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...graduate student in the Department of English and American Literature and Language, as well as a part-time programmer for OIT and for Harvard Computer Services at the Science Center, I read Susan Glasser's excellent article [9/14/88, page 13] on the new HOLLIS system with great interest. HOLLIS is terriffic; I will be using it all the time. I must take issue, however, with some of the boosterism reflected bvy remarks by library officials suggesting that the system is "absolutely state-of-the-art." Whatever the state of the art is, it is not HOLLIS. HOLLIS cannot do keyword...
Glasser writes that Library officials confess "that there is no way to predict how many people will use the newly installed terminals or how the technology will affect the research habits of the community as a whole." Why not? Didn't the staff at OIT check with other universities that have been using this kind of new-fangled technology for the last ten years...
...cursor for every display of cataloging information! (It could be scrolling the information instead.) What this means is that anyone seeking to print collected displays will have to edit the file first to get rid of the cursor-moving escape sequences. What gives? After years of modifying software OIT had to get from another university, can't the most trivial ease-of-use features be integrated into the system...
...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, OIT...
Ronald A. Orcutt, associate director of OIT, said the project was part of a plan to make University-wide improvements available to undergraduates. "The world we have to access is personal computer-based and dominated by Macintoshes," he said. "We want to respond to that...