June's Middletown book discussion title: The Arrangement

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, June 25 to discuss Sarah Dunn's The Arrangement.  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):  

"A progressive New York couple with an autistic son move to a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb and immerse themselves in the local community only to have their bond tested by an invitation to become an open-marriage couple."  

Miami 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

"View of the Hudson Valley from the Vanderbilt Mansion"by mava is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and mints at the Middletown Library during Finals Week!

The Library will offer free coffee, tea, hot cocoa, and mints all during finals week, starting on Monday, May 13th and lasting through Friday, May 17th. 

It will be set up in our entrance area from 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. 

We wish you well on your finals!  You got this!

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.

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

We are adding many new items to the collection each month, and making sure that you can see them on display! Take a look at our New Books shelves or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in April! We added 234 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 joy of missing out : the art of self-restraint in an age of excess / Svend Brinkmann
• Gods and robots : myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology / Adrienne Mayor
• China and the Islamic world : how the new Silk Road is transforming global politics / Robert R. Bianchi
• Sea people : the puzzle of Polynesia / Christina Thompson
• Stony the road : reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow / Henry Louis Gates, Jr
• Advice for future corpses * and those who love them : a practical perspective on death and dying / Sallie Tisdale
• Natural law today : the present state of the perennial philosophy / edited by Christopher Wolfe and Steven Brust
• Dying of whiteness : how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland / Jonathan M. Metzl

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 look out for, or general subject areas we should build up in the collection.

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.  There is still time (and money) available to add materials in this fiscal year.

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

Libraries & Mental Health

Have you seen The Public, a movie about homelessness, set in Cincinnati, Ohio? 

Today some urban libraries are hiring social workers to address the needs of homelessness and  mental illness.  Libraries are public institutions that are open to all.  Library staff are serving on the front line, even as many other institutions have closed their doors.  Perhaps community-based health services or partnerships with organizations willing to help would lighten the load for many?

Sometimes serving the public takes a toll on librarians.  Here is one librarian's reflections on her experience as compared with the movie.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month.

Celebrating the 3 P’s: Publications, Presentations, and Performances / Research Reception at Gardner-Harvey Library

Celebrating the 3 P’s: Publications, Presentations, and Performances

Research Reception

Gardner-Harvey Library

Wednesday, May  8th

2:30 – 4 pm

Come out and celebrate the fine research that our faculty and staff have completed!

Light refreshments will be provided.

In preparation for our reception, we want to know what you have been researching, writing, and speaking about. Let us know what journal articles, books, conference papers, artwork, and more you have published within the last 2—3 years.  Please fill out our publication form  (https://forms.gle/nYQkjeD37a6hpgP69) with a brief description and citation for your work.

-- 

Jessie Long, MLIS 

Public Services Librarian & Associate Librarian 

Geology poster sessions at the Gardner-Harvey Library (Middletown)

Join us next week as students from two Geology courses display and discuss the posters they created!

GLG 121 students will present their posters on Tuesday, May 7th from 4:30-7:00pm.  Their topics focus on environmental geology issues.

GLG 244 students will present their posters on Wednesday, May 8th from 1:30-3:00pm.  Their topics focus on issues impacting the world's oceans.

Please take a few minutes to stop by and learn from these impressive student efforts.