Virtual Reality: Make Your Own Viewer at the TEC Lab!

Have you wanted to experience virtual reality (VR) but aren't ready to spend the big bucks on an Oculus Rift or an HTC Vive? Did you know your could make a working VR viewer using just your smartphone and some cardboard?  Now you can! Using a Google Cardboard viewer and a free app on your phone, you can watch 360 degree videos and interact with immersive 3D environments.  

Come to the TEC Lab on Thursday, March 29, between 11:00am-1:00pm AND 6:00pm-8:00pm.  We will supply free Google Cardboard viewers, assemble them, and show you how to experience this growing VR world of free videos and images.  We will also have some other types of viewers on hand for you to try.  No smartphone?  That's OK - we'll have some other devices on hand for you to use.

Remember, if you attend two or more of our library events in Spring 2018, you will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire tablet.

All are welcome to attend. Please drop by at any time during each two hour workshop.

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

Learn about Grand Teton National Park in Middletown!

"National Parks with Dr. Tammie Gerke" is a speaking and video series presented by the Gardner Harvey Library and Dr. Tammie Gerke - a professor of Geology at Miami University Regionals. Each session will focus on a different national park.

This time, Dr. Gerke will discuss Grand Teton National Park. Stop by to hear about the geology and other interesting information about the park.

This session will run Tuesday, March 27th from 4:45pm to 6:15pm with time for questions and discussion. The event will be held in the seating area at the entrance of the Gardner-Harvey Library.

All are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.

Remember, if you attend two or more of our library events in Spring 2018, you will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire tablet.

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

Prepare for spring break with personalized cups made at the TEC Lab!

Stop by the Gardner-Harvey Library's TEC Lab (Room 125) on Thursday, March 15th from 11:00am to 2:00pm to create a personalized water bottle, wine glass, or jar with our cricut cutter.

We will be creating vinyl designs and applying them to the container of your choice.

Limited supplies will be available or feel free to bring your own blank container. You may RSVP to hicksjl2@miamioh.edu if you would like to reserve a wine glass, water bottle, or glass jar for the workshop.

All are welcome to attend. Please drop by at any time during the workshop.

Remember, if you attend two or more of our library events in Spring 2018, you will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire tablet.

Middletown book discussion title for March!

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Wednesday, March 28 to discuss Amy Brill's The Movement of Stars.  We will meet at 12 pm in Room 124 in the Library.   This month, our book discussion is part of the celebration of Women's History Month at Middletown.

Here is a brief summary of the title, along with links to request the book from Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries (Just click "Request" and choose "Miami University" from the dropdown list.  Then enter your UniqueID and password, and the library from which you would like to retrieve the item):  

"Amateur astronomer Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised. Then she meets Isaac Martin, a young, dark-skinned whaler from the Azores who, like herself, has ambitions beyond his expected station in life. Drawn to his intellectual curiosity and honest manner, Hannah agrees to take Isaac on as a student. But when their shared interest in the stars develops into something deeper, Hannah's standing in the community begins to unravel."

Miami, OhioLINK  and SearchOhio

Read the book (or read something else interesting), then come along to our discussion to share what else you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing, and help us plan our future readings.  

Have an idea for a book to discuss?  Let us know and check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

Turn yourself into a hologram at the TEC Lab (March 7)!

Come to the Gardner-Harvey Library on Wednesday, March 7th from 11am-1pm and 6pm-8pm to turn yourself into a hologram!

We will be testing out the new One-Button Studio located in the Gardner-Harvey Library (Room 126) to create hologram videos.

After creating your video, you can step over to the TEC lab (Room 125) and create a mini hologram viewer.

All are welcome to attend. Please drop by at any time during each two hour workshop.

Remember, if you attend two or more of our library events in Spring 2018, you will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire tablet.

Check out the One Button Studio, discuss Monstress, and see what else is happening at Gardner-Harvey Library!

Gardner-Harvey Library has a lot going on this semester and you don't want to miss a thing! Check out our newsletter for information about how to book our One Button Studio, join our upcoming Geology talks, TEC lab events, and the upcoming PZ7 Book Club discussion of Monstress, and how to use Credo InfoLit Modules in courses.

Create your own terrarium at the TEC Lab!

Would you like to make a little desk garden for your office or home?  Then come to the TEC Lab (GRD 125) on Thursday, February 22 between 11:00am-1:00pm AND 6:00pm-8:00pm!  We'll have a workshop that day to show you how to combine live plants, fake plants, rocks, miniatures, and other elements to build your own terrarium.  

All are welcome to attend. Please drop by at any time during each two hour workshop.

We will have glass containers and everything else you need on hand.  If you have a particular piece of glassware or small items you would like to use with your terrarium, please feel free to bring them along.    

Remember, if you attend two or more of our library events in Spring 2018, you will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire tablet.

Learn about Yellowstone National Park in Middletown!

