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With last week's public introduction of the long-awaited computerized library catalog system, the University's extensive network of libraries finally caught up with the rest of the bibliographic world...
Sleek, new computer terminals have entirely replaced the wooden card catalogs in the two principal undergraduate libraries--Lamont and Hilles--and even Widener's old-fashioned card catalogs will become more and more obsolete as all new acquisitions go directly into the new computer system. HOLLIS, which library officials describe as "absolutely state of the art," also subsumes the microfiche-based Distributable Union Catalog, which listed all library acquisitions since...
...lengthy saga of the system's development attests, HOLLIS has not come of age without difficulty. After falling behind other comparable research institutions--Harvard is the second-to-last Ivy League school to implement an on-line catalog--the University now has both a multimillion dollar stake in and a lengthy time commitment to insuring the new system's success...
...afternoon last week, seven of the eight Widener terminals were occupied by graduate students getting their first crack at Harvard's on-line catalog. They said that HOLLIS seemed like a good idea. "It's much faster than before," said a graduate student in East Asian Languages who refused to give his name. "But I'm not sure I can use it. There must be a lot of exciting things you can do with...
...case could be a turning point in the fortunes of Wall Street's most go- getter firm, the financing machine that drove much of the corporate raiding of the roaring 1980s. The complaint charged Milken and Drexel with a whole catalog of offenses, including fraud against the firm's own clients, insider trading, the "parking" of stocks to conceal their true ownership, and the destruction of accounting records to cover up the transgressions...