Isle Royale: Dr. Tammie Gerke's National Parks Talks

Join us as Dr. Gerke talks about Isle Royale National Park. She will discuss the geology and other interesting information about the park.

This session will run Tuesday, March 16th from 4:45pm to 6:15pm with time for questions and discussion. The event will be held as a free online meeting. Add this event to your Google calendar!  

When it is time for the event, use the link below to join the presentation:

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All are welcome to attend!

"View from Lookout Louise, Isle Royale National Park, Rock Harbor, Michigan" by Corvair Owner is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 

March's Middletown Book for Discussion on Zoom: The Grapes of Wrath

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The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, March 30.  Our title is John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of environmental disaster and economic ruin:

"The epic story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  All of our statewide delivery services are up and running.  We do have our curbside pickup operating as well as in-house pickup.
  
• Amazon has the paperback, Kindle, and audiobook available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  On February 23rd, the members of the group also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• The Women of Copper Country, Mary Doria Russell
• The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
• One Size Fits None, Stephanie Anderson
• Devolution, Max Brooks
• Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
• The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd
• The Survivors, Jane Harper 
• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison
• The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah (which led us to read the Grapes of Wrath this time)
• The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu
• Blindness, Jose Saramago
• Tokyo Ueno Station, Yu Miri
• The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante

We will meet at 12 pm on the 30th in Zoom at 

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You may also join by calling +1 253-215-8782‬

Passcode: 893374
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Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom and calling information)

Please come along to our discussion to share what you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing!

If you're looking for something interesting to read, check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

"dustbowl" by abbyinokc is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

How to Make Sure You Have Good Information

How can you be sure that the information you find through Google or the library is going to be useful for your assignment? 

Use the SIFT steps in the following link (Stop, Investigate, Find, Trace) or the image below to make sure your source is on track.  You can also consult our Avoiding Bad or Fake News guide.

SIFT was featured in a New York Times column today, if you'd like to get some further background on the concept.

*Design layout for SIFT based on shared image from the University of Oregon

"sifting screen, back" by vrogy is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Rescheduled: Join us on Zoom on Feb. 23rd for Death Valley with Dr. Tammie Gerke!

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have rescheduled our National Parks talk. The below information has been updated for the new event date (2/23/21):

Join us as Dr. Gerke talks about Death Valley National Park. She will discuss the geology and other interesting information about the park.

This session will be held on Tuesday, February 23rd from 4:45pm to 6:15pm with time for questions and discussion. The event will be held as a free online meeting. Add this event to your Google calendar!

When it is time for the event, use the link below to join the presentation:

Join Zoom Meeting https://miamioh.zoom.us/j/84534092333?pwd=ZVJuTHZKOXhwS1BKQlFwbUhIRFpXUT09

All are welcome to attend.

"Death Valley" by peretzp is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Join us on Zoom this Tuesday for Death Valley with Dr. Tammie Gerke!

Join us as Dr. Gerke talks about Death Valley National Park. She will discuss the geology and other interesting information about the park.

This session will run Tuesday, February 16th from 4:45pm to 6:15pm with time for questions and discussion. The event will be held as a free online meeting.  Add this event to your Google calendar!  

When it is time for the event, use the link below to join the presentation:

Join Zoom Meeting https://miamioh.zoom.us/j/84534092333?pwd=ZVJuTHZKOXhwS1BKQlFwbUhIRFpXUT09

All are welcome to attend.

"Death Valley" by peretzp is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

New books (and more) added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in December and January!

 

If you've been thinking about reading a book, we have many new ones (plus a lot of older ones) ready to go!

Take a look at our New Books shelves or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection during December 2020 and January 2021! We added 112 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.  There is definitely something here for everyone!

Here are ten titles from the list, to give you an idea of what we've been buying: 

• Black futures / edited by Kimberly Drew + Jenna Wortham
• The Company : the rise and fall of the Hudson's Bay empire / Stephen R. Bown
• Vision or mirage : Saudi Arabia at the crossroads / David H. Rundell
• Virtual cities : an atlas & exploration of video game cities / Konstantinos Dimopoulos
• Recasting the vote : how women of color transformed the suffrage movement / Cathleen D. Cahill
• The Chicana/o/x dream : hope, resistance, and educational success / Gilberto Q. Conchas, Nancy Acevedo
• At night all blood is black / David Diop
• Fathoms : the world in the whale / Rebecca Giggs
• Stranger faces / Namwali Serpell
• Maker literacies for academic libraries : integration into curriculum / edited by Katie Musick Peery

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!