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Before we close this week, an addendum to my recent column on HOLLIS Plus: Thanks to several members of the University Library staff for pointing out that telnet, the software used to access many of HOLLIS Plus features, automatically quits when you press Control-X. Thus, if you are lost...
HOLLIS Plus also includes gateways to other institutional systems such as the Library of Congress gopher and ORBIS, the library tool used by students at a curtain college where football team we will destroy this coming weekend. (What kind of name is ORBIS, anyway!).
But card catalogs to faraway places are only useful to the extent that they can satisfy personal needs. If you have a paper due tomorrow, having HOLLIS Plus tell you that the one odd book you need is sitting on a shelf at UC Berkeley doesn't help much.
HOLLIS Plus acknowledges this fact by offering several services to "bring some of the library home" on a test basis.
Speaking of unintelligibility, the HOLLIS Plus databases do not share a common exit procedure, leaving you to try out different commands until you find the right one. If you find yourself lost in the system, try the commands "quit," "exit," "ex," "q" and "bye". Or try pressing the Escape key...