Summer Orientations

The Summer is a busy time for many reasons. One of those is the student orientations that we participate in at many of our campuses. For some we set up a booth that shows the different resources in the Library and answer questions about the Library that students or parents might have. For other orientations, we provide organized tours of the Library. This has been useful to orient the students to the Library and let them know that we are friendly people who they can come and chat to if they have questions. Here are some photos of the displays that were up during the orientations - put together by Gail G.!

Giant Microbes

The Library has been collecting and lending out Giant Microbes for a while now. For those of you who haven't heard of them, they are stuffed microbes of diseases such as the common cold, black death, HIV and now they have critters, such as the book worm and maggot. These have proved to be extremely popular and have been used in all sorts of creative and innovative way by students and faculty alike. The Library staff also particularly like to use them in our orientation sessions. The phrase "The Library has Ebola" always being a sure way to capture the attention of the crowd! This summer we have added the following:

Cavity
Yogurt
Bird flu
Swine flu
Nerve cell
Platelet
Amoeba
West Nile
Maggot
Acidophilus
Copecode
HPV
Listeria
Measles
Rubella
Waterbear
Leishmania

I heard a great story about the rabies giantmicrobe being used in a class presentation on rabies. The student asked the prof how hard it was to catch rabies and when the prof said it was very hard, the student tossed the rabies giantmicrobe at the prof who then caught it! If you have any stories like that, please share!