October's Middletown Book for Discussion: Akin (Oct. 26)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, October 26.  Our title is Emma Donoghue's Akin.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of unexpected family discoveries:

"Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower who is days away from his first visit back to Nice since he was a child, bringing with him a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he receives a call from social services: Noah is the closest available relative of an eleven-year-old great-nephew he's never met, who urgently needs someone to look after him. Noah agrees to take Michael along on his trip. The two come to grasp the risks people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew. Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy, born two generations apart, who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together."  

Here is where you can find the book (note: our delivery service among Ohio libraries is still slow at the moment, but appears to be improving.  Fortunately, the movement of books within the Miami system or within an individual public library's system appears to be moving as fast as normal):

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• 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 September 28th the members of the group discussed Jane Eyre, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Akin, Emma Donoghue
• A Slow Fire Burning, Paula Hawkins
• The Fault in our Stars, John Green
• Marge Piercy's poetry
• Emily Dickinson's poetry
• The Ghosts of Eden Park, Karen Abbott
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• Muhammad Ali documentary by Ken Burns
• Roadrunner: a Film About Anthony Bourdain

We will meet at 12 pm on the 26th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

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

Passcode: 893374
‬

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

"Coastal Nice, France" by kevinpsiu is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Holograms and Lasers at the TEC Lab Makerspace! (Oct. 6)

Join us on Wednesday, October 6th for our TEC Lab workshop on holograms and lasers! You may stop in any time between 11am and 1pm, or between 4pm and 6pm to learn how to make items.

Check out our TEC Lab and all the equipment available to use. We will have materials and guidance ready for you to make items to take with you.  We'll show a way to record a video and then convert it into a hologram you can project from your phone.  We'll also show how you can engrave an image onto wood, clear plastic, or a coaster.

This workshop is free and open to the public.

The event will be held in the TEC Lab makerspace (Room 125) at the Gardner-Harvey Library on the MIddletown campus.

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National Parks Talks Series: Valles Caldera National Preserve

 

Valles Caldera National Preserve

Tuesday, September 21

4:45-6:15 p.m.

Gardner-Harvey Library SPACE (GRD 014) and on Zoom at https://miamioh.zoom.us/j/81368711757?pwd=K2MwMnVHMW41anBqYXo5VFBzQVpMZz09

Tammie L. Gerke, Associate Teaching Professor in Geology at Miami University will share the geology and other interesting information about each national park, monument, or preserve. Get your questions answered and participate in a lively discussion on these national treasures. Light refreshments will be provided.

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"East Fork of the Jemez River -- Valles Caldera National Preserve (NM) July 2013" by Ron Cogswell is licensed under CC BY 2.0

September 11, 2001: The Day That Changed the World poster exhibit at Gardner-Harvey Library

The Gardner-Harvey Library staff is excited to announce our participation in "September 11, 2001: The Day That Changed the World", a downloadable educational exhibition that presents the history of 9/11, its origins, and its ongoing implications through the personal stories of those who witnessed and survived the attacks. Told across 14 posters, this exhibition includes archival photographs and images of artifacts from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s permanent collection. It explores the consequences of terrorism on individual lives and communities at the local, national, and international levels, and encourages critical thinking about the legacies of 9/11.

The posters and some 9/11 related books from the library collection are on display on the main floor of the library.  We also have a whiteboard in place for participants to share how they will remember 9/11.  They are available for viewing at any time the library is open.  The exhibition will last through the end of September.

The poster exhibition was developed by the 9/11 Memorial & Museum and has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands Wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

For questions or more information on this Exhibition, please visit the 9/11 Memorial & Museum website or contact them at: press@911memorial.org

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

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 August! We added 151 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: 

• Get real : 49 challenges confronting higher education / William G. Tierney
• The art of the national parks / by Fifty-Nine Parks
• The sacred band : three hundred Theban lovers fighting to save Greek freedom / James Romm
• Pornography and public health / by Emily F. Rothman
• Death of a traveller : a counter investigation / Didier Fassin
• I live a life like yours : a memoir / Jan Grue
• The woman from Uruguay / Pedro Mairal
• Brotherhood / Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
• Playlist for the Apocalypse : poems / Rita Dove
• God, human, animal, machine : technology, metaphor, and the search for meaning / Meghan O'Gieblyn

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.

If you have a suggestion of something to order, please use our "Tell GHL to Buy It" form, email John Burke (burkejj@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!

September's Middletown Book for Discussion: Jane Eyre (Sept. 28)

 

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The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, September 28.  Our title is Charlotte Bronte's classic Jane Eyre.  Here is a brief summary of this mid-19th century novel, published by Bronte under the pen name "Currer Bell":

"The story of a plain and penniless orphan who accepts a job as governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret."  

Here is where you can find the book (note: our delivery service among Ohio libraries is extremely slow at the moment.  But, the movement of books within the Miami system or within an individual public library's system appears to be moving as fast as normal):

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• 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 August 31st the members of the group discussed The Paris Library, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
• The Fault in our Stars, John Green
• The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams 
• Fast Girls, Elise Hooper
• The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner
• Small Great Things, Jodi Picoult
• Women in Sunlight, Frances Mayes
• Mountain Time, Ivan Doig
• The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
• Old in Art School, Nell Painter
  
• Beneficence, Meredith Hall
• A Very Punchable Face, Colin Jost
• The Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

We will meet at 12 pm on the 28th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

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

Passcode: 893374
‬

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

"jane eyre" by sonnetofthemoon is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0