May's Middletown Book for Discussion: Dandelion Wine (May 5)

 

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The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, May 5.  We couldn't find a good date to meet in April, so we'll move it into May at the end of the last week of classes. Our title is Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine.  Here is a brief summary:

"In the unusual world of Green Town, Illinois, a twelve-year-old discovers the wonders of reality and the power of imagination during the summer of 1928."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in Miami University Libraries, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and audiobook 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 The Magnolia Palace, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their March 24 meeting:

• A Wild Rose, Fiona Davis 
• Bill Cunningham: New York (documentary)
• Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
• Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory, Janet Malcolm
• An Immense World, Ed Yong
• The Blue Wonder: Why the Sea Glows, Fish Sing, and Other Astonishing Insights from the Ocean, Frauke Bagusche
• Tinkers, Paul Harding
• Black Beauty (Unabridged), Anna Sewell

We will meet at 12 pm on the 5th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 208763

‬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

"Glazed Green Brick in Quincy" by pasa47 is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

New books (and more) added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in February!

 

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 February!  You may also want to take a look at the new and old books on our Women's History Month display near the front entrance.

We added 241 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: 

• Breaking the mold : changing the face of climate science / Dana Alison Levy
• My phantoms / Gwendoline Riley
• Professing criticism : essays on the organization of literary study / John Guillory
• Decolonizing design : a cultural justice guidebook / Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall   illustrated by Ene Agi
• A minor revolution : how prioritizing kids benefits us all / Adam Benforado
• Men who hate women : the extremism nobody is talking about / Laura Bates
• De-integrate! : a Jewish survival guide for the 21st century / Max Czollek   translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi"
• Vintage contemporaries : a novel / Dan Kois
• Black women writers at work / edited by Claudia Tate   foreword by Tillie Olsen
• Whorephobia : strippers on art, work, and life / edited by Lizzie Borden

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.  

March Events at the Gardner-Harvey Library

As we leave February behind and move into March, we want to let you know about all the exciting events we have coming up!  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!

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TEC Lab: Spring Makers: Design Your Own Beach Bag

Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2023, 11am - 1pm
It’s nearly time for spring break, and you’ll need to gather your beach gear in a snazzy tote bag. So stop by the TEC Lab and design one made for you and your travels! 

Living Library: History through Personal Stories

Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2023, noon to 1pm

The Gardner-Harvey Library is reaching beyond its normal array of books, DVDs, and articles to share the stories of a collection of people: a living library. Join us at Noon on Zoom! Use our registration page to get the Zoom link.

Inside Biology Talk: Water: That Weird, Wacky, and Life-Shaping Stuff

Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2023, starts at 3:30pm

Join Professor Al Cady in GRD 014 or on Zoom as we are shown how the unique properties of water have shaped the evolution of life on earth. Use our registration page to get the Zoom link.

CC: NPS/Spencer Burke

National Park Talks: Mesa Verde National Park

Tuesday, Mar. 28, 2023, 4:45-6:15 pm

Join Dr. Tammie Gerke in GRD 014 or on Zoom as she teaches about the geology, archeology, and other interesting information about the Mesa Verde National Park. Use our registration page to receive the Zoom link.

Make It Official 3D Printing Certificate

Thursday, Mar. 30, 2023 - 2-3pm

Earn a certificate in makerspace equipment!  We are offering a workshop this semester that will prepare you to use 3D printers. Register today for a one-hour introduction to the technology, a short quiz, and a demonstration of your skills to earn your certificate. 

