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Elmira College

I also work at Elmira College as one of the weekend Reference Librarians. There are four of us who cover the Research Help Desk (as it is now called) at the college on Friday-Sunday from Labor Day weekend to Memorial Day weekend. Elmira subscribe to some great databases. Their home page is http://www.elmira.edu/academics/library.shtml. I will be at the college tomorrow night. I am hoping for a snow day from school, we are expecting 3-6" of snow tomorrow!

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