September's Middletown Book for Discussion: Jane Eyre (Sept. 28)

 

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The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, September 28.  Our title is Charlotte Bronte's classic Jane Eyre.  Here is a brief summary of this mid-19th century novel, published by Bronte under the pen name "Currer Bell":

"The story of a plain and penniless orphan who accepts a job as governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret."  

Here is where you can find the book (note: our delivery service among Ohio libraries is extremely slow at the moment.  But, the movement of books within the Miami system or within an individual public library's system appears to be moving as fast as normal):

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the 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.  On August 31st the members of the group discussed The Paris Library, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
• The Fault in our Stars, John Green
• The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams 
• Fast Girls, Elise Hooper
• The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner
• Small Great Things, Jodi Picoult
• Women in Sunlight, Frances Mayes
• Mountain Time, Ivan Doig
• The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
• Old in Art School, Nell Painter
  
• Beneficence, Meredith Hall
• A Very Punchable Face, Colin Jost
• The Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

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

Join Zoom Meeting

You may also join by calling +1 253-215-8782‬

Passcode: 893374
‬

Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom and calling 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

"jane eyre" by sonnetofthemoon is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Delays in delivery of OhioLINK materials

Due to pandemic-induced shortages of delivery employees and supplies, many requested OhioLINK items are experiencing significant delays.

OhioLINK believes that this problem will persist into the fall semester, although they are seeing a pattern of gradual improvements. More info here.

For the time being, please expect longer-than-usual delivery times for items, and consider a plan B in case not all items arrive as soon as needed. Library staff are unable to track or estimate individual delivery times for individual items. Regionals Libraries staff are happy to help you locate alternative access or additional materials wherever possible.

Gardner-Harvey Library Newsletter: See what is happening in the library this Fall

Something old, something new, things that can always be borrowed, and things that have been updated to better suit your research needs, all can be found in our Fall newsletter. 

TEC Lab Mini-Maker Faire @ Gardner-Harvey Library (Sept. 1)

 

Join us on Wednesday, September 1st for our Mini Maker Faire! The Faire is open for you to stop in any time between 11am and 1pm, or between 4pm and 6pm.

Stop in to check out our TEC Lab and all the equipment available to use. We will have a variety of stations set up so you can make items to take with you. 

Have you wanted to try sublimation? Design your own tote with sublimation. Are you interested in 3D printing? Watch our printers in action and try your hand with a 3D pen. Did you know the library has a laser engraving machine? Create a drink coaster with your name engraved. 

Drop by during a session to try these maker projects and others. Attendees will have the opportunity to enter raffles and win their own maker supplies!

How was the Gardner-Harvey Library used in 2020/21?

 

Here are the full annual statistics from fiscal year 2021 (the 2020/21 academic year) for several of the Gardner-Harvey Library's (GHL) services. I hope you will find them useful to see how people use the library.

This was, of course, yet another crazy year, following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic during the 2019/20 academic year.  As we changed fiscal years at the end of June 2020, the library remained closed to the public through July and did not reopen until August 17 when Fall 2020 classes began.  We lost 34 scheduled days in the building (about 14% of our total open days for the year).  That did impact many of our library services, though during that time we managed to continue our services online alongside our Hamilton campus colleagues and in cooperation with our colleagues in Oxford.  We are grateful for everyone's patience with us as we continued to work from home through the middle of August and then work split schedules on site and from home for the rest of the academic year.  

These statistics reflect what happened between July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021. Some stats we keep locally, others we pull from university-wide or OhioLINK-wide systems, and some are provided by database vendors.

Read on for full details on these and other activities.

On Average

Taking the statistics below and guesstimating a total Middletown community of 2000 students, faculty and staff members (and including community patrons), here's what can be said about the average person on campus. She:

- checks out one item from the library each year (reserves and local/MU/OhioLINK collection items)
- visits the library 4 times per year
- accesses the library web site nearly 7 times per year.
- participates in a library instruction session or an embedded librarian course once every two years (if she is a student).

