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