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

Schedule library instruction for Spring 2025

We hope you all have had a warm and restful winter break. We are reaching out today to remind and encourage you to schedule your library instruction for the upcoming semester 

Recently, we have noticed a greater need for library instruction and support from our student body. Whether students weren't taught formal researching skills in their high school, they are our ECA students who are finishing out their high school experiences at Miami, or they just aren't confident navigating our current information landscape (use of AI, mis/disinformation, etc.), students need assistance learning the ins and outs of academic researching. 

We strongly encourage instructors with research assignments in their syllabi this semester to work with us in the Regional Campus Libraries. Together, we can ensure that your students receive the support they need as they learn about conducting academic research for the first time or need help strengthening these skills. 

When you contact us here at the libraries, we will work with you to determine what services would best meet your course needs. We offer in-class instruction, virtual instruction, and embedded instruction to both in-person and online classes. We also have research guides that can be added to your Canvas courses that walk students through the library resources that are best suited to complete your research assignments. There are many ways that we can assist you and your students and more information about these services can be found on our website: Rentschler Library - Services for Faculty. or for Middletown: Faculty Services (Middletown): Teaching & Classroom Support.

If you are ready to schedule an instruction session for a class at the Hamilton campus, you can fill out a Library Instruction Request form or contact Mark Shores at Mark.Shores@miamiOH.edu. If you want to schedule a session for a class at the Middletown campus, reach out to John Burke at burkejj@miamiOH.edu.

We appreciate your time and look forward to collaborating with you for a great spring semester. 

February's Middletown Book for Discussion: Intermezzo (February 28)

 

​

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, February 28.  Our title is Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. Here is a brief summary:

"Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties -- successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude -- a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking."  (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 An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their January 3 meeting:

The Six Triple Eight (Netflix)

Thelma (Hulu)

How the Penguins Saved Veronica, Hazel Prior
The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle, Joanne Huist Smith
Texas, James Michener

Ragnar Jonasson (Icelandic crime writer)

The Paris Novel, Ruth Reichl
Revenge of the Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell

Atomic Habits, James Clear

The Gap and The Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success, Dan Sullivan

Light Pirate, Lily Brooks-Dalton

In Ascension, Martin MacInnes

Shoplifters (Peacock)

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

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  276688

‬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

"The romantic couple, Dublin, Ireland" by Giuseppe Milo (www.pixael.com) is licensed under CC BY 2.0.