Now on to the detailed analysis!

Both a Borrower and a Lender Be

- GHL patrons checked out 848 books and DVDs from us (509 from our local collection, 197 ordered from other MU libraries, and 142 items ordered from OhioLINK - that means that 40% of the items used by campus patrons came from libraries beyond GHL). That is a 45% decrease in total borrowing over 2019-2020.

- The GHL collection registered 2,557 checkouts (that's the 509 items checked out by Middletown patrons above, plus 1,437 items sent to OhioLINK users, and 611 sent to other MU libraries - that means that 80% of the uses of our materials came from libraries beyond GHL). That is a 19% decrease in total lending over 2019-2020. 

- GHL patrons checked out 661 reserve items from us (this includes faculty-placed course reserves, textbooks on reserve, study rooms, laptops, iPads, and other equipment). That is a 74% decrease from 2019-2020. Textbooks on reserve checkouts totaled 33 in 2020-21, a decrease of 93% from 2019-20.  The primary reason for both the reserves and the textbooks decreases was that courses on the Middletown campus were largely online for all of the 2020/21 academic year, and we were not checking out print reserves for much of year while we were practicing book quarantining (holding used materials for 3-5 days between uses to allow the COVID-19 virus to die off).  University Libraries did institute the LOLA: Limited Online Library Access service in Fall 2020 to allow textbooks and other printed materials to be scanned and used by individuals. GHL staff scanned several of our most commonly used textbooks for use in the service.

- In terms of building up our collection, Middletown faculty, staff, and students ordered 1512 items to add to our collection this year. That is a 12% decrease from 2019-2020.  

- We registered a total of 3,218 checkouts of items in our collection (reserves and circulating materials). The circulating items at GHL number 31,958, so each item in the collection circulated 0.10 times this year (all items in our library circulate). 

The Quest for Information

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40 people visit our web site every day. That's a total of 14,510 visits for the year, by 3,947 unique individuals. That's a 8% increase in visits and a 1% increase in unique visitors from 2019-20.

- Gardner-Harvey Librarians also create and maintain subject guides to our databases and other information sources called LibGuides.  In 2020-21, we were responsible for 124 LibGuides, either individually or in cooperation with our colleagues at the Rentschler Library in Hamilton or University Libraries in Oxford.  Those guides received a total of 26,791 visits during the year, for an average of 216 visits per guide.

Helping You Find What You Need

- In synchronous Zoom, Meet, and WebEx sessions, we gave library instruction presentations in 11 classes this year, reaching 218 students (a decrease of 72% from 2019-2020). 

- Our Embedded Librarian program reached students from 26 course sections in their Canvas course sites during the academic year (that is a 33% decrease from 2019-2020). We helped over 549 students with their information needs through the program.

A Place for Work, Study, and Remove from the World

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GHL will be open 57 hours per week for Fall 2021, but we operated on reduced hours during Fall 2020, Spring 2021, and Summer 2021 (between 36 and 40 hours per week).

- We averaged 35 visitors per day, for a total of 8,676 visits this year. This reflects a 75% decrease from 2019-2020. Our best attended day was May 26, 2021, with 83 visitors. We had 37 days with 50 or more visitors (15% of our open days)

- In normal times, we regularly schedule the library learning lab (GRD 111) for single class sessions. We also schedule Study Room 110 for class sessions.

- With reduced capacity for social distancing and the need to use two of our rooms for furniture storage and book quarantining, we had seven study rooms checked out 389 times this year by students, faculty, and staff members. That represents a 70% decrease from 2019-20.  

- We held several events on Zoom this year since we were unable to meet in person.  We had a total of 18 events:  11 MUM Book Discussion Group meetings, 6 National Parks geology video/lectures by Dr. Tammie Gerke, and our Human Library event.  Total attendance for Fall and Spring semesters was 128, for an average of 7 people per event.  

- We provided 2 TEC Lab workshops in Fall 2020 with video instructions and take home kits.  We also hosted sessions for the STEAM Studio program in Summer 2021.  

