New Items Added to Rentschler Library in May

We’re adding many items to the collection each month! In May we added 142 books and ebooks to the collection.

Here are ten of the titles we added this month:

• American Comics: A History by Jeremy Dauber
• The Apollo Murders: A Novel by Chris Hadfield
• A Song Everlasting by Ha Jin
• Books Under Fire: A Hit List of Banned and Challenged Children’s Books by Pat R. Scales
• How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
• Innocent Witnesses: Childhood Memories of World War II by Marilyn Yalom
• I Would Leave Me if I Could.: A Collection of Poetry by Halsey
• Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History by Kyle Harper
• Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
• Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

If you’d like to see previous lists of new materials, you can check the New Items tag.

New Items Added to Rentschler Library in April

We’re adding many items to the collection each month! In April we added 87 books and ebooks to the collection.

Here are ten of the titles we added this month:

• An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo
• Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties by Marion Meade
• Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics by Margarita Engle
• The Day that Shook America: A Concise History of 9/11 by J. Samuel Walker
• The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
• Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor by Anna Qu
• Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher
• Palmares by Gayl Jones
• Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science by Maya J. Goldenberg
• What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language by Daniel Levin Becker

If you’d like to see previous lists of new materials, you can check the New Items tag.

We’re Hiring!

Are you a Miami student looking for an on campus job? The library wants to hear from you!

The library is hiring student assistants. Our student workers are responsible for checking materials in and out for patrons, maintaining the bookshelves, preparing items for circulation, and more. Our student workers are the first point of contact for patrons, so customer service experience is a plus.

Take a look at the job listing and submit your application!

Arab American Heritage Month

The library has a new display up for Arab American Heritage Month! Come take a look, and remember that all books on display can be checked out!

Connect with Us During National Library Week

Join us during National Library Week, April 3 – 9! National Library Week is an annual celebration highlighting the essential role libraries, librarians, and library workers play in transforming lives and strengthening our communities.

The first National Library Week was observed in 1958 with the theme “Wake Up and Read!” This year’s theme is “Connect with Your Library,” which promotes the idea that libraries are places to get connected to technology and to each other. The 2022 National Library Week Honorary Chair is comedian/writer Molly Shannon, whose mother was a librarian. “Libraries are places where communities connect—to things like broadband, computers, programs and classes, books, movies, video games, and more. But most importantly, libraries connect us to each other. Supporting National Library Week in this role allows me to connect to my mother’s memory and all the librarians out there.”

We offer so much more than books! In addition to the desktop computers in the library, we also have laptops and other equipment available to be checked out. Need a camera for a class project? We’ve got you covered. Forget your phone charger at home? Check one out at the front desk and charge your phone between classes. Need a scientific calculator for a math test? We’ve got those too. We also have ebooks and DVDs. If you want to take advantage of these services, you can come in and see us or contact us another way to ask questions.

The American Library Association wants to know what connections you’ve made thanks to your library. Did you find a great book? Were you able to use textbooks on reserve instead of buying them? Did we help you find a great resource for a paper? Post on Instagram, Twitter, or the I Love Libraries Facebook Page using the hashtag #MyLibrary. One randomly selected winner will receive a $100 Visa gift card! Please tag us in your posts so we can also see the ways we’ve helped you connect!