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

  

We add many new items to the collection each month, and we hope you'll check some out. Take a look at our New Books shelves or the New Media Display to help guide you to some titles, choose from our staff picks (shown above), or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in November!  

We added 122 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: 

• Afraid : understanding the purpose of fear and harnessing the power of anxiety / Arash Javanbakht
• Unruly : the ridiculous history of England's kings and queens / David Mitchell
• Jewish space lasers : the Rothschilds and 200 years of conspiracy theories / Mike Rothschild
• Our history is the future : Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of indigenous resistance / Nick Estes
• Reconstructing DEI : a practitioner's workbook / Lily Zheng
• Refugee students : what every teacher needs to know / Jeffra Flaitz
• The Darcy myth : Jane Austen, literary heartthrobs, and the monsters they taught us to love / Rachel Feder
• Kallocain : a novel from the 21st century / Karin Boye   translated and with an introduction by David McDuff
• Critical data literacies : rethinking data and everyday life / Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn
• Easy Mongolian cookbook : enjoy authentic Mongolian cooking with 50 delicious Mongolian recipes / by BookSumo Press

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 Alan Kelley (kelleya@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. 

If you know some titles we should add, we have acquisitions funds available.  We look forward to your suggestions of items to add to the collection!  

January's Middletown Book for Discussion: Lessons in Chemistry (Jan. 26)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, January 26.  Our title is Bonnie Garmus' Lessons in Chemistry.  Here is a brief summary:

"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, and Kindle 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.  In addition to discussing Mad Honey, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their December 1 meeting:

• Firefly Lane, Kristen Hannah
• Small Great Things, Jodi Picoult
• 19 Minutes, Jodi Picoult
• Demon Copperhead, Barbara kingsolver
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton
• Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
• The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
• The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot, Marianne Cronin
• Tom Lake, Ann Patchette
• The Invisible Hour, Alice Hoffman
• The Trackers, Charles Frazier

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

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  031002

‬Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom 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

John

"Chemistry laboratory at Ashgrove State High School - Brisbane, June 1961" by Queensland State Archives is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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

 

We add many new items to the collection each month, and we hope you'll check some out. Take a look at our New Books shelves or the New Media Display for some of the titles, or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in October!  

You may also want to take a look at our monthly book display near the front entrance, which is currently featuring banned books for Banned Books Week from the start of October, and which will soon be reshelved and replaced with a new display (but a poster will be in place listing the featured Banned Books and why they were banned or removed from libraries). In the picture above, you can see slips in the books placed by patrons who were guessing why each book was banned.

Another bit of inside baseball is the picture below: our shelving cart! Aside from actual numbers of how often books are being checked out, we informally take a look at the shelving cart to see what items are popular with our patrons. This can help guide us on future purchases. It also makes us feel good that you or we have made good decisions when purchasing items -- they are actually going home with people!

We added 86 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: 

• Ways of being : animals, plants, machines : the search for a planetary intelligence / James Bridle
• Why the Bible began : an alternative history of scripture and its origins / Jacob L. Wright
• Erdoğan : a graphic biography : the rise of Turkey's modern autocrat / written by Can Dündar illustrated by Anwar translated by L.L. Kreider
• Learning disobedience : decolonizing development studies / Amber Murrey and Patricia Daley
• The inclusive language field guide : 6 simple principles for avoiding painful mistakes and communicating respectfully / Suzanne Wertheim, PhD
• Civics for the world to come : committing to democracy in every classroom / Nicole Mirra, Antero Garcia
• How AI works : from sorcery to science / by Ronald T. Kneusel
• Trauma sponges : dispatches from the scarred heart of emergency response / Jeremy Norton
• How infrastructure works : inside the systems that shape our world / Deb Chachra
• Out there screaming : an anthology of new Black horror / edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams

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 Alan Kelley (kelleya@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. 

If you know some titles we should add, we have acquisitions funds available.  We look forward to your suggestions of items to add to the collection!  

November Events in the Gardner-Harvey Library

The Gardner-Harvey Library staff would like to take this time to invite you to participate in our November events!  If you have any questions about them, please let us know. Additional information on the events is available (and will be updated) in our Events Calendar.  Everyone is welcome to attend!

TEC Lab: Sublimated Dog (& Cat) Tags!

Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 2-4pm

Do you have the best pup, cat, or even gerbil? Make your furry friend a fancy tag! Drop by the library between 2-4 pm in GRD 014, to choose a sublimated or laser-engraved pet tag. One tag per person.

Underground Academy: National Dishes: More than a recipe

Thursday, November 16, 2023, 4pm

Based upon their book, "Global Dishes: Favorite Meals from Around the World," Lori Parks, an academic advisor, and Caryn Neumann, teaching professor for interdisciplinary and communications studies, at 4pm in GRD 014 or on Zoom. will discuss what makes a national dish and why such dishes often illuminate cultural and political concerns. Discover how a national dish includes much more than its ingredients.

 

 

DEI Book Club: Socio-economic Diversity

Tuesday, November 28, 2023, Noon

Join representatives from Miami Regionals Libraries and the Center of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion in an exploration of literature that embraces diversity in a variety of subject matters. Meeting in JHN 100 face-to-face, and via Zoom! We'll discuss the book Maid by Stephanie Land.