What don't we know about how the library is used?

- One key part missing from these figures is off-campus use of library resources: all off-campus use is tallied as MU-wide use, so we do not know how many Middletown patrons are using databases from home (we estimate a lot of you are).

- We don't have campus-specific stats for all database searches - we're missing uses of Nexis Uni, the EBSCO databases, and other databases that are tracked on a whole-university level.

- We hope you'll continue to let us know what you think about the library, what you need from us, and what materials we should order for the collection.

Thanks to everyone for making the library and its resources a vital part of your academic lives! We really appreciate the opportunity to meet your needs in the library and remotely during this very unusual year, and we look forward to a very different year in 2021/22).

The Gardner-Harvey Library Staff

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

 

We are adding many new items to the collection each month, and making sure that you can see them on display! Take a look at our New Books shelves or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in July! We added 151 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: 

• Better to have gone : love, death, and the quest for utopia in Auroville / Akash Kapur
• The Appalachian Trail : a biography / Philip D'Anieri
• Creating a culture of innovation : design an optimal environment to create and execute new ideas / Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
• An ugly truth : inside Facebook's battle for domination / Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
• Female monarchs and merchant queens in Africa / Nwando Achebe
• The natural mother of the child : a memoir of nonbinary parenthood / Krys Malcolm Belc
• The Holly : five bullets, one gun, and the struggle to save an American neighborhood / Julian Rubinstein
• Razorblade tears / S. A. Cosby
• Cultish : the language of fanaticism / Amanda Montell
• Intimacies / Katie Kitamura

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 Amy Carmichael (carmicae@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. 

Thanks again for keeping our collection vibrant and your information needs met!

August's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Paris Library

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, August 31.  Our title is Janet Charles' The Paris Library.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of a library worker in Paris at the advent of World War II:

"Paris, 1939. Young and ambitious Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear - including her beloved library. After the invasion, as the Nazis declare a war on words and darkness falls over the City of Light, Odile and her fellow librarians join the Resistance with the best weapons they have: books. "  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the 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.  On July 27th, the members of the group discussed Outline, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• The Paris Architect, Charles Belfoure
• The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War, Halik Kochanski
• The Music of Bees, Eileen Garvin
• The Paris Library, Janet Charles
• The Big Finish, Brooke Fossey
• The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd
• Tuscan Child, Rhys Bowen
• The Opposite of Fate, Alison McGhee
• America for Beginners, Leah Franqui
• Strange Birds, Celia Perez
• A Mosaic of Wings, Kimberly Duffy
• A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
  
• The Souvenir Museum, Elizabeth McCracken
  
• Analogia, George Dyson
  
• Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
  
• Memorial, Bryan Washington
  
• Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue
  

We will meet at 12 pm on the 31st both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

You may also join by calling +1 253-215-8782‬

Passcode: 893374
‬

Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom and calling 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

"La caverne aux livres" by gadl is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

July's Middletown Book for Discussion: Outline

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, July 27.  Our title is Rachel Cusk's Outline.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of a writer on a short-term trip to Greece:

"Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss."

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the 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.  On June 29th, the members of the group had a spirited discussion of The Widow's War, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• John Grisham – Sooley
• TaraShea Nesbit – Beheld
• Kristin Hannah – The Four Winds
• Ruth Hogan – The Keeper of Lost things
• Robin Wall Kimmerer  – Braiding Sweetgrass
• Hope Jahren – Lab Girl
• Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca
• R.A. Moss – King Robin
• Camille DeAngelis – Bones and All
• Susan Orlean - The Library Book
• Maggie O’Farrell – I Am, I Am, I Am / Hamnet
• Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
• Patrick Radden Keefe - Say Nothing
• Clare Pooley - The Authenticity Project
• Madhuri Vija - The Far Field
• Kristina McMorris - Sold on a Monday
• Ernest Hemingway – A Movable Feast
• Ayana Mathis - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
• Abbi Waxman - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
• Anne Tyler - Spool of Blue Thread
• Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
  
