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And Cole says that when she met with some faculty about the new HOLLIS system, they "weren't concerned with subject searches, they wanted to know, would I please tell them if an 'x' Widener class would be moved."
And in the meantime, University administrators assert that HOLLIS will be able to accommodate any new technology developed to help meet the rapidly expanding needs of Harvard's system.
"The HOLLIS catalogue, I think, is state-of-the-art from the perspective of a kind of massive, very large-use catalogue," Verba says.
And although Verba says other libraries have had automatic catalogue systems--like HOLLIS--ahead of Harvard, he attributes this to the size of the University's collection, which makes it harder to computerize. "We have a huge collection and therefore it's not only more difficult to do an automatic...
But library administrators acknowledge that the full installation of HOLLIS is behind schedule. Although University administrators originally said barcoding of Widener's volumes would be completed by this fall, library officials now say the research library's system will not be coded until the middle of next year.