Have AI questions? Try our Generative AI Quickstart modules

The Gardner--Harvey Library announces the availability of our Generative AI Quickstart, a set of nine short modules that cover different aspects and uses of AI tools. While the original project these are based on was targeted toward faculty, the material included should be quite helpful for students, faculty, and staff to build their familiarity and skills.

Each module provides key information on its theme using short videos, interactive quizzes, and text. They may be viewed independently or in any order. The nine modules are:

• What is GenAI?
• Types of GenAI Tools
• Tips for Using GenAI
• Responsible Use Considerations
• Potential Uses in Teaching
• Potential Uses in Learning
• Potential Uses in Research Potential Uses for General Workplace Tasks
• Privacy & Security Considerations

We have also included a short survey on the main page of the Quickstart to gather reactions to the modules and your input on other AI education and training we can offer in the future. We also have a short guide to using AI tools for research and other purposes available at https://libguides.lib.miamioh.edu/ai

We're sorry that it took us this long into the semester to complete this first attempt at an AI tutorial. Please have a look and let us know what information you need to more effectively use AI (if you choose to do so). Thank you, and best of luck on finals and completing the semester!

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Join us for these May events at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

Mark your calendar for these great events happening this May at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

You Can Make It @ the TEC Lab Makerspace!

Wednesday, May. 7 | 2 p.m. Gardner-Harvey Library 125 & 014 TEC Space, Middletown Road Trips and Summer Fun! Making Before Finals Are you ready for summer? Take a break from studying, learn about our tools and materials, and make a gift or something beautiful to take home! We’re featuring fun air fresheners you can adorn with your face, a pet, or whatever strikes your fancy. MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries.

The Underground Academy Presents...

Community Partners Wednesday, May. 7 | 4 p.m. Gardner Harvey Library 014 TEC Space, Middletown Zoom and In-Person event Take a tour through Rumpke Landfill with Biology faculty member Janelle Allen. Learn about what happens to waste in our region and how we can partner in our community to reduce our waste footprint and increase human health and the health of our ecosystem. MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries.

Visit for Zoom Link Know Your Body! Nerve Signals and Muscle Movements Wednesday, May. 14 | 4:30 p.m. Zoom Only Event Al Cady, professor of Biological Sciences at Miami University Regionals, will take us on a journey through the inner workings of the human body. Get your biology questions answered as Cady shares the secrets of our insides! MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries. Visit for Zoom Link

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May's Middletown Book for Discussion: Honor (May 30)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, May 30.  Our title is Honor by Thrity Umrigar.  Here is a brief summary:

"The story of two Indian women, one a victim of a brutal crime and the other an Americanized journalist returning to India to cover the story, and the courage they inspire in each other."  (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 How to Read a Book, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their April 29 meeting:

Housekeepers, Alex Hay
Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters
The Bookbinder of Jericho, Pip Williams
The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams

Sweet Bean Paste, Durian Sukegawa
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley
It Ends With Us, Colleen Hoover
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
We Were the Lucky Ones, Georgia Hunter
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris

The Wolves of Eternity, Karl Ove Knausgaard

Circe, Madeline Miller

Spare, Prince Harry

Welcome to the School by the Sea, Jenny Colgan

Honor, Thrity Umrigar

Bruno, Chief of Police Series, Martin Walker

We will meet at 12 pm on the 30th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  478451

‬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

"Portraits of an urban village....Sunday... just a perfect day." by New Delhices is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Read the GHL Middmester Newsletter!

Hello!

Enjoy the Gardner-Harvey Library Middmester Newsletter! Some of the topics covered in this issue include:

• Upcoming interruptions to OhioLINK requests
• Changes to ILL services
• Events
• Information on research assistance

The library is ready to help you finish the semester strong! You can contact us by phone, email, chat, or in person. 

Have a great day!

GHL Library Staff

Join us for these April events at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

 Mark your calendar for these great events happening this April at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

The Underground Academy Presents...

