June's Middletown Book for Discussion: Revisiting a Book From Your Past (June 14)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Friday, June 14.  We are not all reading the same title this time, but taking on more of a challenge: what is a book you've read in your past, perhaps a classic from middle school or high school, that you did not enjoy? Try reading it now, and share with the group how your perspective may have changed. We think this will be a fun experience for each individual, but will also give us a chance to discuss many books in the same session.

What will your choice be? Beowulf? The Importance of Being Earnest? The Old Man and the Sea? The Great Gatsby? Lord of the Flies? The Tempest? 

Here is where you can find the book you choose:

• Check the catalogs for copies at Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio libraries.  

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 Days Without End, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their May 14 meeting:

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out, Shannon Reed

Olivetti, Allie Millington
The Last Supper, Rachel Cusk
The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Women, Kristin Hannah
All the Beauty in the World, Patrick Bringley
A Thousand Moons, Sebastian Barry
Pym, Mat Johnson
Beowulf
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

We will meet at 12 pm on the 14th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  593209

‬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

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Join us for our May events at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

The Gardner-Harvey Library staff would like to take this time to invite you to participate in our May 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: May the 4th Be With You

Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 2-4pm

We know the calendar says it’s the eighth, but we’re celebrating this “Star Wars”- themed holiday by crafting items that are out of this world! Join us in the Library from 2-4 PM.

Animals You Know of But Not About: Echinodermata

Tuesday, May 14, 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 (room 014) and on Zoom at 4pm. 

 

Image courtesy François Michonneau HectonichusPhilippe Bourjon Hectonichus Philippe Bourjon Bruce Martin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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

 

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 recently updated display for Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (shown above)!  You may also skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in April!  

We added 45 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: 

• Tracing homelands : Israel, Palestine, and the claims of belonging / by Linda Dittmar
• New cold wars : China's rise, Russia's invasion, and America's struggle to defend the West / David E. Sanger, with Mary K. Brooks
• Kids across the spectrums : growing up autistic in the digital age / Meryl Alper
• Machine learning Q and AI : 30 essential questions and answers on machine learning and AI / by Sebastian Raschka
• Thank you please come again : how gas stations feed & fuel the American South : a photographic road trip / by Kate Medley   foreword by Kiese Laymon
• While we were burning / Sara Koffi
• James : a novel / Percival Everett
• All the campus lawyers : litigation, regulation, and the new era of higher education / Louis H. Guard and Joyce P. Jacobsen
• Future of denial : the ideologies of climate change / Tad DeLay
• Countdown : the blinding future of nuclear weapons / Sarah Scoles

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!  

May's Middletown Book for Discussion: Days Without End (May 14)

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Tuesday, May 14.  Our title is Days Without End by Sebastian Barry. Here is a brief summary:

"Entering the U.S. army after fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland, seventeen-year-old Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, experience the harrowing realities of the Indian wars and the American Civil War between the Wyoming plains and Tennessee."  (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 Tom Lake, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their April 19 meeting:

Poverty by Matthew Desmond

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Mercury by Amy Jo Burns

The Phoenix Crown by Katie Quinn

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

The Hunter by Tana French

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

The Women by Kristin Hannah

The Last Days of Cafe Lila by Donia Bijan

Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson

The Johnstown Flood, David McCullough

In the Woods, Tana French

Faithful Place, Tana French

We will meet at 12 pm on the 14th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

Join Zoom Meeting

Passcode:  516984

‬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

"Public Domain: Gettysburg, Civil War: Soldiers with Lincoln(?) by Matthew Brady (NARA)" by pingnews.com is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.

Gardner-Harvey Library Middmester Newsletter: An eclipse, words of encouragement, and a look at what is ahead

 

Feeling "taxed" on this Monday tax day? The library has you covered with information about our upcoming events, a look at Hollywood in Ohio, and a bit of joy for your spring semester. All in the Gardner-Harvey Library Middmester newsletter.

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

 

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 movies that were filmed in our area (shown above)!  You may also skim down our new materials list of items we added to the collection in March!  

We added 89 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 double shift : Spinoza and Marx on the politics of work / Jason Read
• To have and have not : energy in world history / Brian C. Black
• Beautiful people : my thirteen truths about disability / Melissa Blake
• Leadership from bad to worse : what happens when bad festers / Barbara Kellerman
• Leading from the margins : college leadership from unexpected places / Mary Dana Hinton
• Language city : the fight to preserve endangered mother tongues in New York / Ross Perlin
• Until August / Gabriel García Márquez
• Shakespeare's sisters : how women wrote the Renaissance / Ramie Targoff
• The hunter : a novel / Tana French
• Our moon : how Earth's celestial companion transformed the planet, guided evolution, and made us who we are / Rebecca Boyle

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 April Events at the Gardner-Harvey Library!

The Gardner-Harvey Library staff would like to take this time to invite you to participate in our April 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: Design Your Own Vinyl Stickers

Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 2-4pm

Have you ever wanted to design your own vinyl sticker? Now is your opportunity to create one with our Silhouette Cameo cutting Machine. Make a sticker for your car, laptop, window, or bike! Join us in the TEC Lab (room 125) from 2-4 PM.

 

Diversity Book Discussion - Author Visit: Nyama McCarthy-Brown and "Skin Colored Pointes"

Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 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!

 

Animals You Know of But Not About: Mollusca

Tuesday, April 9, 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 (room 014) and on Zoom at 4pm. 

Underground Academy: There is no AWAY!

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 4pm

Throwing that away is not a real thing. Join our Underground Academy as Janelle Allen, a visiting faculty member in Biological Sciences, helps us learn how there truly is no way to dispose of things and stuff. Join us in the SPACE (room 014) and on Zoom at 4 PM for this undercover story of composition, decomposition, and nutrient acquisition. Discover how we can be better stewards of our stuff to impact our human health and well-being. 

Discussion of Aldo Leopold’s “The Land Ethic”

Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 12-1pm

“When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” What is the relationship between people and the land? What responsibility, if any, do people have to their communities? How can we “use” the land with love and respect? Join us for discussion from 12 -1 PM in the TEC SPACE or on Zoom. 

National Park Talk: Crown Point State Historic Site/ Fort St. Fredric

Tuesday, April 30, 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 on Zoom and in the SPACE (room 014) at 4:30 PM. 

DEI Book Club - "Skin Colored Pointes: Interviews with Women of Color in Ballet"

Tuesday, April 30, 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!