National Park Talk: Yellowstone National Park Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 4:30pm-6:00pm

Don't blow your top! Join us this fall as Tammie L. Gerke, teaching professor in Geology at Miami University, shares the geology and other interesting information about three of our volcanic national parks. Get your questions answered and participate in a lively discussion on these national treasures. Starting at 4:30pm in GRD 014 and on Zoom.

December's Middletown Book for Discussion: Mad Honey (Dec. 1)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, December 1.  Our title is Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan's Mad Honey.  Here is a brief summary:

"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life--living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher--was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. [But then . . .] Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, and Kindle 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.  In addition to discussing Between the World and Me, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their October 27 meeting:

• Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
• Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
  
• The Bee Sting, Paul Murray
  
• If You Tell, Gregg Olsen
• A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham
• The Things We Leave Unfinished, Rebecca Yarros
• The Spectacular, Fiona Davis
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
  
• The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland, Marisa Scheinfeld
• Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier, Alan Zweibel
• A Right Worthy Woman, Ruth Watson
• The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, Allison Pataki
• Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old, Steven Petrow
• Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Kate Andersen Brower
• Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations, William H. McRaven
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton
• Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
  
• Memorial, Bryan Washington

We will meet at 12 pm on the 1st both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  374178

‬Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom 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

John

"beehive" by aethralis is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Fall Middmester is upon us and the Gardner-Harvey Library Newsletter knows what is happening!

Information about November ballot issues, affordable textbooks and OER, and helping the needs of students with our Care Cabinet. All of this, as well as a run down on our remaining fall events, can be found in our Fall Middmester Newsletter.

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

We add many new items to the collection each month, and we hope you'll check some out. Take a look at our New Books shelves or the New Media Display for some of the titles, or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in September!  You may also want to take a look at our monthly book display near the front entrance, which is currently featuring banned books for Banned Books Week (Oct. 2-6). You can also get your picture taken with a banned book (or other book) and we'll create a free READ poster for you.

We added 127 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: 

• Your face belongs to us : a secretive startup's quest to end privacy as we know it / Kashmir Hill
• Never whistle at night : an Indigenous dark fiction anthology / edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr
• Wealth supremacy : how the extractive economy and the biased rules of capitalism drive today's crises / Marjorie Kelly
• No place to go : how public toilets fail our private needs / Lezlie Lowe
• Qualitative literacy : a guide to evaluating ethnographic and interview research / Mario Luis Small, Jessica McCrory Calarco
• Undoing drugs : how harm reduction is changing the future of drugs and addiction / Maia Szalavitz
• Inclusive teaching : strategies for promoting equity in the college classroom / Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy
• What you are looking for is in the library : a novel / Michiko Aoyama 
• The fraud / Zadie Smith
• The book of (more) delights / Ross Gay

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 Alan Kelley (kelleya@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. 

If you know some titles we should add, we have acquisitions funds available.  We look forward to your suggestions of items to add to the collection!  

October Events at the Gardner-Harvey Library

The Gardner-Harvey Library staff would like to take this time to invite you to participate in our October events!  If you have any questions about them, please let us know. Additional information on the events is available (and will be updated) in our Events Calendar.  Everyone is welcome to attend! 

TEC Lab: Make a Pocket Patch with Direct to Transfer Printing 

Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 2:00pm-4:00pm

Got a pocket on your shirt that is looking for some pizazz? We will print a pocket pal to add to your shirt using our Direct to Film -- or DTF -- printer! Your designs can be full color or black and white, and should fit in a 4" x 4" space. You supply the shirt, the library will supply the printout. Then, join us on Oct. 4th in the TEC SPACE (GRD 014)! Please send your designs to HicksJL2@miamioh.edu by Oct. 2nd. 

Banned Books Week: Make your own Read Poster!

Week of October 2nd-6th, 2:00pm-4:00pm each day

It's Banned Books Week, when libraries stand against censorship and the banning of materials from libraries. Come by and see our display of banned books, and also get your picture taken with a book that we will put on your very own READ poster to take with you! We'll offer the poster making opportunity all week, between 2-4pm in at the front of the library!

DEI Book Club: "You Truly Assumed" by Laila Sabreen

Tuesday, October 24th, Noon

Join representatives from Miami Regionals Libraries and the Center of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion in an exploration of literature that embraces diversity in a variety of subject matters. Meeting in JHN 100 face-to-face, and via Zoom! Fill out the form to reserve your free copy of the book!

National Park Talk: Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Tuesday, October 24th, 4:30pm-6:00pm

Don't blow your top! Join us this fall as Tammie L. Gerke, teaching professor in Geology at Miami University, shares the geology and other interesting information about three of our volcanic national parks. Get your questions answered and participate in a lively discussion on these national treasures. Starting at 4:30pm in GRD 014 and on Zoom. Join our Zoom session (passcode: 159607).