  

We will meet at 12 pm on the 27th both in Room 124 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

You may also join by calling +1 253-215-8782‬

Passcode: 893374
‬

Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom and calling 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

"Athens" by Chris Ruggles is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

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

We are adding many new items to the collection each month, and making sure that you can see them on display! Take a look at our New Books shelves or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in June! We added 62 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: 

• Americanon : an unexpected U.S. history in thirteen bestselling books / Jess McHugh
• The day the world stops shopping : how ending consumerism saves the environment and ourselves / J.B. MacKinnon
• Gentelligence : the revolutionary approach to leading an intergenerational workforce / Megan Gerhardt, Josephine Nachemson-Ekwall, and Brandon Fogel
• You're invited : the art and science of cultivating influence / Jon Levy
• Policing Black bodies : how Black lives are surveilled and how to work for change / Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith
• Everyone knows your mother is a witch / Rivka Galchen
• Shape : the hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else / Jordan Ellenberg
• Touring the climate crisis : saving the earth around the world / Osseily Hanna
• The plague year : America in the time of COVID / Lawrence Wright
• Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest / Suzanne Simard

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.

We had a very successful 2020-21 academic year, adding 1512 items to our collection.  Thank you for all of your suggestions and requests!  We've started our new fiscal year on July 1, and we're ready for new requests for the 2021-2022 academic year.

If you have a suggestion of something to order, please use our "Tell GHL to Buy It" form, email Amy Carmichael (carmicae@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. 

Thanks again for keeping our collection vibrant and your information needs met!

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

If you've been thinking about reading a book, we have many new ones (plus a lot of older ones) ready to go!

Take a look at our New Books shelves or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection during May 2021! We added 149 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: 

• Punch me up to the gods / Brian Broome
• Central America's forgotten history : revolution, violence, and the roots of migration / Aviva Chomsky
• Jackpot : how the super-rich really live--and how their wealth harms us all / Michael Mechanic
• Create amazing : turning your employees into owners for explosive growth / Greg Graves
• Your turn : how to be an adult / Julie Lythcott-Haims
• Better, not bitter : living on purpose in the pursuit of racial justice / Yusef Salaam
• Skim, dive, surface : teaching digital reading / Jenae Cohn
• We are Bellingcat : global crime, online sleuths, and the bold future of news / Eliot Higgins
• The plot / Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Beloved beasts : fighting for life in an age of extinction / Michelle Nijhuis

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.

Thank you for all of your suggestions and requests!  If you have a suggestion of something to order, please use our "Tell GHL to Buy It" form, email Amy Carmichael (carmicae@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.

Thanks again for keeping our collection vibrant and your information needs met!

June's Middletown Book for Discussion on Zoom: The Widow's War

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, June 29.  Our title is Sally Gunning's The Widow's War.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of a woman seeking freedom in a whaling village:

"Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts—running their house herself during her husband's long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward will simply not return. And when her worst fear is realized, she finds herself doubly cursed. She is overwhelmed by grief, and her property and rights are now legally in the hands of her nearest male relative: her daughter's overbearing husband, whom Lyddie cannot abide. Lyddie decides to challenge both law and custom for control of her destiny, but she soon discovers the price of her bold "war" for personal freedom to be heartbreakingly dear."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through SearchOhio (we also have a copy on order).  
  
• Amazon has the 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.  On May 25th, the members of the group had a spirited discussion of The Lost Man, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
  
• Black Widows, Cate Quinn
  
• The Widow's War, Sally Gunning
  
• Anxious People, Frederik Backman
  
• Eventide, Kent Haruf
  
• Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue
  
• Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes
  
• The Motion of Light in Water, Samuel Delany
  
• I Am, I Am, I Am, Maggie O'Farrell
  
• The Beautiful Mystery, Louise Penny
  
• The Searcher, Tana French
  

We will meet at 12 pm on the 29th in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

You may also join by calling +1 253-215-8782‬

Passcode: 893374
‬

Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom and calling 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

"Humpback Whale - what a snapshot; Stellwagen Bank, Massachusetts" by Traveller-Reini is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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

 

If you've been thinking about reading a book, we have many new ones (plus a lot of older ones) ready to go!

