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Check out our Spring 2020 newsletter for a list of events, information on how to use our new VR equipment, and a short survey on what equipment you find most useful.

Join us for Game Night at the Middletown Library!

Come to Game Night to meet people and play some games!  We will have plenty of board games, card games, video games, and our Oculus Quest to choose from and snacks and drinks to energize the players.  

We'll meet Wednesday, February 12 from 5:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M. in the Library S.P.A.C.E. (Student Project Area & Campus Events) (GRD 014). Add this event to your Google Calendar!

The event is co-sponsored by Good Game Well Played (GGWP) and the Gardner-Harvey Library.  

Free coffee, tea, and hot chocolate at the Middletown Library during the first week of the semester!

The Library will offer free coffee, tea, and hot cocoa during during the first week of classes, starting on Monday, January 27th and lasting through Friday, January 31st. 

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 welcoming you to the campus this spring and making the start of the semester a bit more relaxing. 

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.

Dr. Tammie Gerke’s National Park Talks: Yellowstone (at Middletown)

For our first Park Talk of the spring, Dr. Gerke will review the geology and majestic views at Yellowstone National Park. 

Join us on Wednesday, February 19 at 4:45pm.  Add this event to your Google Calendar!

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.

"Approaching Yellowstone" by bgwashburn is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Open House at the TEC Lab Makerspace!

Tuesday, February 4  •  11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Gardner-Harvey Library

Middletown campus

Need a Valentine’s Day gift for someone special? The Library TEC Lab can help. 

Join us in the library makerspace to try your hand at woodburning or laser engraving your beloved’s name on a wooden heart, making a duct-tape rose, creating a special card or even a piece of jewelry! 

There will be an opportunity to sign the user agreement to operate the TEC Lab independently. Free event. No RSVP needed.  Add this event to your Google Calendar!

February's Middletown book discussion group title: Razor Girl

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Monday, February 24 to discuss Carl Hiassen's Razor Girl.  We will meet at 12 pm in Room 124 in the Library.   Add this event to your Google Calendar.

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):  

"When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an innocent accident is anything but. Behind the wheel of the offending car is Merry Mansfield -- nicknamed Razor Girl for her unique, eye-popping addition to what might be an otherwise unexciting scam."

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

"Key West" by bunnygoth is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

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

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 December! We added 150 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: 

• Revolution of values : reclaiming public faith for the common good / Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
• The hidden history of Burma : race, capitalism, and the crisis of democracy in the 21st century / Thant Myint-U
• Across the color line : reporting 25 years in Black Cincinnati / Mark Curnutte
• The revolution that wasn't : how digital activism favors conservatives / Jen Schradie
• They take our jobs! : and 20 other myths about immigration / Aviva Chomsky
• The factory / Hiroko Oyamada
• Ducks, Newburyport / Lucy Ellmann
• Hotbox : inside catering, the food world's riskiest business / Matt Lee and Ted Lee

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!