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About 60 percent of Harvard's current holdings are stored in the library's database Harvard On-Line Library System (HOLLIS). An ambitious retrospective-conversion project, or "recon," aims to put all of Harvard's books on line.
And head of Houghton Library Richard Wendorf says that before the recon project, a number of Houghton books were only "minimally described" in card catalogues, which are now "fully catalogued" on HOLLIS. Errors in the on-line system are inevitable, Wendorf says, but Houghton has a "very knowledgeable staff" to...
Schoon says that readers ready to give up after fruitlessly flipping through card catalogues or hammering away at HOLLIS often approach her with a variety of requests.
Many librarians know how to pull up "special collections" that are fully listed to HOLLIS but accessible only through special key search words. For example, Houghton has a collection of about 250,000 pieces of sheet music which are arranged in specific categories.
Both Rodriquez and Raymond Joseph '94 wereinvolved in one of the incidents described in the"Plantation," flyer. The two students were walkingwith a group of friends near Hollis Hall when theywere stopped by police because, officers said,they were yelling loudly. Rodriquez and Joseph saythey were rapping, and not disturbing...