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The Library will be closed on Thursday, November 26 and Friday, November 27 in observance of Thanksgiving. Regular hours resume on Saturday, November 28, at 9 am.

Happy Thanksgiving from the staff of the Weill Cornell Medical Library.

Classes are free and open to all staff, faculty and students of NYP/WCMC, RUL, MSKCC and HSS. Schedule conflicts? Request a customized class or individual consultation at a time and place convenient to you. To register for a class or consultation, please use the online form, e-mail Education & Outreach at libeducation@med.cornell.edu or call 212-746-6061.

Available December Library Class Offerings:

• Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Searching - Tues. Dec. 1, 11:00am-12:30pm
• EndNote Basics - Thurs. Dec. 10, 10:30am-12:00pm
• Refworks - Mon. Dec. 21, 11:00am-12:30pm

PubMed has a new look but the way it searches and the results it retrieves remain unchanged. A short list of cosmetic changes includes:

• Previous tabs for Limits, Preview/Index, History and Details are now found under the Advanced search option
• Search button replaces the Go button
• Send to Printer is gone - use your browser's print options to print records
• Single Citation Matcher and Clinical Queries - once found on the sidebar - are now under PubMed Tools in the middle of the page
• AbstractPlus and Citation display formats are merged in a new Abstract format, with supplemental information such as Publication Types, MeSH Terms, Substances, and Grant Support available in expandable sections

Click here to see a full description of all aspects of the redesign.

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