January's Middletown book discussion group title: The Known World

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, January 21 to discuss Edward P. Jones' The Known World.  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):  

"Henry Townsend [is] a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order and chaos ensues."

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

"Belle Grove Plantation" by Cassandra Dowd is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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

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 201 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: 

• Why are we yelling? : the art of productive disagreement / Buster Benson
• The ethics of hospitality : an interfaith response to US immigration policies / Helen T. Boursier
• Fragile nation, shattered land : the modern history of Syria / James A. Reilly
• The fire is upon us : James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the debate over race in America / Nicholas Buccola
• She came to slay : the life and times of Harriet Tubman / Erica Armstrong Dunbar
• Unbound : how inequality constricts our economy and what we can do about it / Heather Boushey
• Solitary non-employed persons : empirical research on hikikomori in Japan / Yuji Genda
• Testosterone : an unauthorized biography / Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, Katrina Karkazis

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!

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, December 9th and lasting through Friday, December 13th. 

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!

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