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

Join us on the week after Thanksgiving as students from two Geology courses provide poster sessions and presentations.  Students will be presenting their work in the Library on both Monday, December 2 and Wednesday, December 4.  

GLG 141 students will display and present their posters from 10:05-11:25am.  Their posters focus on the geology of the National Parks.  They are already on display on the main floor of the library near the front entrance.

GLG 307 students will present  in the Library S.P.A.C.E. (GRD 014) from 1:15-2:35pm. Their presentations focus on geologically-informed approaches to providing safe drinking water for a community, based on a case study. 

Please join us (even for a few minutes) to learn from these impressive student efforts!

Gardner-Harvey Library “Finals Fantasy”: we're open the Saturday before Finals!

Step up your research game and join us on the Saturday before finals to get some last minute studies in. 

Join the library staff on Saturday, December 7 for extended library hours!

Get ready for Finals and finish up projects in a great location for studying!

Come to the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown Campus between 12 and 4pm to enjoy:

• Free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and lemonade
• 10 study rooms you may reserve
• Plenty of open study space
• Research assistance

This event is open to ALL Miami students.

"Finals Summer Semester 2" by pennstatenews is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

December's Middletown book discussion group title: Roughing It

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Monday, December 16 to discuss Mark Twain's Roughing It.  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):  

"Mark Twain tells of his years as a young tenderfoot adrift in the Wild West, mixing memoir, reporting, social satire, humorous anecdotes, and tall tales."

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

"sm0112GOLDPNT" by 49er Girl is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

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

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 October! We added 195 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: 

• None of your damn business : privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the digital age / Lawrence Cappello
• Unfollow : a memoir of loving and leaving the Westboro Baptist Church / Megan Phelps-Roper
• One day : the extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America / Gene Weingarten
• Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power / Pekka Hämäläinen
• The scrum fieldbook : a master class on accelerating performance, getting results, and defining the future / J.J. Sutherland
• Campuses of consent : sexual and social justice in higher education / Theresa A. Kulbaga, Leland G. Spencer
• A guide to transgender health : state-of-the-art information for gender-affirming people and their supporters / Rachel Ann Heath, PhD, and Katie Wynne, PhD, FRACP
• Future tense fiction : stories of tomorrow / edited by: Kirsten Berg [and five others]

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!