In addition to its physical renovations over the summer, Harvard also underwent some virtual changes. The HOLLIS website, formerly known as HOLLIS Plus, has a brand-new look and an increased number of resources.

HOLLIS stands for "Harvard OnLine Library Information System."

Try the old website, and a sleek new page announces, "HOLLIS Plus is no longer in service. Its replacement, HOLLIS, can be found at http://lib.harvard.edu."

According to Caren E. Smith, development team manager at the Office for Information Systems, "The URL was changed from 'hplus' in part to reflect the external name change [the system is no longer called HOLLIS Plus], but also to provide a standard name."

The website changes often as resources are added monthly, Smith said, but this summer brought with it a whole new look as well as a new address for the resource.

The URL change was also intended to help Harvard meet the standards developing among universities.

"At more and more universities, the library site is called 'lib.university.edu' or 'library.university.edu', and either of these works for HOLLIS," Smith said.

The site has gone an extensive front-end design change. Instead of black text on a white background with blue links, the simplest and most common look, especially for beginning sites, HOLLIS now comes in brown and crimson, with useful buttons and pull-down menus at the top and a consistent seal on all pages.