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...that type of storage would be inconvenient for researchers as well, Feng says, adding that she is particularly proud of the fact that Widener is the only library of its size with open stacks: "I like to call this browsing feature the eighth wonder of the modern wold, and we'd like to preserve this special feature as long...
...Feng says she expects a change involving some tradeoff among the options by 1986, but adds that while each can contribute to finding more room for Harvard's comes, they all have certain disadvantages...
Preserving the vast collection also occupies a major part of the Library's concerns. "The danger to me, particularly, is that for a large and old collection like ours, it's hard to detect what's quietly deteriorating in the stacks," Feng says...
Computers are also gradually coming into the system, with a computerized acquisition system going on-line next year. But "we are slow, I don't mind admitting, in plunging in," Feng says. "We are very conservative in converting things to computer use. We have to be prudent because we are so old, large and complex. We'd rather let other institutions do the pioneering and get the glory--we like to learn from their mistakes...
Harvard began putting its card catalogue on a computer database in 1976, and created the Distributable Union Catalogue (DUC), a set of microfiches covering all books bought since the mid-70s. About 130 stations--with fiches and readers--have been installed around the system, but Feng says that while Harvard could completely computerize the system and have researchers call up catalogue information on a computer screen, officials feel the convenience doesn't justify the expense...