Outreach On A Stick

The Minnesota State Fair, often referred to as the “Great Minnesota Get-Together,” is one of the most popular late summer destinations in the region. The fair attracts nearly 2 million guests annually over the twelve days leading up to and through Labor Day.   One fun aspect about the fair is how many foods can be devised to be eaten “on a stick” (mac ‘n cheese or spaghetti & meatballs on a stick anyone?).   The Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Minnesota has had a presence at the Minnesota State Fair in one form or another since the mid-2000.    For the past several years we have exhibited for a full day in the University of Minnesota building that is located on the fair grounds.   The exhibit usually features “healthy” information resources freely available from the National Library of Medicine as well as resources and services available to the public at the Bio-Medical Library.   Since 2014, we have featured an iPad flashcard app quiz where participants can try their luck at guessing the true or false of health fact statements (see MLA 2017 poster Health Fact Or Fiction: Utilizing an iPad Flashcard App to Engage and Educate Fair Attendees for more information on the iPad quiz). This year we were told we had an expanded area and so brainstormed what else we could do and came up with an anatomical theme – we brought some of our anatomical models and from the Wangensteen History of Medicine Library, a reproduction of page from an o...
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