
• The usefulness of useless knowledge / Abraham Flexner
• Why we run : a natural history / Bernd Heinrich

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 lookout for, or general subject areas we should build up in the collection. Your input will help us keep the collection working well as we add items during the remainder of the 2016/17 academic year  We're looking forward to what you'll recommend next!

If you have a suggestion of something to order, please use our "Tell GHL to Buy It" form, email Amy Carmichael (carmicae@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.

Thanks again for keeping our collection vibrant and your information needs met!