November's Middletown book discussion group title: 1222

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The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Monday, November 18 to discuss Anne Holt's 1222.  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):  

"From Norway's bestselling crime writer comes a suspenseful locked-room mystery set in an isolated hotel where guests who are stranded during a monumental snowstorm begin turning up dead."

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 Train to Bergen"by Tostito Verde is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

TEC Tuesday: Make a Gift!

On this TEC Tuesday, make jewelry, custom cups, and so much more. Learn more about our TEC Lab while making some awesome gifts for you or someone you know.

This workshop is free and open to the public. 

Join us on December 3 at anytime between 11am-1pm in the TEC Lab makerspace (Room 125) at Gardner-Harvey Library.

"January/February 2017"by Multnomah County Library is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Dr. Tammie Gerke’s National Park Talks: Mammoth Cave and Carlsbad Caverns (at Middletown)

For our third Park Talk of the fall, Dr. Gerke will move underground for a review of Mammoth Cave and Carlsbad Caverns National Parks. 

Join us on Wednesday, November 20 at 4:45pm to learn about the geology and other interesting information about the parks.

The event will be held in the Library S.P.A.C.E. on the lower level of the Gardner-Harvey Library.

All are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.

"Mammoth Cave"by naturenps is licensed under CC PDM 1.0

Ghost Stories, Laser Cutters, and Surveys Galore in the Gardner-Harvey Library Newsletter

Gardner-Harvey Library has been hopping this fall with a variety of programs on national parks, a guest speaker who brought the spookiness to Verity Lodge, and TEC lab work with LASERS!  See what one student has done with our laser cutter and help the library learn more about what you have been up to this year in our Fall 2019 Middmester newsletter.

TEC Tuesday: Meet the laser engraver and cutter!

For this TEC Tuesday workshop, participants will learn how to use the laser cutter to cut shapes and engrave designs in wood, plastic, stamps, metal, fabric and more!   

Participants will be able to use their new knowledge to choose a design or image to cut and take home!  Engrave a photo!  Cut out a cool shape!  We hope you'll enjoy this experience and return to create other personalized items (stamps, engraved rolling pins, puzzles, etc.).

This workshop is free and open to the public. 

Join us on November 5 at anytime between 11am-1pm in the TEC Lab makerspace (Room 125) at Gardner-Harvey Library.

"Aaaaargh! Nautically Themed Laser Cut Scrabble" by Mark Simmons is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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

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 September! We added 249 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: 

• Hail Satan? [videorecording] / Magnolia Pictures presents in association with Hard Working Movies produced by Gabriel Sedgwick directed by Penny Lane
• The economists' hour : false prophets, free markets, and the fracture of society / Binyamin Appelbaum
• Belt and road : a Chinese world order / Bruno Maçães
• Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know / Malcolm Gladwell
• Guest house for young widows : among the women of ISIS / Azadeh Moaveni
• Litigation nation : a cultural history of lawsuits in America / Peter Charles Hoffer
• Fentanyl, Inc. : how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic / Ben Westhoff
• Meat planet : artificial flesh and the future of food / Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

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.

Thank you for all of your suggestions and requests!  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!