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Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, who oversees Harvard's 11-million volume system, said that the new Harvard OnLine Library Information System (HOLLIS) is but the first step in what will be a major technological overhaul of the library system. He added, however, that future innovations are still a...
Harvard took more than eight years to develop the HOLLIS system, while schoolssuch as Stanford University have been on-line foras long as five years.
But, although Verba acknowledged that theUniversity took a long time to develop HOLLIS, hesaid the new computer system will be the lynchpinin his plans to make new and more sophisticatedtechnology available to Harvard's thousands oflibrary-goers.
"HOLLIS is going to serve as the gateway toother places where the new electronic materialswill be stored," Verba said. "More and more atHarvard we will be finding things are published inelectronic forms--and HOLLIS will be the way todeal with the explosion."
Although HOLLIS--the Harvard OnLine Library Information System--has been operating since Labor Day, yesterday's official grand opening gave library administrators and officials a chance to publicly praise the new $3 million computer card catalog system.