November's Middletown Book for Discussion: A Lesson Before Dying (Nov. 23)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, November 23.  Our title is Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of unexpected family discoveries:

"A Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting—and defying—the expected."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• 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 October 26th the members of the group discussed Akin, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• A Slow Fire Burning, Paula Hawkins
  
• The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave
• Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, Anderson Cooper
• Apples Never Fall, Liane Moriarty
• The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
• Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
• Coraline, Neil Gaiman
• Where the Past Begins, Amy Tan
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers
• The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah
• The Women in the Castle, Jessica Shattuck
• No Time Like the Present, Nadine Gordimer
• Factory Man and TrueVine, Beth Macy

We will meet at 12 pm on the 23rd both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

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

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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

John

"prison" by Kim Daram is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Sublimation and Vinyl at the TEC Lab Makerspace! (Nov. 3)

Join us on Wednesday, November 3rd for our TEC Lab workshop on sublimation and vinyl! 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. From mugs to shirts, sublimation printing and heat transfer vinyl can create high quality custom items. Participants can create their own items using these two techniques for printing while learning about each process and the types of items they can be used with.  You can see more information on sublimation and vinyl on our Middletown TEC Lab Makerspace guide.

We are limiting you to 2 blank items per person, but additional blanks can be purchased at minimal cost. 

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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Craters of the Moon National Monument presentation (November 16)

Craters of the Moon National Monument

Tuesday, November 16

4:45-6:15 p.m.

Gardner-Harvey Library SPACE (GRD 014) and on Zoom at https://miamioh.zoom.us/j/82551718301?pwd=WDNyRDdsUjJCRm9LMTVwSUpqcjhYZz09

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.

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We will move the National Parks Talks Series session on Crater Lake (originally scheduled for November 16) into our schedule for the Spring semester.

"Craters of the Moon National Monument, ID" by Mark Kaletka is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Gardner-Harvey Middmester Newsletter: Spooky tales, new furniture, and more

 
Spooky Tales, technology for checkout, and a comfortable new look. All of this and more in our Gardner-Harvey Middmester Newsletter. 

My Strange & Spooky World: An Evening with James A. Willis (Oct. 22)

Join the Gardner-Harvey Library and author and paranormal researcher James Willis at Verity Lodge on Friday, October 22 at 6:00 p.m. for ghost stories and strange tales around the fireplace!

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James A. Willis, Founder and Director of The Ghosts of Ohio and the author of various books such as 'The Big Book of Ohio Ghost Stories', 'Weird Ohio', and 'Central Ohio Legends & Lore' will speak about unusual happenings in Ohio.

Light refreshments will be available. All are welcome to attend at no charge.  Copies of James' books will be available for sale by the author.

"Ghostly Woman" by H o l l y. is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Rescheduled: National Parks Talks Series: Craters of the Moon National Monument (now Nov. 16)

The presentation scheduled for tonight at 4:45pm has been rescheduled until November 16.  We apologize for the need to make this change, and we hope you can join us on the new date.  

We will move the National Parks Talks Series session on Crater Lake (originally scheduled for November 16) into our schedule for the Spring semester.

The new date/time and the Zoom link is below:

Craters of the Moon National Monument

Tuesday, November 16

4:45-6:15 p.m.

Gardner-Harvey Library SPACE (GRD 014) and on Zoom at https://miamioh.zoom.us/j/82551718301?pwd=WDNyRDdsUjJCRm9LMTVwSUpqcjhYZz09

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.

Add this event to your Google Calendar!

"Craters of the Moon National Monument, ID" by Mark Kaletka is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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

 

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 September! We added 223 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: 

• Ghosts and haunts of the Civil War : authentic accounts of the strange and unexplained / Christopher K. Coleman
• On compromise : art, politics, and the fate of an American ideal / Rachel Greenwald Smith
• Among the mosques : a journey across Muslim Britain / Ed Husain
• Subpar parks : America's most extraordinary national parks & their least impressed visitors / Amber Share
• Travels with George : in search of Washington and his legacy / Nathaniel Philbrick
• The three box solution : a strategy for leading innovation / Vijay Govindarajan
• Panics and persecutions : 20 tales of excommunication in the digital age / edited by Claire Lehmann, Colin Wright, Jamie Palmer, Jonathan Kay, Toby Young
• The right to sex : feminism in the twenty-first century / Amia Srinivasan
• A place so deep inside America it can't be seen : poems / Kari Gunter-Seymour
• AI 2041 : ten visions for our future / by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan

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!