Wednesday, Apr. 2 | 4 p.m. Gardner-Harvey Library 014 TEC Space, Middletown | Zoom and In-person Composting: Take a tour through the Rumpke Landfill with Biology faculty member Janelle Allen. Learn about what happens to waste in our region and how we can partner in our community to reduce our waste footprint and increase human health and the health of our ecosystem. No RSVP is required. Visit MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries for the Zoom link Know Your Body! Wednesday, Apr. 9 | 4:30 p.m. Zoom Only Event Dem Bones, Dem Bones: Al Cady, professor of Biological Sciences at Miami University Regionals, will take us on a journey through the inner workings of the human body. Get your biology questions answered as Cady shares the secrets of our insides! No RSVP is required.  Visit MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries for the Zoom link

National Parks

Tuesday, Apr. 22 | 4:30 p.m.  Zoom Only Event “The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano that Darkened the World and Changed History” Join us this spring as Tammie L. Gerke, teaching professor in Geology at Miami University, leads a book discussion of “The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano that Darkened the World and Changed History” by William Klingaman and Nicholas Klingaman. Get your geology questions answered and participate in a lively discussion! Need a copy of  "The Year Without Summer"? Contact the Gardner-Harvey Library staff. No RSVP is required.  Visit MiamiOH.edu/Regionals/Libraries for the Zoom link

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April's Middletown Book for Discussion: How to Read a Book (April 29)

 

Now I knew that if I posted this yesterday, you would think this was an April Fool. A book club that needs to learn how to read a book? Ha ha!  But this is for real, and that's why I'm posting it on the 2nd. 8-)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, April 29.  Our title is How to Read a Book by Monica Wood.  Here is a brief summary:

"Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed. When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland -- Violet to buy the novel she was reading in the prison book club before her release, Harriet to choose the next title for the women who remain, and Frank to dispatch his duties as the store handyman -- their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in 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 Queen of Fives, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their March 28 meeting:

Housekeepers, Alex Hay
Three Days in June, Anne Tyler
Here One Moment, Liane Moriarty
The Anomaly, Herve Le Tellier

The Life Impossible, Matt Haig
The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley
Joan, Katherine Chen
Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life, Sutton Foster
A Brew to a Kill, Cleo Coyle
The Mitford Years (series), Jan Karon

Verity, Colleen Hoover

Emma, Jane Austen

The Life of Pi, Yann Martel

Welcome to the School by the Sea, Jenny Colgan

Honor, Thrity Umrigar

Angel Harp, Michael Phillips

Gamache (series), Louise Penny

General of the Dead Army, Ismail Kadare

The Wolves of Eternity, Karl Ove Knausgaard

We will meet at 12 pm on the 29th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  611126

‬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

"Print: A Bookstore in Portland, Maine" by Corey Templeton is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

She's Crazy Musical - Join Us in person or Zoom! (March 11)

The Miami Regionals Health and Wellness Steering Committee is proud to be hosting a fabulous musical called "She's Crazy" through a Rise and Thrive grant. This is a live Zoom event, and students, staff, and faculty are all welcome. 

The first event is this Tuesday, 3/11, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and we are hosting WATCH parties on both campuses! Please take a look at the image for details (the watch party for Middletown is in the TEC SPACE (GRD 014) at the Gardner-Harvey Library and the Hamilton locations are in Schwarm Hall (Dining Area) and Rentschler Hall in the SEE Suite (1st floor).

March's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Queen of Fives (March 28)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, March 28.  Our title is The Queen of Fives by Alex Hay. Here is a brief summary:

"A master con woman in 1898 London, Quinn le Blanc has just five days to impersonate a wealthy heiress and ensnare a duke into marriage, but as she infiltrates the high society of the Kendal family, she discovers that deception and hidden motives run on all sides."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in 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 Intermezzo, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their February 28 meeting:

Seduced by the Light: the Mina Miller Edison Story, Alexandria Rimer
Founding Gardeners: the Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation, Andrea Wulf
Basin and Range, John McPhee
The Frozen River, Ariel Lawhorn

A Midwife's Tale: the Life of Martha Ballard, Laura Ulrich
Storming Heaven, Denise Giardina
Brotherless Night, V. V. Ganeshananthan
Precipice, Robert Harris
The Margot Affair, Sanae Lemoine
We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood, Dani McClain

