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That's what University librarians are finding out, as they finish up the first academic year in which the new $3 million Harvard OnLine Library Information System--HOLLIS--was implemented.
Despite the hoopla surrounding HOLLIS's official unveiling last September and an ambitious schedule for future improvements, professors and administrators say the introduction of the new technology will not do much to improve the impending crisis in Harvard's library system, the largest private collection in the world.
Because the University's rapidly expanding collection can no longer be housed entirely in on-campus facilities, the resulting financial and logistical problems have put librarians in a quandary which they say HOLLIS does little to resolve.
"HOLLIS has had a tremendous effect on us," says Heather E. Cole, head of Hilles and Lamont libraries. Circulation has increased 25 percent over last year, and she attributes the growth to HOLLIS's introduction.
"It's got to be because of HOLLIS," Cole says.