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Beginning July 1, 2009 the Library Information Desk will be staffed from 10AM - 5PM, Monday - Friday. While you may not see a person sitting at the desk at other hours, we're still available to answer your reference questions. Stop by the Circulation Desk and ask if you can have an immediate consultation or leave us a paper or electronic question and we will respond as fast as possible, usually within a few hours. Late Friday, weekend or holiday questions will be read the morning of the next business day. Our pledge is to leave no question unanswered.

The Library will be closed on Friday, July 3rd and Saturday, July 4th, in observance of Independence Day. Regular hours will resume on Sunday, July 5th at noon.

Treat yourself to the observations of Dr. Pauline Chen in her New York Times article Taking Time for the Self on the Path to Becoming a Doctor. Achieving a sense of balance in life may increase one's capacity to be an empathic, caring and compassionate provider and may decrease physician burnout.

Be sure to catch the latest feature presentation on our display screen -- a video starring librarians Helen-Ann Brown Epstein, Pattie Mongelia, Diana Delgado and Paul Albert teaching first year students Evidence Based Medicine searching techniques, with Public Health professors Dr. Madelon Finkel, Dr. Abraham Bornstein and Chairman Dr. Alvin Mushlin.

Come into the Library to view it on the big screen, or click on the picture below to view it right now on YouTube.

If you want to learn more about EBM, come to the Library's Information Services Desk. Or, you can call us at 212-746-6055, or email us at infodesk@med.cornell.edu.

The CDC maintains a regularly maintained "situation update" for the latest information on swine flu.

The following resources are available for those who want to stay up to date with news and research on swine flu:

• NewYork-Presbyterian guidance for staff members on swine flu
• New York City Department of Health
• Steps required to confirm suspected cases of swine flu - from New York City Health Department
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's dedicated swine flu page
• CDC's Twitter feed - contains updates on the Swine Flu
• FAQs about swine flu - from WebMD
• Recent papers on swine flu added to MEDLINE
• Links to resources about swine flu - from the National Library of Medicine