Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Gardner-Harvey Library Hours for Winter Break and Winter Term

Just to make sure everyone is aware . . .

The Gardner-Harvey Library will be following the hours listed below between December 16, 2017 and January 28. 2018.  Find daily library hours for GHL and other libraries at Miami University.

We wish everyone happy holidays and an enjoyable break!

Winter Break Hours - December 16, 2017 to January 1, 2018

Saturday & Sunday, Dec. 16-17Closed
Monday-Friday, Dec. 18-228:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Saturday, Dec. 23rd to Monday, January 1stClosed

Winter Term 2018 Hours - January 2 to January 28:


Monday8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Tuesday8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Wednesday8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Thursday8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Friday8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
The library will be closed on January 15 (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

Thursday, December 07, 2017

Free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, lemonade, and mints at the Library for Finals Week!



The Library will offer free coffee, tea, hot cocoa, lemonade, and mints all during finals week, starting on Saturday, December 9th, and lasting through Friday, December 15th. It will be set up in our entrance area from roughly 12:00pm to 4:00pm on Saturday, 8:00am to 8:00pm, Monday through Thursday, and from 8:00am to 5:00pm on Friday. Please drop on by and enjoy a cup!

It's our way of making your last minute studying and paper/project preparation a bit more relaxing.  Come grab a study room or a comfortable spot to study, get a beverage, and get your last-minute learning in. Thanks for being a part of our library community!


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

Wednesday, December 06, 2017

Middletown book discussion title for January

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Thursday, January 4 to discuss Sarah Dunant's Sacred Hearts.  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 year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core."


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.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

Tuesday, December 05, 2017

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

See our new materials list of items we added to the collection in November! We added 229 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.

Here are eight titles from the list, to give you an idea of what we've been buying:
  • Understanding everyday incivility : why are they so rude? / Shelley D. Lane
  • Teaching history with science fiction films / A. Bowdoin Van Riper
  • Citizens but not Americans : race and belonging among Latino millennials / Nilda Flores-González
  • Disasters in field research : preparing for and coping with unexpected events / Gillian H. Ice, Darna L. Dufour, and Nancy J. Stevens
  • The crisis of the middle class constitution : why economic inequality threatens our Republic / Ganesh Sitaraman
  • Veiled superheroes : Islam, feminism, and popular culture / Sophia Rose Arjana
  • Nigerians in space : a novel / by Deji Bryce Olukotun
  • To Siri with love : a mother, her autistic son, and the kindness of machines / Judith Newman
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.

This month we're adding some new materials along with replacements for items that have gone missing from the collection (and those that patrons have chosen to replace). 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!




Library Open on the Saturday Before Finals (Dec. 9) at Middletown!



To help you prepare for final exams, the Gardner-Harvey Library will offer extra study hours to students on Saturday, December 9, 2017. We will be open from Noon until 4:00pm that day.

If you need a quiet place to study, please come to the library and use our computers and our study rooms. Staff will be on hand to provide assistance.

Coffee, tea, hot chocolate, lemonade, and mints will be available to help you stay aware and awake.