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Eight years in the making, the much heralded HOLLIS (Harvard On-Line Library Information System) computer system made its public debut a week ago, as students and faculty first witnessed blinking cursors on eight terminals in Widener Library.
The fanfare for the system will be on hold until September 29, when an official opening party--balloons included--will be held in the Widener reading room. But HOLLIS has already begun to change the way Harvard students, faculty and staff conduct their research in what is the world's...
Sleek, new computer terminals have entirely replaced the wooden card catalogs in the two principal undergraduate libraries--Lamont and Hilles--and even Widener's old-fashioned card catalogs will become more and more obsolete as all new acquisitions go directly into the new computer system. HOLLIS, which library officials describe...
Without ever venturing to any of the 32 Harvard libraries that now offer public access to HOLLIS, computer owners will be able to compile and save listings from the 3 million records currently available on the system. And their access will only improve. Although the HOLLIS listings are far from...
One afternoon last week, seven of the eight Widener terminals were occupied by graduate students getting their first crack at Harvard's on-line catalog. They said that HOLLIS seemed like a good idea. "It's much faster than before," said a graduate student in East Asian Languages who refused...