April's Middletown Book for Discussion on Zoom: The Sun Also Rises

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, April 27.  Our title is Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of expatriates from "the Lost Generation" and their travels in France and Spain in the 1920s:

"The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman a clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor have yet to lose their currency, the novel captured for the generation that would come to be called "Lost" the spirit of its age."  

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 March 30th, the members of the group had a spirited discussion of The Grapes of Wrath, and also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey
• OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind, Jill Filipovic
• IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives, Chris Stedman
• I Had a Hammer, Hank Aaron
• The Outlander Book Series, Diana Gabaldon
• The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
• When You Read This, Mary Adkins
• Killing Commendatore, Haruki Murakami

We will meet at 12 pm on the 27th 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

"Dueño y señor de Pamplona" by Chema Concellón is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Finding scholarly articles online: Internet Archive Scholar and Google Scholar

 

The Internet Archive Scholar is a new resource for you to use when searching for scholarly information. It includes over 25 million digitized research articles that have been preserved by the Internet Archive and its ongoing scans of information online.  It brings together historical materials along with more current open access publications that may be hard to access elsewhere.  A fuller explanation of Internet Archive Scholar is available in this Internet Archive blog post.

You may have used Google Scholar in the past, and this is an opportunity to remind you about this resource and how it works.  The reach of Google Scholar is much larger than that of Internet Archive Scholar, but not everything is available in full-text.  And some of the full-text access is only available to you through licensed materials that Miami University Libraries and OhioLINK subscribe to.  You can watch our Two Minute Tutorial on Google Scholar for more information on using this tool. 

Both of these resources are now linked on the library's Google Scholar tab for your easy access.  And don't forget, in addition to these free resources, you also have access to Miami University Libraries' Articles & More search and the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center to find scholarly information.  Happy searching, and happier finding!

"Women In Tech - 79" by wocintechchat.com is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Gardner-Harvey Library Newsletter: Updated databases and new 3D printer

 

Snazzy new eBook platforms, a new 3D printer, and a look ahead to the Fall, all that and more in the Gardner-Harvey Library Middmester newsletter!

Survey participation - Student use of E-books

You are invited to participate in a research project being conducted by the librarians at Miami University Regionals regarding regional campus student usage of library-owned e-books and e-textbooks to complete their coursework. Results will inform our purchasing decisions, instructional approaches, and marketing efforts.

If you agree to participate, we would like you to complete an online survey (found below). Completing the survey will take approximately 5-10 minutes. You are free to stop taking this survey if you prefer not to answer any question. Confidential search data will be kept anonymous and secure. Once you complete the survey, you will be directed to a second survey for you to enter your UniqueID for a drawing for a $25 Walmart gift card (your responses on the first survey are not connected to your UniqueID and are completely anonymous). The survey will close on April 9.

The project has been approved by the Miami University Institutional Review Board. If you have any questions about this project, please contact Mark Shores at shoresml@miamioh.edu

Follow this link to the Survey:

Take the survey

Or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:  

https://miamioh.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0fAaw2X4u1Oag2q

Mark Shores
Krista McDonald
John Burke
Jessie Long

There's a new 3D printer in town: GHL has added the Raise3D Pro2

 

The TEC Lab Makerspace at the Gardner-Harvey Library has added a new 3D printer:  the Raise3D Pro 2!  This printer expands the size of objects that we can print, and also offers a higher quality print resolution.  It can use a wide array of filament types, and is completely enclosed, using an air filtration system.

You can request a 3D print and read more about 3D printing on our TEC Lab Makerspace guide.

Below are some answers to questions about 3D printing.  Let us know if you have others by using the contact information on the guide.

How much does it cost?

3D printing charges are based on how long it takes to print an item.  The first hour of printing is free.  Each additional hour will cost $1.00.

How big of an object can I print?

Our largest printer can print in these dimensions: 11 × 12 × 11.8 inches (280 × 305 × 300 mm) 

What colors can I print in?

We have many filament colors.  See our current list.

Can I print anything I want to?

We ask that you respect the intellectual property of others and follow U.S. copyright laws, and not create any objects for the purpose of endangering anyone, both in keeping with the Miami University 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Policy.

New date! Now on April 20 - Great Smoky Mountains: Dr. Tammie Gerke's National Parks Talks

 

Join us as Dr. Gerke talks about Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She will discuss the geology and other interesting information about the park.

This session will run Tuesday, April 20th from 4:45pm to 6:15pm with time for questions and discussion. The event will be held as a free online meeting. Add this event to your Google calendar!  

When it is time for the event, use this link to join the presentation:  Join Zoom Meeting

All are welcome to attend!

