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Sign up today for our Diversity Book Discussion: "Riot Baby" (Feb. 27)

Join us for our February discussion where we will be reading Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi 

We will meet on Tuesday, February 27th, at 12:00 PM. The discussion will be simulcast to both locations of the Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (100 Johnston Hall at Middletown and 114 Rentschler Hall at Hamilton) for attendees who would like to meet face-to-face. You will also be able to attend via Zoom. Snacks will be provided for face-to-face attendees.

Below is a brief synopsis of the book: 

Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered in a drive-by shooting. Things that haven't happened yet. Kev, born while Los Angeles burned around them, wants to protect his sister from a power that could destroy her. But when Kev is incarcerated, Ella must decide what it means to watch her brother suffer while holding the ability to wreck cities in her hands.

Rooted in the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is as much an intimate family story as a global dystopian narrative. It burns fearlessly toward revolution and has quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience.

Please use our LinkTree to sign up so we will know if you're coming to one of the Centers or if you'll join us on Zoom. You can also tell us how you'd like to receive your free copy of the book (while supplies last, limited quantities). 

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors:

Bennyce Hamilton, Director, Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Krista McDonald, Director, Rentschler Library

John Burke, Director, Gardner-Harvey Library

We cannot wait for another excellent book discussion!

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 to help guide you to titles, or at our selection of staff DVD picks or our Black History Month display. You may also skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in January!  

We added 97 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: 

• Bottoms up and the devil laughs : a journey through the deep state / Kerry Howley
• Slow down : the degrowth manifesto / written by Kōhei Saitō 
• Filterworld : how algorithms flattened culture / Kyle Chayka
• The feminist killjoy handbook : the radical potential of getting in the way / Sara Ahmed
• More : a memoir of open marriage / by Molly Roden Winter
• Earlier / Sasha Frere-Jones
• Things that go bump in the universe : how astronomers decode cosmic chaos / C. Renée James
• Nuts & bolts : seven small inventions that changed the world (in a big way) / Roma Agrawal
• The blue machine : how the ocean works / Helen Czerski
• Mapping the darkness : the visionary scientists who unlocked the mysteries of sleep / Kenneth Miller

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!  

Join us for February Events at the the Gardner-Harvey Library!

The Gardner-Harvey Library staff would like to take this time to invite you to participate in our February events!  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, February 7, 2024, 2-4pm

Hang out with us in the TEC Lab (GRD 125) and use our laser engraver to create a vinyl record clock. Limited supplies are available; one clock per person. The event is from 2-4 PM.

 

Animals You Know of But Not About: Cnidaria

Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 4pm

Al Cady, professor of Biological Sciences at Miami University Regionals, will take us on a journey through the inner workings of common but largely unknown animals. Join us in the SPACE (GRD 014) or on Zoom at 4pm.

 

National Park Talk: Dinosaur National Monument

Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 4:30pm

Tammie L. Gerke, teaching professor in Geology at Miami University, will share the geology, archeology, history, and other interesting information as we trek across the United States. Talks will include visits to the southwest, upstate New York, and the Midwest as we look at the new Ohio UNESCO sites. Get your questions answered and participate in a lively discussion on these national treasures in the SPACE (GRD 014) and on Zoom at 4:30 PM.

Underground Academy: “We’re Just Putting It In Our Files”: Lolita at the Cincinnati Public Library

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 4pm

When the controversial novel, “Lolita” first appeared, the Cincinnati Public Library decided to do its part to prevent the book’s circulation -- and the public from reading it -- by hiding it. Marianne Cotugno, interim chair of the Department of Justice and Community Studies, examines what Brian Boys calls one of the “few flickers of outrage” in the U.S. about the novel. Join us in the SPACE (GRD 014) or on Zoom at 4 PM.

DEI Book Club: Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi

Wednesday February 27, 2024, noon

Join representatives from Miami Regionals Libraries and the Center of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion in an exploration of literature that embraces diversity in a variety of subject matters. Meeting in JHN 100 face-to-face, and via Zoom at noon!