The Chestnut Man, Soren Sveistrup

Sweet Bean Paste, Durian Sukegawa

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, Elif Batuman

We will meet at 12 pm on the 28th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  598698

‬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

"London" by Tekniska museet is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Join us for these March events at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

Mark your calendar for these great events happening this March at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

Build a Terrarium
Wednesday, March 5th, 12-2pm - GRD 014 TEC SPACE
Live plants, fake plants, rocks, miniatures, all can be used to build your own terrarium. Join us in the library and create your own miniature world. You must RSVP by March 3 to take part in the workshop. Email hicksjl2@miamioh.edu to RSVP. Because of the space and supplies required, only ten spots will be available to make terrariums. If you have any glassware or small items you would like to use with your terrarium, please feel free to bring them along.

Garden Stakes
Wednesday, March 5th, 2:00-4:00pm - GRD 125 TEC Lab
Getting ready to garden? Our laser cutters/engravers can help you create labeled stakes to place in your garden to identify what you’ve planted. No green thumb? Come along to engrave something fun on a coaster. 



Underground Academy: Recycling
Wednesday, March 5th, 4:00pm - GRD 014 TEC SPACE and Zoom
Biology faculty member Janelle Allen will share what happens to waste in our region and how we can partner in our community to reduce our waste footprint and increase human health and the health of our ecosystem. Held in the TEC Space or on Zoom. 

Know Your Body! - Defense and Your Immune System

Wednesday, March 12, 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm - Zoom

Al Cady, professor of Biological Sciences at Miami University Regionals, will take us on a journey through the inner workings of the human body. Get your biology questions answered as Cady shares the secrets of our insides! Held only on Zoom 

National Parks Talks: Death Valley National Park

Tuesday, March 18, 4:30pm to 6:00pm - Zoom

Tammie L. Gerke, teaching professor in Geology at Miami University, introduces attendees to the geology of a national park. Get your geology questions answered and participate in lively discussions! Held only on Zoom 

Join us for these February events at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

Mark your calendar for these great events happening this February at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

Know Your Body: Get Under Your Skin
Wednesday, February 12th, 4:30-5:30pm
Al Cady, professor of Biological Sciences at Miami University Regionals, will take us on a journey through the inner workings of the human body. Get your biology questions answered as Cady shares the secrets of our insides! Held on Zoom.

National Park Talk: Discussion of "Basin and Range" by John McPhee

Tuesday, February 18th, 4:30pm
Tammie L. Gerke, teaching professor in Geology at Miami University, leads a book
discussion on geology topics. Get your geology questions answered and participate in lively discussions! Held on Zoom. Need a copy of “Basin and Range”? Contact the Gardner-Harvey Library staff.

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Spring happenings at the Gardner-Harvey Library (Middletown ) - Read our Newsletter!

Welcome back for the spring semester! Check out some of our library events, services and more in the Spring 2025 GHL newsletter!

Welcome Back Pop-Up Making and Textbooks for Free at the Gardner-Harvey Library (Middletown)

Join us for Pop-Up Making at the Gardner-Harvey Library this week, on Tuesday (Jan. 28) and Wednesday (Jan. 29) and take home a free handmade item you'll make with the magic of sublimation. You may drop in the library any time between 10am and 4pm on the 28th and 29th.

Did you know you can borrow Textbooks for Free from the Gardner-Harvey Library? Our Textbook on Reserve program offers copies of textbooks for the following courses.

Most textbooks are available for 1 day check-outs. Don't see your class? Stop by or contact the library, we can also help you find free options for your other textbooks! Instructors: do you wish us to have a copy of your textbook in our reserve collection? Let us know the course and textbook.

What else can you find at GHL?

• Study rooms 
• Free coffee, tea, & snacks(Please limit to 2 snacks per day) 
• The Lounge @GHL 
• TEC Lab and TEC SPACE Makerspaces 
• Laptops (1 week check-out) 
• Research assistance 
• Professor talks & workshops 
• Book groups 
• Play tunes on our keyboard 
• & More