"National Parks with Dr. Tammie Gerke" is a speaking and video series presented by the Gardner Harvey Library and Dr. Tammie Gerke - a professor of Geology at Miami University Regionals. Each session will focus on a different national park.

This time, Dr. Gerke will discuss Yellowstone National Park. Stop by to hear about the geology and other interesting information about the park.

This session will run Tuesday, February 27th from 4:30pm to 6:00pm with time for questions and discussion. The event will be held in the seating area at the entrance of the Gardner-Harvey Library.

All are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.

Remember, if you attend two or more of our library events in Spring 2018, you will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire tablet.

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

New books added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in January!

See our new materials list of items we added to the collection in January! We added 131 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.

Here are eight titles from the list, to give you an idea of what we've been buying:

• Pain : a sociological introduction / Elaine Denny
• Introduction to public history : interpreting the past, engaging audiences / Cherstin M. Lyon, Elizabeth M. Nix, Rebecca K. Shrum
• Modern India : a very short introduction / Craig Jeffrey
• Troublemakers : Silicon Valley's coming of age / Leslie Berlin
• Bit by bit : social research in the digital age / Matthew J. Salganik
• Ghosts of the tsunami : death and life in Japan's disaster zone / Richard Lloyd Parry
• Best practices in planning strategically for online educational programs / Elliot King, Neil Alperstein
• Reinventing the wheel : milk, microbes, and the fight for real cheese / Bronwen Percival, Francis Percival

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 lookout for, or general subject areas we should build up in the collection.

This month we're adding some new materials along with replacements for items that have gone missing from the collection (and those that patrons have chosen to replace). We're looking forward to what you'll recommend next!

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!

Credo InfoLit Modules

Perhaps students in your class or program would benefit from the Libraries new information literacy database, called Credo InfoLit Modules.  These tutorials, videos, and quizzes are useful for working with individual students, groups, or a class.  The 6 modules cover getting started, source types, searching, evaluating information, presenting research, and academic integrity & citations.  You can assign 1 Video, 1 Module, or the entire Curriculum, which can be completed in 2-3 hours.  Use them as discussion starters, as graded assignments in a flipped classroom or traditional one, or as practice.  LTI links in the Credo guide work only in Canvas and send grades to your Canvas gradebook automatically!  Direct links work with the proxy server and can be used in online guides, sites, and syllabi.  

For more information, contact:

Mark Shores, 513-785-3203, shoresml@miamioh.edu  Hamilton

Beth Tumbleson, 513-727-3232, tumbleb@miamioh.edu  Middletown 

The PZ7 Book Club is back at Middletown with new titles and a new time!

PZ7 Book Club Returns!

The PZ7 book club focuses on young adult literature. Discussions will be held at Gardner-Harvey Library from 4:30pm-5:30pm on the second Tuesday each month in the library in Room 124. Bring dinner or a snack to enjoy along with our discussion. Copies of the books can be found in the regular library collection and from OhioLink libraries (ask us for help!).

February 13th - Monstress Vols. 1-2 by Margorie M. Liu
March 13th - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
April 10th - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
May 8th - Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Remember, if you attend two or more of our library events in Spring 2018, you will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire tablet.

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Have a heart for making at the TEC Lab!

February TEC Lab:  Have a Heart

Wed. Feb. 7th 11-1 and 6-8

Join the Gardner-Harvey Library for the first TEC Lab program of the semester with our “Have a Heart” workshop.  Stop by the TEC Lab during workshop hours and create valentine hearts. We will have out the wood burning pens, 3Doodlers, and several other tools to make a variety of projects.

Not only can you take your creation with you, but we will also be collecting hearts for Kensington Place nursing home residents. Our goal is to collect 100 hearts during the workshops so that we may give a valentine to every resident.   So stop in and make a heart, take a heart, give a heart, and have a heart.

Remember, if you attend two or more of our library events in Spring 2018, you will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire tablet.

The Library welcomes you back to the Middletown campus with free beverages all week!

We welcome you back to the Gardner-Harvey Library and the Middletown Campus for Spring Semester!

Come enjoy our study rooms, our TEC Lab, and our computer and open seating spaces and enjoy a cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate during the first week of classes.  We'll have beverages available from Monday, January 29 to Friday, February 2.

We hope we can help you have a great Spring Semester, so let's start it off with a cup of refreshment!

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

Middletown book discussion title for February

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Wednesday, February 14 to discuss Stephanie Powell Watts' No One Is Coming to Save Us.  We will meet at 12 pm in Room 124 in the Library. 

Here is a brief summary of the title, along with links to request the book from Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries (Just click "Request" and choose "Miami University" from the dropdown list.  Then enter your UniqueID and password, and the library from which you would like to retrieve the item):  

"JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he's startled to find that the people he once knew and loved have changed just as much as he has. Ava is now married and desperate for a baby, though she can't seem to carry one to term. Her husband, Henry, has grown distant, frustrated by the demise of the furniture industry, which has outsourced to China and stripped the area of jobs. Ava's mother, Sylvia, caters to and meddles with the lives of those around her, trying to fill the void left by her absent son. And Don, Sylvia's unworthy but charming husband, just won't stop hanging around. JJ's return--and his plans to build a huge mansion overlooking Pinewood and woo Ava--not only unsettles their family, but stirs up the entire town."