February's Middletown Book for Discussion: The Guncle (Feb. 23)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, February 23.  Our title is Steven Rowley's The Guncle.  Here is a brief summary:

"Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no matter how adorable, Patrick is, honestly, overwhelmed. When tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick's brother has a health crisis of his own, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. The Guncle is a moving tribute to the power of love, patience, and family in even the most trying of times."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, and Kindle available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  In addition to discussing Lessons in Chemistry, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their January 26 meeting:

• Tom Lake, Ann Patchette
  
• Absolution, Alice McDermott
• Rebels of Ireland, Edward Rutherfurd
• Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
• For One More Day, Mitch Albom
• Horse, Geraldine Brooks
• Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, Andrea Elliott
  
• The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading, Dwight Garner
  
• Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher
• I Hope You Fail, Pinky Cole
• Profit First, Mike Michalowicz
• Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
• The Greatest Beer Run Ever, John "Chick" Donohue
• Yellow Wife, Sadeqa Johnson
• Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger
• This Tender Land, William Kent Krueger
• Jazz, Toni Morrison
• The Morning Star, Karl Ove Knausgaard

We will meet at 12 pm on the 23rd both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  971199

‬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

"Man and two children" by anyjazz65 is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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 to help guide you to titles,  or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in December!  

We added 50 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 kingdom, the power, and the glory : American evangelicals in an age of extremism / Tim Alberta
• Be your best you : the ultimate research-based guide to outstanding leadership / Mary Kovach, Ph.D.
• A history of fake things on the Internet / Walter J. Scheirer
• Ordinary people : portraits from LGBTQ Armenia, Georgia, and Russia / Ksenia Kuleshova
• Centers for teaching and learning : the new landscape in higher education / Mary C. Wright
• The synthetic university : how higher education can benefit from shared solutions and save itself / James L. Shulman
• Outrageous : a history of showbiz and the culture wars / Kliph Nesteroff
• The intuitionist / Colson Whitehead
• Yesterday : a new history of nostalgia / Tobias Becker
• Blackouts : a novel / Justin Torres

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 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 to help guide you to some titles, choose from our staff picks (shown above), or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in November!  

We added 122 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: 

• Afraid : understanding the purpose of fear and harnessing the power of anxiety / Arash Javanbakht
• Unruly : the ridiculous history of England's kings and queens / David Mitchell
• Jewish space lasers : the Rothschilds and 200 years of conspiracy theories / Mike Rothschild
• Our history is the future : Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of indigenous resistance / Nick Estes
• Reconstructing DEI : a practitioner's workbook / Lily Zheng
• Refugee students : what every teacher needs to know / Jeffra Flaitz
• The Darcy myth : Jane Austen, literary heartthrobs, and the monsters they taught us to love / Rachel Feder
• Kallocain : a novel from the 21st century / Karin Boye   translated and with an introduction by David McDuff
• Critical data literacies : rethinking data and everyday life / Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn
• Easy Mongolian cookbook : enjoy authentic Mongolian cooking with 50 delicious Mongolian recipes / by BookSumo Press

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!  

January's Middletown Book for Discussion: Lessons in Chemistry (Jan. 26)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, January 26.  Our title is Bonnie Garmus' Lessons in Chemistry.  Here is a brief summary:

"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, and Kindle available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  In addition to discussing Mad Honey, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their December 1 meeting:

• Firefly Lane, Kristen Hannah
• Small Great Things, Jodi Picoult
• 19 Minutes, Jodi Picoult
• Demon Copperhead, Barbara kingsolver
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton
• Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
• The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
• The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot, Marianne Cronin
• Tom Lake, Ann Patchette
• The Invisible Hour, Alice Hoffman
• The Trackers, Charles Frazier

We will meet at 12 pm on the 26th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  031002

‬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

"Chemistry laboratory at Ashgrove State High School - Brisbane, June 1961" by Queensland State Archives is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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

You may also want to take a look at our monthly book display near the front entrance, which is currently featuring banned books for Banned Books Week from the start of October, and which will soon be reshelved and replaced with a new display (but a poster will be in place listing the featured Banned Books and why they were banned or removed from libraries). In the picture above, you can see slips in the books placed by patrons who were guessing why each book was banned.

Another bit of inside baseball is the picture below: our shelving cart! Aside from actual numbers of how often books are being checked out, we informally take a look at the shelving cart to see what items are popular with our patrons. This can help guide us on future purchases. It also makes us feel good that you or we have made good decisions when purchasing items -- they are actually going home with people!

