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Last-minute modifications to the system "had the unintended effect of dramatically slowing response times on the online catalog to an unacceptable level," according to a UCLA library web site...
...same time, UCLA's original system, ORION, is disabled due to Y2K difficulties. Since ORION could not recognize due-dates after December 1999, it could not keep track of circulation and had to be shut down...
UCLA is left without a library computer system until ORION2 comes on-line and administrators have not announced a new anticipated start date...
...November library bulletin, Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library Sidney Verba '53 said the Taos system remains "a potential system for us, but not one to which we can yet make a commitment...
...next-generation" system has ever been successfully installed at a major university. The Taos system is already installed and functional at many smaller libraries...