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As an undergraduate at Harvard, the Indiana native spent his time toying with antennae atop the roofs of Hollis Hall and Adams House. He was so interested in amateur radio that he helped to reestablish the long defunct Harvard Wireless Club.
The multi-million dollar project will bring HOLLIS users what library staff are calling “patron empowerment.”
“The HOLLIS system has more than 600,000 CJK records,” said Harvard-Yenching Librarian James K.M. Cheng. “It will be a tremendous help to faculty, students and scholars...to be able to search the new HOLLIS database with CJK vernacular characters...
In the 1990s, Robinson said, Harvard University Library realized the old HOLLIS system would not fit well with the digital library environment of the future. She said the old HOLLIS system, fully automated in the 1980s, has not only been hard to maintain but also is not a ?...
Robinson, who worked on the installation of the original HOLLIS system, said this transition differs from that of the mid-1980s—a time when the libraries were gradually moving from a punch card or non-automated system to an automated one.