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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...
According to a May article in The New Yorker magazine, the margin of error in the "recon" process is "less than one percent." By this account, about 50,000 records out of five million will be incorrect...
Through a "recon," or "retrospective conversion," project, De Gennaro hopes to move all of the library's listings from the card catalog to the HOLLS database. Currently, only about one-third of Widener's holdings are on HOLLIS, he says...
Simonber added that the Times Square project involves "massive recon- struction" that needs a strong administrator. Blumenfeld served as Assistant Secretary of the Army under former President Carter...
...newest addition in a department of four senior and three junior professors, Rubin stresses the importance of "recon-structing the bridges" that Professors C. Frederick Mosteller and William G. Kochran built at the department's inception 25 years...