Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bottom line is the same," he said. "There is a common sense of mission...
Furthermore, Lewis K. Cherot '90 said he thought this year's lines were even slower than last year's, adding that the University "should have spent the money on two feeding lines to cut out the waiting and kept our kitchen." Like all houses, Eliot has only one service line...
...state-of-the-art." Whatever the state of the art is, it is not HOLLIS. HOLLIS cannot do keyword searching; HOLLIS cannot search both the "Older Widener" and Union Catalogs at the same time; there is no provision in HOLLIS for saving selections for later printout (although one may line up for a terminal with a connected printer); HOLLIS has only primitive logic capabilities to narrow searches. Library officials have said that these features are on the way--but they're not here...
...which do not have keyboards organized in the manner of the commonly accepted industry standards. Anyone used to an IBM PC or an Apple Macintosh will be surprised to find that the key she expects to delete the previous character does not do so. And there is no on-line help explaining the keyboard (what do these extra keys DO!?). Also, HOLLIS does not take into account what is surely the most common task dial-in users will be performing with the system; to wit, dial-in users will be logging a transcript of their session to a file...
...short, what really bugs me is not necessarily the capabilities of the system, but the attitude of the developers that it is "state of the art." They tell us that they can put 150,000 entries on line per year. With 8,000,000 more volumes to go, that's about 50 years. Let's be real...