Using Harvard's HOLLIS
A very brief guide (HOLLIS provides much
more detail in its HELP files, but this should be enough to get
you started)
A. LOGIN
From the Liberty menu, choose 5. Liberty Functions and then 1.
UNIX (you will see a $ prompt)
At $, type telnet hollis.harvard.edu
at VE RI TAS logo, type hollis and <ENTER>
at WELCOME TO HOLLIS type hu for the Union Catalog
B. SEARCH
- kw for a keyword search (kw apoptosis)
- ti for a title search (ti ontogeny and phylogeny)
- au for an author search (au darwin, charles)
- su for a Library of Congress Subject Heading search (su
spiders--ecology)
C. MOVING AROUND
HOLLIS has several forms of display: an individual record appears in
the SHORT form unless you type DISPLAY LONG ( d l will do) to see the
full record.
A kw search with more than one 'hit' is presented as an INDEX display,
most recent items first. Examine a record by typing its number; return to
the INDEX display by typing i .
A su search with more than 16 hits will be presented as a GUIDE display
of subject headings; if you type a number, you will see the INDEX
display, with short titles. To return to the GUIDE display type the
letter g .
You can see MORE of a display by typing m ; you can move
backwards in a display by typing ba . If you are looking at a
record and want to move to the next in a set, type n .
To examine other records in a given LC subject heading, type
trace *s# , where # is the number of the subject heading.
D. TO E-MAIL HOLLIS RECORDS
type stor for each you
want to have sent, and then type send when you have all you
want.
You'll be prompted for the format you prefer and for your e-mail address.
E. TO EXIT FROM HOLLIS and return to Liberty
hold down the
<CONTROL>
key and type ] (right bracket); at the telnet> prompt, type
quit and <ENTER> and you will be returned to the Liberty $
prompt.