Take a look at our New Books shelves or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection during April 2021! We added 163 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: 

• Reopening Muslim minds : a return to reason, freedom, and tolerance / Mustafa Akyol
• The ravine : a family, a photograph, a Holocaust massacre revealed / Wendy Lower
• Management as a calling : leading business, serving society / Andrew J. Hoffman
• Breaking the social media prism : how to make our platforms less polarizing / Chris Bail
• Beyond the gender binary / Alok Vaid-Menon
• Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system / Jed S. Rakoff
• Out of many, one : portraits of America's immigrants / George W. Bush
• Atlas of AI : power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence / Kate Crawford
• The man who lived underground : a novel / Richard Wright
• Good talk : a memoir in conversations / Mira Jacob

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.

Thank you for all of your suggestions and requests!  If you have a suggestion of something to order, please use our "Tell GHL to Buy It" form, email Amy Carmichael (carmicae@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.

Thanks again for keeping our collection vibrant and your information needs met!

May's Middletown Book for Discussion on Zoom: The Lost Man

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, May 25.  Our title is Jane Harper's The Lost Man.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of brothers and a mystery in the Australian outback:

"Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. Their third brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet. In an isolated belt of Queensland, Australia, their homes a three-hour drive apart, the brothers were one another's nearest neighbors.  While they grieve Cameron's loss, suspicion starts to take hold, and Nathan is forced to examine secrets the family would rather leave in the past. Because if someone forced Cameron to his death, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  All of our statewide delivery services are up and running.  We do have our curbside pickup operating as well as in-house pickup.
  
• Amazon has the 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.  On April 27th, the members of the group had a spirited discussion of The Sun Also Rises, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• The Ken Burns Hemingway documentary on PBS
• A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
• The Survivors, Jane Harper
• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison
• Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi
• Bright Ray of Darkness, Ethan Hawke
• The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer
• The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
• The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes
• Apeirogon, Colum McCann
• Snow White Must Die, Nele Neuhaus
• Devolution, Max Brooks

We will meet at 12 pm on the 25th in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

You may also join by calling +1 253-215-8782‬

Passcode: 893374
‬

 

Add this event to your Google Calendar!  (which includes the Zoom and calling 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 Looming Threat', Australia, The Outback, Pine Creek" by WanderingtheWorld (www.ChrisFord.com) is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Put the library on your resume! The Gardner-Harvey Library is hiring student assistants.

We have openings for two student assistants in the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown Campus.  Read the detailed job description and apply today! 

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

 

If you've been thinking about reading a book, we have many new ones (plus a lot of older ones) ready to go!

Take a look at our New Books shelves or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection during March 2021! We added 133 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: 

• Nuestra América : my family in the vertigo of translation / Claudio Lomnitz
• Microintervention strategies : what you can do to disarm and dismantle individual and systemic racism and bias / Derald Wing Sue [and four others]
• The world turned upside down : a history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Yang Jisheng
• Oneness embraced : reconciliation, the kingdom, and how we are stronger together / Tony Evans
• Broke in America : seeing, understanding, and ending US poverty / Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox
• Rituals roadmap : the human way to transform everyday routines into workplace magic / Erica Keswin
• Global aging : comparative perspectives on aging and the life course / Frank J. Whittington, PhD, Suzanne R. Kunkel, PhD, Kate de Medeiros, PhD
• Moms don't have time to : a quarantine anthology / edited by Zibby Owens
• The blue view : the uncut journal of an Ohio police chief / Rodney Muterspaw
• Approaching (almost) any machine learning problem / Abhishek Thakur

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.

Thank you for all of your suggestions and requests!  If you have a suggestion of something to order, please use our "Tell GHL to Buy It" form, email Amy Carmichael (carmicae@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.

Thanks again for keeping our collection vibrant and your information needs met!