We added 86 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: 

• Ways of being : animals, plants, machines : the search for a planetary intelligence / James Bridle
• Why the Bible began : an alternative history of scripture and its origins / Jacob L. Wright
• Erdoğan : a graphic biography : the rise of Turkey's modern autocrat / written by Can Dündar illustrated by Anwar translated by L.L. Kreider
• Learning disobedience : decolonizing development studies / Amber Murrey and Patricia Daley
• The inclusive language field guide : 6 simple principles for avoiding painful mistakes and communicating respectfully / Suzanne Wertheim, PhD
• Civics for the world to come : committing to democracy in every classroom / Nicole Mirra, Antero Garcia
• How AI works : from sorcery to science / by Ronald T. Kneusel
• Trauma sponges : dispatches from the scarred heart of emergency response / Jeremy Norton
• How infrastructure works : inside the systems that shape our world / Deb Chachra
• Out there screaming : an anthology of new Black horror / edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams

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!  

November Events in the Gardner-Harvey Library

The Gardner-Harvey Library staff would like to take this time to invite you to participate in our November events!  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: Sublimated Dog (& Cat) Tags!

Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 2-4pm

Do you have the best pup, cat, or even gerbil? Make your furry friend a fancy tag! Drop by the library between 2-4 pm in GRD 014, to choose a sublimated or laser-engraved pet tag. One tag per person.

Underground Academy: National Dishes: More than a recipe

Thursday, November 16, 2023, 4pm

Based upon their book, "Global Dishes: Favorite Meals from Around the World," Lori Parks, an academic advisor, and Caryn Neumann, teaching professor for interdisciplinary and communications studies, at 4pm in GRD 014 or on Zoom. will discuss what makes a national dish and why such dishes often illuminate cultural and political concerns. Discover how a national dish includes much more than its ingredients.

 

 

DEI Book Club: Socio-economic Diversity

Tuesday, November 28, 2023, Noon

Join representatives from Miami Regionals Libraries and the Center of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion in an exploration of literature that embraces diversity in a variety of subject matters. Meeting in JHN 100 face-to-face, and via Zoom! We'll discuss the book Maid by Stephanie Land.

National Park Talk: Yellowstone National Park Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 4:30pm-6:00pm

Don't blow your top! Join us this fall as Tammie L. Gerke, teaching professor in Geology at Miami University, shares the geology and other interesting information about three of our volcanic national parks. Get your questions answered and participate in a lively discussion on these national treasures. Starting at 4:30pm in GRD 014 and on Zoom.

December's Middletown Book for Discussion: Mad Honey (Dec. 1)

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, December 1.  Our title is Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan's Mad Honey.  Here is a brief summary:

"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life--living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher--was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. [But then . . .] Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves."  (publisher)

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available in Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, paperback, and Kindle available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  In addition to discussing Between the World and Me, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their October 27 meeting:

• Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
• Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
  
• The Bee Sting, Paul Murray
  
• If You Tell, Gregg Olsen
• A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham
• The Things We Leave Unfinished, Rebecca Yarros
• The Spectacular, Fiona Davis
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
  
• The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland, Marisa Scheinfeld
• Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier, Alan Zweibel
• A Right Worthy Woman, Ruth Watson
• The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, Allison Pataki
• Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old, Steven Petrow
• Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Kate Andersen Brower
• Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations, William H. McRaven
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton
• Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
  
• Memorial, Bryan Washington

We will meet at 12 pm on the 1st both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  374178

‬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

"beehive" by aethralis is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Fall Middmester is upon us and the Gardner-Harvey Library Newsletter knows what is happening!

Information about November ballot issues, affordable textbooks and OER, and helping the needs of students with our Care Cabinet. All of this, as well as a run down on our remaining fall events, can be found in our Fall Middmester Newsletter.

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 titles, or skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in September!  You may also want to take a look at our monthly book display near the front entrance, which is currently featuring banned books for Banned Books Week (Oct. 2-6). You can also get your picture taken with a banned book (or other book) and we'll create a free READ poster for you.

We added 127 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: 

• Your face belongs to us : a secretive startup's quest to end privacy as we know it / Kashmir Hill
• Never whistle at night : an Indigenous dark fiction anthology / edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr
• Wealth supremacy : how the extractive economy and the biased rules of capitalism drive today's crises / Marjorie Kelly
• No place to go : how public toilets fail our private needs / Lezlie Lowe
• Qualitative literacy : a guide to evaluating ethnographic and interview research / Mario Luis Small, Jessica McCrory Calarco
• Undoing drugs : how harm reduction is changing the future of drugs and addiction / Maia Szalavitz
• Inclusive teaching : strategies for promoting equity in the college classroom / Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy
• What you are looking for is in the library : a novel / Michiko Aoyama 
• The fraud / Zadie Smith
• The book of (more) delights / Ross Gay

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!