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!