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.

December's Middletown Book for Discussion: Hour of the Witch (Dec. 16)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, December 16.  Our title is Chris Bohjalian's Hour of the Witch.  Here is a brief summary:

"The enthralling story of a young Puritan woman who marries the wrong man, seeks to divorce him, and soon finds herself caught up in the violence and hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials"  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through 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 When the Emperor Was Divine, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their October 21 meeting:

• Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders 
• Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Never Let Me Go,  Kazuo Ishiguro
• Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger
• All the Lovers in the Night, Mieko Kawakami
• China, Edward Rutherfurd
• The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See
• The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die, Keith Payne

We will meet at 12 pm on the 16th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 060677

‬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

"Girls of Salem, Massachusetts" by Len Radin is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Don't miss our next TEC Lab: Make Holiday Gifts (Dec. 1)

 

TEC Lab: Make Holiday Gifts

Thursday, Dec. 1st, 11:00am-1:00pm
Join us in the TEC Lab (Room 125, Gardner-Harvey Library, Middletown)  to make your own handmade gifts for the holiday season!

We supply the equipment and materials -- you bring the joy! 

Heat press!  Wood engraving!  3D printing and pens! And so much more! 

Make a gift at the workshop, and then return to make additional items (the TEC Lab is available whenever the library is open).

Albanian Discoveries: the Excavation of the Unknown Temple of Apollonia (Nov. 29)

 

Albanian Discoveries: the Excavation of the Unknown Temple of Apollonia

Tuesday, Nov. 29th, 6:30pm

Join Dr. Tammie Gerke, Teaching Professor in Geology, in the Gardner-Harvey Library SPACE (GRD 014) or join us on Zoom (Passcode 745987) as she discusses her contributions to archaeological work in the ancient Greek colony of Apollonia.

The talk is also in recognition of the forthcoming publication of a book on the expedition, A Sanctuary in the Hora of Illyrian Apollonia: Excavations at the Bonjaknt Site 2004-2006 (Material and Visual Culture of the Ancient Mediterranean World), which Dr. Gerke contributed to.  We have ordered a copy and we will be happy to check it out to you as soon as we receive it!

Add this event to your Google Calendar!

National Park Talk: Great Sand Dunes National Park

Join us for an overview of Great Sand Dunes National Park and its geology on Tuesday, November 15 at 4:45pm, either in the Gardner-Harvey Library SPACE (Room GRD 014 on the library's lower level) or on Zoom (Join us in Zoom - Passcode 017640).

Dr. Tammie L. Gerke, Teaching Professor in Geology at Miami University, will share the geology and other interesting information about the national park. Get your questions answered and participate in a lively discussion on this national treasure.

This is the third of three National Parks Talks that Dr. Gerke will present this semester, all highlighting some of the newest parks.  Look for her upcoming talk on Albanian Discoveries: the Excavation of the Unknown Temple of Apollonia on Tuesday, Nov. 29th, at 6:30pm.
She discusses her contributions to archaeological work in the ancient Greek colony of Apollonia.

Add this event to your Google calendar

Mark your calendar for our GHL Faculty Publication Reception (Nov. 29)

 

Faculty Reception: COVID Catch-Up Edition

The Gardner-Harvey Library staff invites you to join us for our Tuesday, November 29th 3:30pm to 4:30pm in the GHL Main area.

Have an article, book, or conference presentation from 2019 or after that you would like to share with us? Use the QR Code to post your recent publications so that we can celebrate you at our reception! 

Don't miss our next TEC Lab: Laser engraving wooden spoons (and more) (Nov. 9)

 

TEC Lab: Laser engraving wooden spoons (and more)

Wednesday, Nov. 9th, 11:00am-1:00pm
Join us in the TEC Lab (GRD 125) as we use our laser engravers to make custom spoons and more! We'll demonstrate how our two laser cutter/engravers can add text and images to wood, acrylic, and other materials.  

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

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 October! 

We added 324 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: 

• Inside Wikipedia : how it works and how you can be an editor / Paul A. Thomas
• The persuaders : at the frontlines of the fight for hearts, minds, and democracy / Anand Giridharadas
• Dinosaurs : a novel / Lydia Millet
• Elderflora : a modern history of ancient trees / Jared Farmer
• Global faith, worldly power : evangelical internationalism and U.S. empire / edited by John Corrigan, Melani McAlister, and Axel R. Schafer
• A genius for confusion : Joseph R. McCarthy and the politics of deceit / Richard M. Fried
• Rap Capital : an Atlanta story / Joe Coscarelli
• Microverses : observations from a shattered present / Dylan Riley
• Everyday adventures with unruly data / Melanie Feinberg
• Home bound : an uprooted daughter's reflections on belonging / by Vanessa A. Bee

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. 

We're still early in our fiscal year for 2022/23, and we have acquisitions funds available.  We look forward to your suggestions of items to add to the collection.  

