August's Middletown Book for Discussion: Gender Queer (August 4)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, August 4.  Our title is Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer.  Here is a brief summary:

"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies (of either the 2019 or 2022 printings) 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 Perestroika in Paris, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their July 7 meeting:

• Am I Blue?, Alice Walker
• Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
• Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life, Peter Walsh
  
• It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward, Elizabeth Passarella
  
• Die With Zero, Bill Perkins
• River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile, Candice Millard
  
• The Lioness, Chris Bohjalian
  
• Suddenly 60, Judith Viorst
• Cheerful By Request, Edna Ferber
• Becoming Grandma, Lesley Stahl
• Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami
• The Backstreets : a novel from Xinjiang, Perhat Tursun
  

We will meet at 12 pm on the 4th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 285411

‬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

"Gender Queer" by Earthworm is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

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

 

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 May!  You may also want to take a look at our monthly book display, for Pride Month in June, near the front entrance.

We added 182 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: 

• The plot to save South Africa : the week Mandela averted civil war and forged a new nation / Justice Malala
• Slow AF run club : the ultimate guide for anyone who wants to run / Martinus Evans
• A trans man walks into a gay bar : a journey of self (and sexual) discovery / Harry Nicholas
• Ableist rhetoric : how we know, value, and see disability / James L. Cherney
• Museums and wealth : the politics of contemporary art collections / Nizan Shaked
• Battle of ink and ice : a sensational story of news barons, North Pole explorers, and the making of modern media / Darrell Hartman
• No one will come back for us : and other stories / Premee Mohamed
• Girlfriend on Mars : a novel / Deborah Willis
• Such kindness : a novel / Andre Dubus III
• Robotics : everything you need to know about robotics from beginner to expert / Peter McKinnon

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.  

This is the last update from our 2023 fiscal year, which is now concluded.  We added 2948 items to the collection, thanks to you!

July's Middletown Book for Discussion: Perestroika in Paris (July 7)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, July 7.  Our title is Jane Smiley's Perestroika in Paris.  Here is a brief summary:

"Paras (short for Perestroika) is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall - she's a curious filly - and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance in the City of Light. As the cold weather and Christmas near, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom among humans and animals alike. But how long can a runaway horse live undiscovered in Paris?"  (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, 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 Night Of Many Endings, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their June 2 meeting:

• The Personal Librarian, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
• Imitation of Life, Fannie Hurst
• Black Beauty, Anna Sewell (our discussion of this book led to a wider discussion of books written from an animal's POV, leading to our July read)
• Hang the Moon, Jeanette Walls
• This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel
• I Let You Go, Claire Mackintosh
• American Dirt, Jeannine Cummins
• The Trackers, Charles Frazier
• Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane
• The Bird Hotel, Joyce Maynard

We will meet at 12 pm on the 7th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 950242

‬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

"A Horse Lost in Paris" by Gwenaël Piaser is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

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

 

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 May!  You may also want to take a look at our diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility display near the InfoDesk.

We added 239 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: 

• Green card soldier : between model immigrant and security threat / Sofya Aptekar
• Up to speed : the groundbreaking science of women athletes / Christine Yu
• Break the wheel : ending the cycle of police violence / Keith Ellison
• I feel no peace : Rohingya fleeing over seas and rivers / Kaamil Ahmed
• TikTok boom : China's dynamite app and the superpower race for social media / Chris Stokel-Walker
• Young queer America : real stories and faces of LGBTQ+ youth / by Maxwell Poth
• Paved paradise : how parking explains the world / Henry Grabar
• The lost journals of Sacajewea : a novel / Debra Magpie Earling
• Unwired : gaining control over addictive technologies / Gaia Bernstein
• Sleeping beauties : the mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture / Andreas Wagner

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.  

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

 

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 April!  You may also want to take a look at the new and old books on our National Mystery Month display near the front entrance.

We added 288 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: 

• The dean of Shandong : confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university / Daniel A. Bell
• A wing and a prayer : the race to save our vanishing birds / Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal
• Unruly therapeutic : Black feminist writings and practices in living room / Foluke Taylor
• Without children : the long history of not being a mother / Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
• How to paint without a brush : the art of Red Hong Yi / Red Hong Yi
• Carmageddon : how cars make life worse and what to do about it / Daniel Knowles
• Nine guiding principles for women in higher education / Karyn Z. Sproles
• This is not Miami / Fernanda Melchor   translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes"
• Poverty, by America / Matthew Desmond
• Leaving Atlanta / Tayari Jones

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.  