"Chimney Tops Great Smoky Mountains" by mrksteele04 is marked with CC PDM 1.0

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

 

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 February 2021! We added 177 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: 

• This is how they tell me the world ends : the cyberweapons arms race / Nicole Perlroth
• College belonging : how first-year and first-generation students navigate campus life / Lisa M. Nunn
• The uberfication of the university / Gary Hall
• A bright ray of darkness / Ethan Hawke
• The prophets : a novel / Robert Jones, Jr
• The light ages : the surprising story of medieval science / Seb Falk
• Deep learning / John D. Kelleher
• Extraterrestrial : the first sign of intelligent life beyond Earth / Avi Loeb
• The Internet in everything : freedom and security in a world with no off switch / Laura DeNardis
• Consent : a memoir / Vanessa Springora
• A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order / Judith Flanders

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!

Visit the Human Library on March 10 - Ask Questions and Hear Unique Stories

 

The Gardner-Harvey Library is reaching beyond our normal array of books and DVDs and articles and sharing the stories of a collection of people:  a Human Library.  This effort, inspired by a group in Denmark (https://humanlibrary.org), is all about the opportunity to share our stories with one another.  We believe it is powerful to communicate with other people, and in particular to have the opportunity to talk to someone you would not ordinarily have access to.  

We will be holding the Human Library on Wednesday, March 10 from Noon until 1:00pm on Zoom (use this link to join: Join Zoom Meeting). Add this event to your Google Calendar!

Our human books each represent a different group, occupation or identity in our society. See a full list of our books at the Reserve link below (you can also watch a short video of some of our books).  You will have the opportunity to spend 5-10 minutes in breakout rooms with as many books as you would like and hear their stories.  

We would like you to Reserve Your Books ahead of the session to make it easier for us to have you meet with them. 

Maybe there is a question that readers have always wanted to ask someone about their hobby, their religion, their job, or their way of being in the world.  Through conversation we can work against bias, prejudices, and stereotypes and enhance common understanding.  We are eager for you to join us!

Thank you so much for considering taking part.  Let us know if you have any questions.

John Burke, burkejj@miamioh.edu

Jessie Long, longjh@miamioh.edu

Jennifer Hicks, hicksjl2@miamioh.edu

"Graphic Conversation" by Marc Wathieu is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Isle Royale: Dr. Tammie Gerke's National Parks Talks

Join us as Dr. Gerke talks about Isle Royale National Park. She will discuss the geology and other interesting information about the park.

This session will run Tuesday, March 16th from 4:45pm to 6:15pm with time for questions and discussion. The event will be held as a free online meeting. Add this event to your Google calendar!  

When it is time for the event, use the link below to join the presentation:

Join Zoom Meeting

All are welcome to attend!

"View from Lookout Louise, Isle Royale National Park, Rock Harbor, Michigan" by Corvair Owner is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 

March's Middletown Book for Discussion on Zoom: The Grapes of Wrath

 ​

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, March 30.  Our title is John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of environmental disaster and economic ruin:

"The epic story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity."  

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 February 23rd, the members of the group also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• The Women of Copper Country, Mary Doria Russell
• The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
• One Size Fits None, Stephanie Anderson
• Devolution, Max Brooks
• Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
• The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd
• The Survivors, Jane Harper 
• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison
• The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah (which led us to read the Grapes of Wrath this time)
• The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu
• Blindness, Jose Saramago
• Tokyo Ueno Station, Yu Miri
• The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante

We will meet at 12 pm on the 30th 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

"dustbowl" by abbyinokc is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

How to Make Sure You Have Good Information

How can you be sure that the information you find through Google or the library is going to be useful for your assignment? 

Use the SIFT steps in the following link (Stop, Investigate, Find, Trace) or the image below to make sure your source is on track.  You can also consult our Avoiding Bad or Fake News guide.

SIFT was featured in a New York Times column today, if you'd like to get some further background on the concept.

*Design layout for SIFT based on shared image from the University of Oregon

"sifting screen, back" by vrogy is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Rescheduled: Join us on Zoom on Feb. 23rd for Death Valley with Dr. Tammie Gerke!

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have rescheduled our National Parks talk. The below information has been updated for the new event date (2/23/21):

Join us as Dr. Gerke talks about Death Valley National Park. She will discuss the geology and other interesting information about the park.

This session will be held on Tuesday, February 23rd from 4:45pm to 6:15pm with time for questions and discussion. The event will be held as a free online meeting. Add this event to your Google calendar!

When it is time for the event, use the link below to join the presentation:

Join Zoom Meeting https://miamioh.zoom.us/j/84534092333?pwd=ZVJuTHZKOXhwS1BKQlFwbUhIRFpXUT09

All are welcome to attend.

"Death Valley" by peretzp is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Join us on Zoom this Tuesday for Death Valley with Dr. Tammie Gerke!

Join us as Dr. Gerke talks about Death Valley National Park. She will discuss the geology and other interesting information about the park.

This session will run Tuesday, February 16th from 4:45pm to 6:15pm with time for questions and discussion. The event will be held as a free online meeting.  Add this event to your Google calendar!  

When it is time for the event, use the link below to join the presentation:

Join Zoom Meeting https://miamioh.zoom.us/j/84534092333?pwd=ZVJuTHZKOXhwS1BKQlFwbUhIRFpXUT09

All are welcome to attend.

