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

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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!