Some students said they missed the site's familiar incarnation.

"It's prettier, but not necessarily easier to navigate," Lisa J. Wilde '01 said of the new site.

Wilde said she uses the site mainly for its online resources like the Oxford English Dictionary.

"It takes more clicks to get there now," she said.

But Smith said that overall student and staff reactions have been positive. And librarians have been prepared to help students.

"We were able to install the system in the window between summer school ending and the law school term beginning, so librarians were able to become familiar with the system before large numbers of students returned," Smith said.

But this is not the end of the process; more change is in store. While Smith does not foresee a redesign of the site in the near future, changes to the HOLLIS library catalog are planned, according to the library website.

"As part of the HOLLIS II Project, Harvard will replace the HOLLIS Catalog with a new entirely web-based public catalog system. When HOLLIS II becomes available, HOLLIS Web will be discontinued," the site reads.