"Death Valley" by peretzp is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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

 

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 December 2020 and January 2021! We added 112 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: 

• Black futures / edited by Kimberly Drew + Jenna Wortham
• The Company : the rise and fall of the Hudson's Bay empire / Stephen R. Bown
• Vision or mirage : Saudi Arabia at the crossroads / David H. Rundell
• Virtual cities : an atlas & exploration of video game cities / Konstantinos Dimopoulos
• Recasting the vote : how women of color transformed the suffrage movement / Cathleen D. Cahill
• The Chicana/o/x dream : hope, resistance, and educational success / Gilberto Q. Conchas, Nancy Acevedo
• At night all blood is black / David Diop
• Fathoms : the world in the whale / Rebecca Giggs
• Stranger faces / Namwali Serpell
• Maker literacies for academic libraries : integration into curriculum / edited by Katie Musick Peery

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!

Gardner-Harvey Library Newsletter: New databases and online events

New year, new databases, videos, and eBooks! Check out the Gardner-Harvey Library Newsletter for details about new OhioLINK resources, upcoming virtual events, and more!

Hear Unique Stories - Visit the Human Library

The Gardner-Harvey Library is reaching beyond our normal array of books and DVDs and articles and, with your participation, sharing the stories of a collection of people:  a Human Library.  This effort, inspired by a group in Denmark (https://humanlibrary.org), is all about the opportunity to share our stories with one another.  We believe it is powerful to communicate with other people, and in particular to have the opportunity to talk to someone you would not ordinarily have access to.  

Our hope is to gather a collection of human "books" that represent different departments, groups, occupations, or identities in our society, and then hold an event in which the participants, or "readers," can borrow a member from the Human Library and have a conversation.  Maybe there is a question that readers have always wanted to ask someone about their hobby, their religion, their job, or their way of being in the world.  Through conversation we can work against bias, prejudices, and stereotypes and enhance common understanding.  

We will be holding the Human Library on Wednesday, March 10 from Noon until 1:00pm on Zoom (use the following link to join):

Join Zoom Meeting https://miamioh.zoom.us/j/82364534533?pwd=MDVUVytEVmRvVFVUVUszN0JjekJDQT09  

At the opening of the session, we will share a list of our human books, each representing a different group, occupation or identity in our society. You will have the opportunity to spend 5-10 minutes in breakout rooms with as many books as you would like and hear their stories.

We have already had some books volunteer, and you can watch a short video of some of them.

We are also interested in hearing your unique story as a book.  If you are willing to volunteer, please fill out our form.

Thank you so much for considering taking part.  Let us know if you have any questions.

John Burke, burkejj@miamioh.edu

Jessie Long, longjh@miamioh.edu

Jennifer Hicks, hicksjl2@miamioh.edu

"Graphic Conversation" by Marc Wathieu is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Death Valley: Dr. Tammie Gerke's National Parks Talks

 Join us as Dr. Gerke talks about Death Valley National Park. She will discuss the geology and other interesting information about the park.

This session will run Tuesday, February 16th from 4:45pm to 6:15pm with time for questions and discussion. The event will be held as a free online meeting.  Add this event to your Google calendar!  

When it is time for the event, use the link below to join the presentation:

Join Zoom Meeting https://miamioh.zoom.us/j/84534092333?pwd=ZVJuTHZKOXhwS1BKQlFwbUhIRFpXUT09

All are welcome to attend.

"Death Valley" by peretzp is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Join us Online! February's Middletown Book for Discussion: Dreamers of the Day

 
The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, February 23.  Our title is Mary Doria Russell's Dreamers of the Day.  Here is a brief summary of this tale of an accidental witness to the history of the Middle East:

"A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American opinions, she becomes a sounding board for these historic luminaries who will, in the space of a few days, invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  We are back in the library and have both OhioLINK deliveries and statewide delivery from Search Ohio's public libraries 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 January 19th, the members of the group also shared these titles to add to your reading/viewing lists:

• The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa
• Revenge, Yoko Ogawa
• The Blue View, Rodney Muterspaw
• John Grisham's A Time for Mercy
• Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, A Wealth of Pigeons
• The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
• Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh
• The Bookshop of Yesterdays, Amy Meyerson
• Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
• Changing Places, David Lodge
• The Women of Copper Country, Mary Doria Russell
• The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
• The Bees, Laline Paull
• 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, Elif Shafak
• The Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli
• Untamed, Glennon Doyle
• The Hum and the Shiver, Alex Bledsoe
• The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat
• Closed for Winter, Jorn Lier Horst
• An Orchestra of Minorities, Chigozie Obioma
• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, Simon Winchester

We will meet at 12 pm on the 23rd in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting https://miamioh.zoom.us/j/84716924335?pwd=SHFrTDI3MXVDbklTL1ArN01iak9wQT09 

  

You may also join by calling +1 929-205-6099‬

 

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

"adv Semiramis Hotel,Cairo 1938" by janwillemsen is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0