Abbreviated enews this month: Happy Holidays!
HSL and Friends' Café Hours: Changes and closures between Dec 14 and Jan 1
Classes and Events
Get Involved!
December Health Awareness Observances

HSL HOURS:

The library will be closed on Monday, Dec 24 and Tuesday, Dec 25 for Christmas and Tuesday, Jan 1 for New Year's Day. For the detailed schedule of building hours from Friday, Dec 14 through Wednesday, Jan 2, please visit: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/AboutLib/GeneralInfo/hours.cfm

Friends' Café hours: Monday-Thursday 7:30 am - 6 pm; Friday 7:30 am - 7 pm; Sunday 1:30-5:30 pm. (Café will be closed for the holidays from Saturday, Dec 22 and resume normal hours Wednesday, Jan 2.) Visit website for updates: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/AboutLib/Building/cafe.cfm

Although reference help is not always available when the building is open, you can post a question to Ask-A-Librarian and receive a response within 24 hours on nights and weekends and generally within a few hours between 8 am and 5 pm on weekdays: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/asklib

CLASSES AND EVENTS

No classes are scheduled in December. For more information or to register for HSL classes, go to: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Classes/classregistration.cfm

Need help with PubMed, EndNote, RefWorks or other library databases and software? Request a one-on-one consultation from this link: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/AskLib/consult.cfm Or use our quick help tips at http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Guides/guides.cfm

History of Medicine (Bullitt Club) speaker Dec 11th at Duke

The next joint meeting of the UNC Bullitt History of Medicine Club and the Duke Trent History of Medicine Society will be Tuesday, Dec 11 at the Duke University Medical Center Library. Please join us in the library's History of Medicine Reading Room (#102) at 5:30 pm for a light buffet dinner followed by a presentation at 6:00pm. Dr. Peter English, Professor of History and Pediatrics at Duke, will give a talk entitled, "A History of Childhood Obesity in the United States."

For more information on the Bullitt Club and other meetings for 2007-2008, please visit the Bullitt Club website at http://www.med.unc.edu/bhomc For directions to the Duke University Medical Center Library, see http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/about/direct.html

GET INVOLVED!

The Health Sciences Library staff really appreciates your input and contributions. Three tangible ways to provide support and input today are:

• Join Friends of the Library
  Student memberships begin at $25: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Friends/Membership/studentmemform.pdf and Basic membership at $50: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Friends/membership/giftform.pdf
• Give a monetary gift to the Library
  Whether you are trying to make a Dec 31 tax deadline or not, you may specify that it be designated for these endowments and funds: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Friends/endowmentsandfunds.cfm Also consider naming opportunities for other endowments and funds: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Friends/namingopportunities.cfm
• Offer a suggestion
  For suggestions unrelated to the website, the library also has an online suggestion box: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/AboutLib/Staff/suggestionbox.cfm as well as a paper form and box on the first floor of HSL between the MacNider entrance door and the User Services desk.

December is…

• World AIDS Day (Dec 1)
• National Aplastic Anemia and MDS Awareness Week (Dec 1-7)
  Choose Bone Marrow Diseases in NC Health Info
• National Handwashing Awareness Week-Handwashing Helps Prevent MRSA and Flu! (Dec 2-8)

For information about local health care services, programs, and providers for these health issues, see NC Health Info at: http://nchealthinfo.org

HSL E-NEWS is a monthly publication of the UNC-Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library. For more information on this publication, contact Susan Keesee, Communications Coordinator: keesee@email.unc.edu, 919-966-0944