**All images shared under CC0 Public Domain License unless otherwise noted.**

March's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Magnolia Palace (March 24)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, March 24.  Our title is Fiona Davis' The Magnolia Palace.  Here is a brief summary:

"A tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City . . .  a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate--the work has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion--a building that, ironically, bears her own visage--Lillian jumps at the chance. Nearly fifty years later, mod English model Veronica Weber has her own chance to make her career--and with it, earn the money she needs to support her family back home--within the walls of the former Frick residence, now converted into one of New York City's most impressive museums."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in OhioLINK and SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and audiobook 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 The Tobacco Wives, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their February 17 meeting:

• The Boys from Biloxi, John Grisham 
• Lucy By The Sea, Elizabeth Strout
• Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng
• Lark Ascending, Silas House
• Teaching Interculturally, Amy Lee
• Queen of the Desert, Fergus Manson
• Desert Queen, Janet Wallach
• The Enchanted Hour, Meghan Gurdon
• Bravehearted: the Women of the American West, Katie Hickman
• Mark Twain's Autobiography
• The League of Pensioners series, Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg (The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules)
• Either/Or, Elif Batuman

We will meet at 12 pm on the 24th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 893449

‬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

"Frick Garden Court HDR" by gorbould is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

New books (and more) added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in January!

 

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 January!  You may also want to take a look at the new and old books on our Black History Month display near the front entrance.

We added 327 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: 

• Question everything : a Stone reader / edited by Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley
• Myth America : historians take on the biggest legends and lies about our past / edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer
• Doing the right thing : how colleges and universities can undo systemic racism in faculty hiring / Marybeth Gasman
• Geek girls : inequality and opportunity in Silicon Valley / France Winddance Twine
• Becoming the writer you already are / Michelle R. Boyd
• The banshees of Inisherin [videorecording] / written and directed by Martin McDonagh
• Till [videorecording] / Orion Pictures presents   directed by Chinonye Chukwu
• Superstorm 1950 : the greatest simultaneous blizzard, ice storm, windstorm, and cold outbreak of the twentieth century / David A. Call
• Animal ethos : the morality of human-animal encounters in experimental lab science / Lesley A. Sharp
• Life on delay : making peace with a stutter / John Hendrickson

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.  

Survey participation - Regional students and textbooks

Textbooks are often required to participate in courses at Miami, and also can be an expensive part of a student’s budget. You are invited to participate in a research project. The purpose of this research is to examine how Regional campus students purchase, access, and use textbooks and other course materials. This study is being conducted by a researcher from the Regional campus libraries of Miami University. Participation in this research is restricted to persons 18 years of age or older. 

Completing the survey should take about 10 minutes. Your participation is voluntary, you may skip questions you do not want to answer, and you may stop at any time. The survey does not request information that would explicitly identify you. If you inadvertently include identifying information, such information will be removed from stored data. Only the researchers will have access to individual responses. Results of the survey will only be presented publicly as aggregate summaries. The survey will close on February 10.

As a thank you for completing the survey, you may also enter to win one of five $20 gift cards. The research survey and the contact information form will not be linked therefore the research data will remain as anonymous as you provided it.

Follow this link to the survey (or scan the QR code above):

Take the survey

Or copy and paste the URL below into your browser:

https://miamioh.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6EUBbyF8jSeT2Bg

If you have any questions about this research or you feel you need more information to complete this survey, you can contact the lead researcher at burkejj@miamioh.edu .

The Miami University Research Ethics & Integrity Program reviewed and approved this study (04442e). If you have questions or concerns about the rights of research subjects, you may contact our reviewing body: the Research Ethics and Integrity Office at Miami University at (513) 529-3600 or humansubjects@miamioh.edu. 

Thank you for your participation!

John Burke

February events at the Gardner-Harvey Library

While January comes to a close, we want to let you know about all the exciting events we have scheduled for February!  If you have any questions about them, please let me know. Additional information on the events is available (and will be updated) in our Events Calendar.  Everyone is welcome to attend!

​TEC Lab: Make Valentines

Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, 11am - 1pm
It’s almost Valentine's day and whether for friends, family, or other loved ones, we’re here to help you make gifts to show how much you appreciate them! Stop by the TEC Lab (GRD 125) and get making. 

Inside Biology Talk: Human Reproduction: The Inside story

Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, starts at 3:30pm

Join Professor Al Cady in GRD 014 or on Zoom and be taken on a journey to look at the inner workings of mammalian reproduction, from germinal cells to the end product. Use our registration page to get the Zoom link.