November's Middletown Book for Discussion: Klara and the Sun (Nov. 18)

 

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The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, November 18.  Our title is Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun.  Here is a brief summary:

"From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?"  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, 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 Emperor Was Divine, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their October 21 meeting:

• The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka 
• The Swimmers, Julie Otsuka
• Anybody's Daughter, Pamela Samuels Young
• Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, Diana Gabaldon (Outlander series)
• The Daughters of Yalta, Catherine Grace Katz
• Fellowship Point, Alice Elliott Dark
• Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
• The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
• Passing, Nella Larsen
• Lupin (Netflix series)
• Colleen Hoover (the publishing phenomenon)

We will meet at 12 pm on the 18th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode: 474822

‬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

"James' robot friend" by rcolonna is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Friday Frightful Fun: Movies and Pumpkin Decorating at the Gardner-Harvey Library (Oct. 28)

 Join us this Friday, October 28 for two events at the Gardner-Harvey Library:

TEC Lab: Pumpkin Decorating

11:00am-1:00pm
With Halloween around the corner, join us in the TEC Lab (GRD 125) to decorate and take home a real or artificial pumpkin! 

Friday Fright Movie Marathon

10:00am to 5:00pm

Join us in the GHL Lounge (GRD 110) for a horror movie marathon.  There will be free popcorn and scares for all who dare!

Let me know (burkejj@miamioh.edu) if you have any questions about the events.  See you there!

GHL Middmester Newsletter: Keeping the horror in the books, not your research

Autumn is the perfect time to cuddle up with a good book, and October is the prime time to throw in a dash of horror to your reading routine. Check out what we have added, what books and movies are suggested by other students, faculty, and staff, and what events we have left not just for October, but the rest of the semester. All of this and more can be found in our 'middmester' newsletter.

National Park Talk: Pinnacles National Park (Oct. 18)

 

Join us for an overview of Pinnacles National Park and its geology on Tuesday, October 18 at 4:45pm, either in the Gardner-Harvey Library SPACE (Room GRD 014 on the library's lower level) or on Zoom (Join us in Zoom - Passcode 768612). 

Dr. Tammie L. Gerke, Teaching Professor in Geology at Miami University, will share the geology and other interesting information about the national park. Get your questions answered and participate in a lively discussion on this national treasure.

This is the second of three National Parks Talks that Dr. Gerke will present this semester, all highlighting some of the newest parks.  Look for our upcoming talk, at the same starting time, on November 15 (Great Sand Dunes National Park).

Add this event to your Google Calendar!

Dr. Gerke will also be presenting an online overview of the park system for the MU Alumni Association entitled "National Parks: All You Ever Wanted to Know and More." The event will be held on November 8 at noon, and you may register at this link.

"Pinnacles National Park" by Joe Parks is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.

November (and December) events at the Gardner-Harvey Library

Our October events are still ahead on the calendar, but we wanted to let you know in advance of our exciting events for November (and the first of December)!  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: Laser engraving wooden spoons (and more)
Wednesday, Nov. 9th, 11:00am-1:00pm
Join us in the TEC Lab (GRD 125) as we use our laser engraver to make custom spoons and more! 

       

National Park Talk: Great Sand Dunes National Park
Tuesday, Nov. 15th, 4:45pm-6:15pm
Join Dr. Tammie Gerke in GRD 014 or on Zoom as she teaches about the geology and other interesting information about the Great Sand Dunes National Park.

    

Albanian Discoveries: the Excavation of the Unknown Temple of Apollonia

Tuesday, Nov. 29th, 6:30pm

Join Dr. Tammie Gerke in GRD 014 or on Zoom as she discusses her contributions to archaeological work in the ancient Greek colony of Apollonia.

    

TEC Lab: Make Holiday Gifts

Thursday, Dec. 1st, 11:00am-1:00pm
Join us in the TEC Lab (GRD 125) to make some gifts for the holiday season! 

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

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 September! 

We added 311 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: 

• Fostering student success : academic, social, and financial initiatives / edited by Sigrid Kelsey
• Long hard road : the lithium-ion battery and the electric car / Charles J. Murray
• American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics / Kevin Hazzard
• A history of the world through body parts : the stories behind the organs, appendages, digits, and the like attached to (or detached from) famous bodies / Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras
• The marriage portrait / Maggie O'Farrell
• Acne : a memoir / Laura Chinn
• Racial equity on college campuses : connecting research and practice / edited by Royel M. Johnson, Uju Anya, and Liliana M. Garces
• So you want to work in a museum? / Tara Young
• Gender queer : a memoir / by Maia Kobabe   colors by Phoebe Kobabe
• Fen, bog & swamp : a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis / Annie Proulx

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. 

We're still at the beginning our fiscal year for 2022/23, and we have acquisitions funds aplenty.  We look forward to your suggestions of items to add to the collection.