June's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Night of Many Endings (June 2)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, June 2.  Our title is Melissa Payne's The Night of Many Endings.  Here is a brief summary:

"As a winter storm buries Silver Ridge, Colorado, a collection of lonely hearts takes shelter in the library. They’ll discover more about each other, and themselves, than they ever knew. No matter how stranded in life they feel, this fateful night could be the new beginning they didn’t think was possible."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in 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 Dandelion Wine, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their May 5 meeting:

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne 
• The Around the World in 80 Days miniseries on PBS
• Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls
• The Lost City of Z, David Grann
• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, Candice Millard
• An Immense World, Ed Yong
  
• I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai
• Below the Edge of Darkness, Edith Widder
• The Saints of Swallow Hill, Donna Everhart
• The Colors of the Cattle, Alexander McCall Smith
• The Husband Hunters, Anne deCourcy
• Circle of Treason, Jeanne Vertefeuille and Sandra Grimes
  
• The Sellout, Paul Beatty
• White Knights in the Black Orchestra, Tom Dunkel
• Debt, Mark Levine
• Mary Oliver's poetry
• Homesick for Another World and My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh

We will meet at 12 pm on the 2nd both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 870836

‬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:Carnegie Library (Monte Vista, Colorado).JPG" by Jeffrey Beall is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Textbook Use, Upcoming Events, and more in our Gardner-Harvey Library Middmester Newsletter

Spring Break is past and we are in the home stretch for the end of spring semester, that means it is time for our Gardner-Harvey Library Middmester newsletter! 

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

 

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 March!  You may also want to take a look at the new and old books on our World Mental Health Awareness display near the front entrance.

We added 242 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: 

• Stash : my life in hiding / Laura Cathcart Robbins
• Racial trauma : clinical strategies and techniques for healing invisible wounds / Kenneth V. Hardy
• Metrics that matter : counting what's really important to college students / Zachary Bleemer, Mukul Kumar, Aashish Mehta, Christopher Muellerleile, and Christopher Newfield
• The black technical object : on machine learning and the aspiration of black being / Ramon Amaro
• Finally seen / Kelly Yang
• Redaction / Titus Kaphar, Reginald Dwayne Betts   [introduction, Sarah Suzuki]
• Skinfolk : a memoir / Matthew Pratt Guterl
• Who gets believed? : when the truth isn't enough / Dina Nayeri
• Poverty, by America / Matthew Desmond
• Hanging out : the radical power of killing time / Sheila Liming

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.  

April and May Events at the Gardner-Harvey Library

As we enter the last 5 weeks of the spring semester, 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! 

TEC Lab: Vinyl Clocks

Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 11am - 1pm
Hang out with us in the TEC Lab and use our laser engraver to create a vinyl record clock! Limited supplies available. One clock per person.

Inside Biology Talk: Parasites: What Everyone Else Knows Except You

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, starts at 4:30pm

Join Professor Al Cady to discover parasites common to many human populations but largely unknown to western cultures. Use our registration page to get the Zoom link.

National Park Talks: Mississippian Culture: Archaeological Investigations

Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 4:45-6:15 pm

Join Dr. Tammie Gerke in GRD 014 or on Zoom she discusses her archaeological work and research on artifacts from the Mississippian sites of Wickliffe Mounds, Kentucky; Angel Mounds, Indiana; and Cahokia Mounds, Illinois. Use our registration page to get the Zoom link.

Make It Official Glowforge Laser Cutter/Engraver Certificate

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 2-3pm

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

Research and Recognition Reception

Wednesday, May 3, 2023 - 2-3pm

The library would like to celebrate you! Join us in the main entry area of the library to celebrate articles, books, or conference presentations that have been completed in the past year, as well as those who have won a faculty, staff or students award this year. Light refreshments will be provided. 

TEC Lab: May the 4th Be With You

Thursday, May 4, 2023, 11am - 1pm
Join us in the TEC Lab for us to celebrate this “Star-Wars”-themed holiday and craft items that are out of this world! 

Inside Biology Talk: Spiders: They're Here for Good!

Wednesday, May 17, 2023, starts at 3:30pm

Join Professor Al Cady as we learn about spiders and their kin and how they are integral to a functioning system. Use our registration page to get the Zoom link.

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. 

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