April and May Events at the Gardner-Harvey Library

As we enter the last 5 weeks of the spring semester, we want to let you know about all the exciting events we have coming up!  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: Vinyl Clocks

Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 11am - 1pm
Hang out with us in the TEC Lab and use our laser engraver to create a vinyl record clock! Limited supplies available. One clock per person.

Inside Biology Talk: Parasites: What Everyone Else Knows Except You

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, starts at 4:30pm

Join Professor Al Cady to discover parasites common to many human populations but largely unknown to western cultures. Use our registration page to get the Zoom link.

National Park Talks: Mississippian Culture: Archaeological Investigations

Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 4:45-6:15 pm

Join Dr. Tammie Gerke in GRD 014 or on Zoom she discusses her archaeological work and research on artifacts from the Mississippian sites of Wickliffe Mounds, Kentucky; Angel Mounds, Indiana; and Cahokia Mounds, Illinois. Use our registration page to get the Zoom link.

Make It Official Glowforge Laser Cutter/Engraver Certificate

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 2-3pm

Earn a certificate in makerspace equipment!  We are offering a workshop this semester that will prepare you to use laser cutters/engravers. Register today for a one-hour introduction to the technology, a short quiz, and a demonstration of your skills to earn your certificate .

Research and Recognition Reception

Wednesday, May 3, 2023 - 2-3pm

The library would like to celebrate you! Join us in the main entry area of the library to celebrate articles, books, or conference presentations that have been completed in the past year, as well as those who have won a faculty, staff or students award this year. Light refreshments will be provided. 

TEC Lab: May the 4th Be With You

Thursday, May 4, 2023, 11am - 1pm
Join us in the TEC Lab for us to celebrate this “Star-Wars”-themed holiday and craft items that are out of this world! 

Inside Biology Talk: Spiders: They're Here for Good!

Wednesday, May 17, 2023, starts at 3:30pm

Join Professor Al Cady as we learn about spiders and their kin and how they are integral to a functioning system. Use our registration page to get the Zoom link.

May's Middletown Book for Discussion: Dandelion Wine (May 5)

 

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The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, May 5.  We couldn't find a good date to meet in April, so we'll move it into May at the end of the last week of classes. Our title is Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine.  Here is a brief summary:

"In the unusual world of Green Town, Illinois, a twelve-year-old discovers the wonders of reality and the power of imagination during the summer of 1928."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in Miami University Libraries, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, 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.  In addition to discussing The Magnolia Palace, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their March 24 meeting:

• A Wild Rose, Fiona Davis 
• Bill Cunningham: New York (documentary)
• Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
• Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory, Janet Malcolm
• An Immense World, Ed Yong
• The Blue Wonder: Why the Sea Glows, Fish Sing, and Other Astonishing Insights from the Ocean, Frauke Bagusche
• Tinkers, Paul Harding
• Black Beauty (Unabridged), Anna Sewell

We will meet at 12 pm on the 5th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 208763

‬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

"Glazed Green Brick in Quincy" by pasa47 is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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

 

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 February!  You may also want to take a look at the new and old books on our Women's History Month display near the front entrance.

We added 241 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: 

• Breaking the mold : changing the face of climate science / Dana Alison Levy
• My phantoms / Gwendoline Riley
• Professing criticism : essays on the organization of literary study / John Guillory
• Decolonizing design : a cultural justice guidebook / Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall   illustrated by Ene Agi
• A minor revolution : how prioritizing kids benefits us all / Adam Benforado
• Men who hate women : the extremism nobody is talking about / Laura Bates
• De-integrate! : a Jewish survival guide for the 21st century / Max Czollek   translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi"
• Vintage contemporaries : a novel / Dan Kois
• Black women writers at work / edited by Claudia Tate   foreword by Tillie Olsen
• Whorephobia : strippers on art, work, and life / edited by Lizzie Borden

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.