Miami, OhioLINK  and SearchOhio

Read the book (or read something else interesting), then come along to our discussion to share what else you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing, and help us plan our future readings.  

Have an idea for a book to discuss?  Let us know and check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

Great Decisions 2018 - Discuss Global Issues in Middletown!

Great Decisions is a national program of the Foreign Policy Association. For 99 years the mission of FPA has been to serve as a catalyst for developing awareness, understanding, and informed opinion on U.S. foreign policy and global issues. Through its balanced, nonpartisan programs and publications, the FPA encourages citizens to participate in the foreign policy process. More information can be obtained on the FPA website: http://fpa.org/about/

The public is invited to the following ten Great Decision sessions, sponsored by the Middletown chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). In addition to the background reading from the program booklet, a DVD with additional background on the topic is shown at each meeting. Anyone with personal background information on the various topics is particularly welcome to participate.             

All sessions will be held from 7:00-8:30 pm at either the Gardner Harvey Library, Miami University Middletown campus (second Thursday each month), or MidPointe Library Middletown (fourth Thursday each month).

• January  11 - The waning of Pax Americana (Gardner-Harvey Library)
• January 25 - Russia’s foreign policy (MidPointe Library Middletown)
• February 8 - China and America: the new geopolitical equation (Gardner-Harvey Library)
• February 22 - Media and foreign policy (MidPointe Library Middletown)
• March 8 - Turkey: a partner in crisis (Gardner-Harvey Library)
• March 22 - U.S. global engagement and the military (MidPointe Library Middletown)
• April 12 - South Africa’s fragile democracy  (Gardner-Harvey Library)
• April 26 - Global health: progress and challenges (MidPointe Library Middletown)

For more information call Katie McNeil, AAUW public policy chair at 513-424-4725  (She has pre-ordered 10 booklets at a cost of $25 each).

New books added to the Gardner-Harvey Library in December!

See our new materials list of items we added to the collection in December! We added 100 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.

Here are eight titles from the list, to give you an idea of what we've been buying:

• How to be a stoic : using ancient philosophy to live a modern life / Massimo Pigliucci
• Arabia Felix : the Danish expedition 1761-1767 / Thorkild Hansen
• Slavery's exiles : the story of the American Maroons / Sylviane A. Diouf
• The social archaeology of food : thinking about eating from prehistory to the present / Christine A. Hastorf
• Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century / Jessica Bruder
• Fighting the death penalty : a fifty-year journey of argument and persuasion / Eugene G. Wanger
• Fade to gray : aging in American cinema / Timothy Shary and Nancy McVittie
• Admissions : life as a brain surgeon / Henry Marsh

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 lookout for, or general subject areas we should build up in the collection.

This month we're adding some new materials along with replacements for items that have gone missing from the collection (and those that patrons have chosen to replace). We're looking forward to what you'll recommend next!

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!

Gardner-Harvey Library Hours for Winter Break and Winter Term

Just to make sure everyone is aware . . .

The Gardner-Harvey Library will be following the hours listed below between December 16, 2017 and January 28. 2018.  Find daily library hours for GHL and other libraries at Miami University.

We wish everyone happy holidays and an enjoyable break!

Winter Break Hours - December 16, 2017 to January 1, 2018

Saturday & Sunday, Dec. 16-17	Closed
Monday-Friday, Dec. 18-22	8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Saturday, Dec. 23rd to Monday, January 1st	Closed

Winter Term 2018 Hours - January 2 to January 28:

Monday	8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Tuesday	8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Wednesday	8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Thursday	8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Friday	8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Saturday	Closed
Sunday	Closed

The library will be closed on January 15 (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

Free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, lemonade, and mints at the Library for Finals Week!

The Library will offer free coffee, tea, hot cocoa, lemonade, and mints all during finals week, starting on Saturday, December 9th, and lasting through Friday, December 15th. It will be set up in our entrance area from roughly 12:00pm to 4:00pm on Saturday, 8:00am to 8:00pm, 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 last minute studying and paper/project preparation a bit more relaxing.  Come grab a study room or a comfortable spot to study, get a beverage, and get your last-minute learning in. 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.

Middletown book discussion title for January

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Thursday, January 4 to discuss Sarah Dunant's Sacred Hearts.  We will meet at 12 pm in Room 124 in the Library. 

Here is a brief summary of the title, along with links to request the book from Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries (Just click "Request" and choose "Miami University" from the dropdown list.  Then enter your UniqueID and password, and the library from which you would like to retrieve the item):  

"The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core."

OhioLINK  and SearchOhio

Read the book (or read something else interesting), then come along to our discussion to share what else you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing, and help us plan our future readings.  

Have an idea for a book to discuss?  Let us know and check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm