Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-long fellowship awards an average of $16,000 for travel and research-related expenses and health and accident insurance premiums...
...fanfare for the system will be on hold until September 29, when an official opening party--balloons included--will be held in the Widener reading room. But HOLLIS has already begun to change the way Harvard students, faculty and staff conduct their research in what is the world's largest academic collection. The head of the University library system, Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba, calls HOLLIS "the most important step forward for the University library in many decades...
...HOLLIS is considered by its operators to be well-adapted to Harvard's needs, which library spokesman Barbara Mitchell describes as "extremely complicated and vast." The University's research facilities span 98 separate libraries. Widener alone holds more than 3 million volumes...
...lengthy saga of the system's development attests, HOLLIS has not come of age without difficulty. After falling behind other comparable research institutions--Harvard is the second-to-last Ivy League school to implement an on-line catalog--the University now has both a multimillion dollar stake in and a lengthy time commitment to insuring the new system's success...
Meanwhile, library officials are preparing for the short-term adjustments that will inevitably result as students and faculty begin using the new terminals. They say there is no way to predict how many people will use the newly installed computers or how the technology will affect the research habits of the community as a whole...