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!
Very jealous of this collection, as I have only one lone beer yeast. It's a lovely group of diseases and pestilence!
ReplyDeleteAnd that's just the new additions and a photo I took of a some of them. The Library is only missing maybe three from the whole collection!
ReplyDeleteI have the GIGANTIC sized Common Cold, and just ordered Rabies. There are so many, its hard to choose. I am planning to get athlete's foot next for my friend who runs marathons!
ReplyDeleteEveryone really needs to get one of these, www.giantmicrobes.com.