Harvard OnLine Library Information System (HOLLIS Plus)

This section introduces some of the important online libraries, online encyclopedia, and online dictionaries. The introduction to the online libraries will be confined to those of the Harvard University. But online dictionaries and encylopedia will be located in different parts of the world.

• University Library System of The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Online Encyclopedia
• Online Dictionaries
• Online libaries at Harvard University
• Harvard-Yenching Library
• Various East Asian Resources of Interest

Online Encyclopedia 
Britannica On-line Searchable text of the entire 32-volumne Encyclopedia
(Subscription required. Good to ask your home university to subscribe if not already done so.)
Britannica Internet GuideNew Internet guide to quality Web sites, selected and rated by Britannica editors. 14 Preview categories. Searchable, user-friendly graphical interface.

Online Dictionaries
Free Online Dictionary of Computing
The Purdue University Virtual Reference Desk
including:

• Dictionaries, Thesauri, Acronyms
• Information Technology Selected documents on planning for and using Information Technology.
• Maps & Travel Information
• Periodic Tables and Weights & Measures
• Phone Books & Area Codes
• Selected Indiana Documents
• Selected U.S. Documents
• Time & Date
• ZIP, & International Country Codes
• Other Reference Sources

The Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing and the BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms are excellent quick reference tools for computer terms. In addition, there are acronym dictionaries and thesauri. such as Roget's Thesaurus. There are also easy reference tools for quotations and slangs. The Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations gives instant access to famous quotations and they can be displayed either in alphabetical order or chronological order. The site is a real treasure for self-access learning.
Online libaries at Harvard University
According to the Harvard University Publications Office's Guide to the Harvard University Library (1996), “The Harvard University Library, dating from 1638, is the oldest library in the United States and the largest university library in the world. It now contains more than 13 million volumes, in addition to manuscripts, microforms, maps, photographs, and other materials. The collections are housed in over 90 libraries, most located in Cambridge and Boston, but others as distant as Washington, DC and Florence, Italy.
This is only a summary description of a small part of the library collections. Printed guides to particular libraries and collections are available. All the following libraries have their own web pages and offer additional services such as tours and bibliographic instruction.

• Harvard-Yenching Library. East Asian languages amd studies for both undergraduate and graduates courses.
• Cabot Science Library. For undergraduate sciences
• Harvard College Library . Main library, including Widener the biggest library of the University Library System.
• Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
• Lamont Library mainly for undergraduates.
• Littauer Library . Economics and government studies
• Harvard Environmental Resources On-Line
• Harvard Map Collection. Maps.
• Wolbach Library for Astrophysics
• The Schlesinger Library (Radcliffe College)Library on history of women in America.
• HOLLIS Plus (Harvard Online Library Information System