October's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Glass Hotel (Oct. 27)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, October 27.  Our title is Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel.  Here is a brief summary:

"In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, and Kindle 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.  In addition to discussing Between the World and Me, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their September 22 meeting:

• Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
• The Swimmers, Julie Otsuka
• Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
• The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt
• Intimacies, Katie Kitamura
• The Sullivanians, Alexander Stille

We will meet at 12 pm on the 27th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 150496

‬Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom 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

John

"Glass Wall" by williamcho is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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

We add many new items to the collection each month, and we hope you'll check some out. Take a look at our New Books shelves (shown above) or the New Media Display for some of the titles, or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in August!  You may also want to take a look at our monthly book display near the front entrance.

We added 92 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: 

• Last call at Coogan's : the life and death of a neighborhood bar / Jon Michaud
• Whalefall : a novel / Daniel Kraus
• Pet : a novel / Catherine Chidgey
• Still born / by Guadalupe Nettel
• Reconstructing response to student writing : a national study from across the curriculum / Dan Melzer
• Anansi's gold : the man who looted the west, outfoxed Washington, and swindled the world / Yepoka Yeebo
• Knowing what we know : the transmission of knowledge, from ancient wisdom to modern magic / Simon Winchester
• Fear not : a Christian appreciation of horror movies / Josh Larsen   foreword by Soong-Chan Rah
• The spires still point to heaven : Cincinnati's religious landscape, 1788-1873 / Matthew Smith
• Let's talk about loneliness : the search for connection in a lonely world / Simone Heng

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 Alan Kelley (kelleya@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. 

If you know some titles we should add, we have acquisitions funds available.  We look forward to your suggestions of items to add to the collection!  

What’s New this Fall? The Fall 2023 GHL Newsletter!

 

A new roof, TEC Lab changes, and workshops and speakers galore! All can be found in the Gardner-Harvey Library Fall newsletter.

September Events at the Gardner-Harvey Library

The Gardner-Harvey Library staff would like to take this time to invite you to participate in our September events!  If you have any questions about them, please let us know. Additional information on the events is available (and will be updated) in our Events Calendar.  Everyone is welcome to attend! 

TEC Lab: Projects for the Beady Eyed

Wednesday, September 6, 2023, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Stop in the library and create with us! We will provide participants with perler and pony beads to create fun projects. Just bring yourself to the TEC SPACE (GRD 014)!

The Underground Academy: At the Water's Edge: a brief story of how whales return to life in the ocean

Thursday, September 14, 2023, Starts at 4pm

Join us in GRD 014 where Carlos Mauricio Peredo, assistant professor of Biological Sciences, will discuss whale evolution, and how they evolved from land animals to life in the ocean.

​DEI Book Club: Diversity in STEM

Tuesday, September 26,  12:00pm-1:00pm

Join representatives from Miami Regionals Libraries and the Center of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion in an exploration of literature that embraces diversity in a variety of subject matters. Meeting in JHN 100 face-to-face, and via Zoom!

National Park Talk: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park 

Tuesday, September 26, 4:30pm-6:00pm

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Don't blow your top! Join us this fall as Tammie L. Gerke, teaching professor in Geology at Miami University, shares the geology and other interesting information about three of our volcanic national parks. Get your questions answered and participate in a lively discussion on these national treasures. Starting at 4:30 pm in GRD 014 and on Zoom. Join Zoom Meeting

 https://miamioh.zoom.us/j/87060982093?pwd=aGtDOWcvSG5rNTNrek4rVmszTFRJQT09 Meeting ID: 870 6098 2093 Passcode: 837713

September's Middletown Book for Discussion: Between the World and Me (Sept. 22)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, September 22.  Our title is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me.  Here is a brief summary:

"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear ... In [this book], Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies (of either the 2019 or 2022 printings) available in Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, and Kindle 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.  In addition to discussing Gender Queer, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their August 4 meeting:

• All Boys Aren't Blue, George M. Johnson
• We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Samra Habib
• Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult
  

We will meet at 12 pm on the 22nd both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 203006

‬Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom 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

"A THOUGHT FOR TODAY from A.Word.A.Day" by Wordsmith.org is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

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

 

We add many new items to the collection each month, and we hope you'll check some out. Take a look at our New Books shelves or the New Media Display for some of the titles, or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in July!  You may also want to take a look at our monthly book display (on the topic of "Time to Travel" in August) near the front entrance.

We added 102 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: 

• The Paradox of Svalbard:  Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic.
• Eight bears : mythic past and imperiled future / Gloria Dickie
• Skin-close computing and wearable technology / Andrews Samraj
• The librarianist : a novel / Patrick deWitt
• Crook manifesto : a novel / Colson Whitehead
• Owlish : a novel / Dorothy Tse   translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce"
• Transclasses : a theory of social non-reproduction / Chantal Jaquet   translated by Gregory Elliott"
• When crack was king : a people's history of a misunderstood era / Donovan X. Ramsey
• Erasing Palestine : free speech and Palestinian freedom / Rebecca Ruth Gould
• Global dishes : favorite meals from around the world / Caryn, E. Neumann, Lori L. Parks, and Joel G. Parks

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 Alan Kelley (kelleya@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. 

If you know some titles we should add, we have acquisitions funds available.  We look forward to your suggestions of items to add to the collection!