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

See our new materials list of items we added to the collection in May! We added 156 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:

• The great rift : literacy, numeracy, and the religion-science divide / Michael E. Hobart
• The epic city : the world on the streets of Calcutta / Kushanava Choudhury
• The age of American unreason in a culture of lies / Susan Jacoby
• Barracoon : the story of the last black cargo / Zora Neale Hurston
• 50 ways to get a job : an unconventional guide to finding work on your terms / Dev Aujla
• Women entrepreneurs and the myth of 'underperformance' : a new look at women's entrepreneurship research / edited by Shumaila Yousafzai
• I'll be gone in the dark : one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer / Michelle McNamara
• What school could be : insights and inspiration from teachers across America / Ted Dintersmith

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.

We still have FY18 collection funds available to add materials, so send us your requests.  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!

June's Middletown book discussion title: Little Fires Everywhere

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Wednesday, June 20 to discuss Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere.  We will meet at 12 pm in Room 124 in the Gardner-Harvey 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):  

"In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned -- from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren -- an enigmatic artist and single mother -- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town -- and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides."

Miami, 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.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

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

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

See our new materials list of items we added to the collection in April! We added 146 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:

• Ten thousand years of inequality : the archaeology of wealth differences / edited by Timothy A. Kohler and Michael E. Smith
• No turning back : life, loss, and hope in wartime Syria / Rania Abouzeid
• Robot-proof : higher education in the age of artificial intelligence / Joseph E. Aoun
• Most of 14th Street is gone : the Washington, DC riots of 1968 / J. Samuel Walker
• 50 ways to get a job : an unconventional guide to finding work on your terms / Dev Aujla
• And now we have everything : on motherhood before I was ready / Meaghan O'Connell
• Fight like a girl : the truth behind how female Marines are trained / Kate Germano with Kelly Kennedy
• Does it fart? : the definitive field guide to animal flatulence / Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti illustrated by Ethan Kocak

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!