Word: computerizes
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The last major change in the lottery occurred in spring 1986, when freshmen were for the first time told their lottery numbers before having to hand in their house choices. Under the current system, after turning in their rooming forms, students receive a random, computer-generated group number and then...
Under a plan scheduled to be completed by September, students will be able to search for books by subject, author, title and key word from a personal computer, he said. The University has spent more than $400,000 and several years to make the catalogues accessible to students.
Ronald A. Orcutt, associate director of OIT, said the project was part of a plan to make University-wide improvements available to undergraduates. "The world we have to access is personal computer-based and dominated by Macintoshes," he said. "We want to respond to that."
An official at Widner Library said that students have been frustrated in the past by the inaccessibility of libraries such as Houghton, YenChing and the Schlesinger. But University officials said after the DUC becomes on-line, Harvard will try to expand the number of card catalogues accessible by computer.
Austin S. Lin '89, a student who has used other computer cataloging systems at Harvard, said the direct room link-up is a welcome change. "It's about time that something like this was done," said the Dunster House resident. "It's really silly for people still to be flipping...