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around the world seem to be inordinately found of cutesy,

anthropomorphized acronyms for their machines (not far from Harvard, the

librarians at Brandeis University came up with Library On-Line User

Information Service, or Louis; MIT has Barton).

If you want to do some general browsing, probably the best bet on the

Harvard system is to choose HU, which gets you access to their main

holdings, including those of its medical libraries. Choose that, and you’ll

see this:

THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNION CATALOG

To begin a search, select a search option from the list below and type its

code on the command line. Use either upper or lower case.

AU Author search

TI Title search

SU Subject search

ME Medical subject search

KEYWORD Keyword search options

CALL Call number search options

OTHER Other search options

For information on the contents of the Union Catalog, type HELP.

To exit the Union Catalog, type QUIT.

A search can be entered on the COMMAND line of any screen.

ALWAYS PRESS THE ENTER OR RETURN KEY AFTER TYPING YOUR COMMAND.

Say you want to see if Harvard has shed the starchy legacy of the

Puritans, who founded the school. Why not see if they have “The Joy of

Sex” somewhere in their stacks? Type

TI Joy of Sex

and hit enter. This comes up:

HU: YOUR SEARCH RETRIEVED NO ITEMS. Enter new command or HELP. You typed:

TI JOY OF SEX

ALWAYS PRESS THE ENTER OR RETURN KEY AFTER TYPING YOUR COMMAND.

OPTIONS: FIND START – search options HELP

QUIT – exit database

COMMAND?

Oh, well! Do they have anything that mentions “sex” in the title? Try

another TI search, but this time just: TI sex. You get:

HU GUIDE: SUMMARY OF SEARCH RESULTS 2086 items retrieved by your search:

FIND TI SEX

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1 SEX

2 SEX A

823 SEXA

827 SEXBO

831 SEXCE

833 SEXDR

834 SEXE

879 SEXIE

928 SEXJA

929 SEXLE

930 SEXO

965 SEXPI

968 SEXT

1280 SEXUA

2084 SEXWA

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