​National Park Talks: Accidental Archaeologist

Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, 4:45-6:15 pm

Join Dr. Tammie Gerke  in GRD 014 or on Zoom as she explores her archaeology works in middle Ohio River Valley and Southeast New Mexico. Use our registration page to receive the Zoom link.

Make It Official Heat Press Certificate

Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 - 2-3pm
Earn a certificate in makerspace equipment! We are offering a workshop that will prepare you to use heat presses. Register today for a one-hour introduction to the technology, a short quiz, and a demonstration of your skills to earn your certificate. .

**All images shared under CC0 Public Domain License.**

Free 3D Printing, Textbooks for check out, and so much more in the Gardner-Harvey Newsletter

 

While our wacky weather first week of the spring semester is coming to a close, the Gardner-Harvey Library has a host of events and services that will keep you entertained and engaged no matter the weather outside! 

Read the Spring 2023 Newsletter!

Middletown -Textbooks on Reserve, D.E.I. and student support

Good afternoon,

I hope winter break has given everyone a chance to rest and re-group. Gardner-Harvey Library has been preparing for the start of the spring semester with some updates to our services.  GHL has provided the Textbooks on Reserve (TOR) program for over 15 years and starting this spring we are expanding our collection by adding a special selection of textbooks for Middletown classes that we feel support diversity, equity, and inclusion at Miami.  

For a full list of classes/textbooks or to learn more about the program, check out our TOR page. Books that fall under our new DEI selection are highlighted in red on our main list. The DEI TOR initiative is a university wide program, so please check with your home campus for their offerings.  

If students or faculty members would like to have a textbook added to our TOR program I would be happy to help. The library is also a great resource for students who need to find free class materials. If you are a student struggling with textbook costs, or know someone who is, we would love to help you find resources at our library or help you request textbooks through other Ohio academic libraries.

While I have your attention (hopefully), located in The Lounge @ GHL students have access to free coffee and snacks, a fridge, and microwave. Also located in The Lounge is our Care Cabinet. Students can find hygiene supplies and other items that are free to take. We are always happy to accept donations. Please don’t hesitate to come over or send students over who could benefit from our free services.

Hoping you have a great semester!--

--

Jennifer Hicks, MLIS

Circulation & Reserves Supervisor

Gardner-Harvey Library

Miami University Middletown

513-727-3221

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February's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Tobacco Wives (Feb. 17)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, February 17.  Our title is Adele Myers' The Tobacco Wives.  Here is a brief summary:

"Shedding light on the hidden history of women's activism during the post-war period, at its heart, The Tobacco Wives is a deeply human, emotionally satisfying, and dramatic novel about the power of female connection and the importance of seeking truth."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and audiobook 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 When the Apricots Bloom, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their January 20 meeting:

• Tehran (Apple TV+ series) 
• The Measure, Nikki Erlick
• The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
• Forgiving Paris, Karen Kingsbury
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
• The Librarian Spy, Madeline Martin
• Saving Main Street: Small Business in the Time of COVID-19, Gary Rivlin
• The Plot to Get Bill Gates, Gary Rivlin
• The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey, Serena Burdick
• The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
• Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford, J. Belinda Yandell
  
• I'm Glad My Mom Died, Jeannette McCurdy

We will meet at 12 pm on the 17th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 212484

‬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

"Tobacco" by Felix63 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Welcome back with free beverages and snacks in the GHL Lounge! (January 23 to January 27)

 

Try out the new Gardner-Harvey Library Lounge and enjoy free beverages and snacks while you relax with our Oculus VR and Nintendo Switch games. Come see what the Lounge and the Library have to offer!

We will have free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and snacks during the first week of classes, starting on Monday, January 23rd and lasting through Friday, January 27th.

