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Department of Government, Littauer Center North Yard, GKing@Harvard.Edu, http://GKing.Harvard.Edu, 617-495-2027. My thanks to Nancy Cline, Dale Flecker, Barbara Halporn, Ned Keenan, and Sidney Verba for comments on an earlier version. 
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...data.
HCL includes these libraries: Widener, Cabot Science, Fine Arts, Harvard-Yenching, Hilles, Houghton, Kummel Library of the Geological Sciences, Lamont, Littauer, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music, and Tozzer. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) includes over 40 independent libraries outside of the HCL system, such as the libraries in the natural and physical sciences controlled by individual departments. A list of all 54 FAS libraries can be found at http://hul.harvard.edu/libinfo/faculty/fas.html. 
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...located.
The sections of the Widener book selection division include American and English; East, South, and Southeast Asia; Latin America, Spanish, and Portuguese; French and Italian; German and Dutch; Scandinavian; Sub-Sahara African. In addition, sections on Judaica, the Middle East, and Slavic are grouped separately under a separate department, the main difference being that they also have responsibility for cataloging. Modern Greek is an additional separate department; the Map room and Government Documents are Widener collections. 
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...involved.)
Organizing the library's massive book buying effort according to the distribution of book suppliers would appear to reduce transaction costs. Similarly, when most people do personal chores, they also reduce transaction costs by going to the supermarket and buying everything needed, and then going to the clothing store to buy anything required there. Other plausible organizations of the library's buying, such as by disciplinary category, are might be less efficient - as it would be for individuals to buy everything they need to eat and wear on Thursday, and then to make a separate trip to the supermarket and clothing store to meet all their needs for Friday. However, as reasonable as this justification may seem, other major libraries follow a diverse range of this and other organizing principles. 
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...HOLLIS.
HOLLIS, the Harvard On-Line library Information System, is available at telnet://Hollis.Harvard.Edu. It is very fast, but has a primitive and relatively unfriendly user interface. HOLLIS also includes modules, not directly available to the public, for managing the library's book purchasing, management, and circulation functions. HOLLIS Plus is a web site with a growing collection of networked electronic resources provided by a variety of suppliers; it is available at http://hplus.harvard.edu. The central administration's Harvard University Library (HUL) office, which manages HOLLIS and HOLLIS Plus, plans to replace both with HOLLIS II by approximately January of 1999. Information on HOLLIS II plans can be found at http://hul.harvard.edu/hollis2/. 
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...(ERC).
Current members of the ERC include Michael Blake, Cabot Reference; Ellen Cohen, HCL Director of Financial Services; Rod Goins, Automation Coordinator for HCL; Ann-Marie Breaux, Technical Services, Lamont Library and ERC Coordinator; Michael Fitzgerald, Electronic Texts Librarian, Widener and ERC Chair; Steve Love, Reference, Hilles; Judy Warnement, Librarian, Botany Libraries; Lynne Schmelz, FAS Science Libraries Coordinator, Librarian Cabot and Tozzer. 
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...budget.
The electronic resources fund does not include some expenditures by the departmental science libraries (often as organized by Cabot), despite the fact that some science databases are partly paid for by this fund. Science library decisions about networked resource purchases are also made centrally in informal meetings of the science library staffs, but because of the close relationship between these libraries and their constituents there appears to be little ambiguity or potential for disagreement about priorities and preferences. Unfortunately, coordination in purchasing electronic (and nonelectronic) resources for the physical and natural sciences appears to be much more difficult than in the humanities and social sciences because of the lack of a centralized science library analogous to Widener. 
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...libraries.
Materials on the HCL local area network presently include the Social Sciences Citation Index; US Statistical Abstracts; America: History and Life; Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Gale's Dictionary of Quotations. 
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...index.
The current policy of HUL is that to be included in HOLLIS Plus, a networked resource must be of scholarly interest to a broad segment of the Harvard community, perform reasonably reliably, and have an acceptable interface. HOLLIS Plus also includes materials produced by a Harvard unit or funded by a Harvard library. 
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Gary King
Fri Dec 6 11:10:20 EST 1996