Stop by the new GHL Lounge in Room 110 from 8:00am to 7:00pm, Monday through Thursday, and from 8:00am to 5:00pm on Friday. Please drop on by and enjoy a cup!

Welcome to the semester, and thanks for being a part of our library community!

New books (and more) added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in December!

 

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 December! 

We added 148 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: 

• Madam C.J. Walker : the making of an American icon / Erica L. Ball
• A short history of queer women / Kirsty Loehr
• Mortal doubt : transnational gangs and social order in Guatemala City / Anthony W. Fontes
• Pests : how humans create animal villains / Bethany Brookshire
• Cybersecurity for small networks : a no-nonsense guide for the reasonably paranoid / by Seth Enoka
• You made a fool of death with your beauty : a novel / Akwaeke Emezi
• Sisters in the fire : the first African American women firefighters / Portia Rawles
• Disability pride : dispatches from a post-ADA world / Ben Mattlin
• The wages of whiteness : race and the making of the American working class / David R. Roediger
• White torture : interviews with Iranian women prisoners / Narges Mohammadi   foreword by Shirin Ebadi   translated by Amir Rezanezhad"

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.  

Happy Holidays to all from the GHL Library Staff and our book tree!

The Library building is closed on Friday, December 23, but our chat is open until 5pm

 

The building is closed, but you can still reach our staff with your questions from 8:00am to 5:00pm today.  Use our Contact Us page to send us a text, email, or to start a chat with us.  We're happy to help you out!

Stay warm and safe, and we'll see you on January 3, 2023 after the break!

January's Middletown Book for Discussion: When the Apricots Bloom (Jan. 20)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, January 20.  Our title is Gina Wilkinson's When the Apricots Bloom.  Here is a brief summary:

"At the turn of the millennium, three very different women must navigate the complexities of trust under the oppression of a brutal dictator."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and audiobook 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 Hour of the Witch, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their December 16 meeting:

• Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver 
• The Yellow Wife, Sadeqa Johnson
• Golden Girl, Elin Hildebrand
• When Crickets Cry, Charles Martin
• Last Summer at the Golden Hotel, Elyssa Friedland
• The Gene, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
• China, Edward Rutherfurd
• Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, Anne Edwards
• Nanaville, Anna Quindlen
• Trust, Hernan Diaz
• In Love, Amy Bloom
• The Song of the Cell, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Makes Us Whole, Susan Cain
• Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus

We will meet at 12 pm on the 20th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 921187

‬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

"File:Gardens in Baghdad 38.jpg" by Usamasaad is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

New books (and more) added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in November!

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 title, or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in November! 

We added 249 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: 

• Smashing statues : the rise and fall of America's public monuments / Erin L. Thompson
• The Internet is for cats : how animal images shape our digital lives / Jessica Maddox
• Data cartels : the companies that control and monopolize our information / Sarah Lamdan
• Africa risen : a new era of speculative fiction / edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight
• Psychopolitics / Peter Sedgwick   new introduction by Tad Tietze
• Tickets for the ark : from wasps to whales - how do we choose what to save? / Rebecca Nesbit
• Language and the rise of the algorithm / Jeffrey M. Binder
• Stories no one hopes are about them / by A.J. Bermudez
• Aesthetica / Allie Rowbottom
• I thought I heard a cardinal sing : Ohio's Appalachian voices / edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour

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.  

Free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and snacks at the Gardner-Harvey Library! (Dec 5-Dec 9)

 

The Library will offer free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and snacks during the week of finals, starting on Monday, Dec. 5th and lasting through Friday, Dec. 9th. 

Stop by the GHL Lounge in Room 110 from 8:00am to 7:00pm, Monday through Thursday, and from 8:00am to 5:00pm on Friday. Please drop on by and enjoy a cup!

It's our way of making your end of semester studying and paper/project preparation a bit more relaxing. If we can help with any research, let us know.

We wish you well on your finals!  You got this!

Thanks for being a part of our library community!

The image above was provided through a Creative Commons CC-BY-2.0 license by fronx.