WorksheetsLTS Team Appreciation Trivia
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 6mins
When was the acronym HOLLIS (Harvard OnLine Library Information System) coined?
1972
1988
1995
2002
What is Alma?
A river in the Crimea, near which was fought a great battle on September 20, 1854, between the Russian and Anglo-French armies; the Russians were defeated with great loss.
An Egyptian singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment or as a professional mourner.
One of two prophets, the Elder and the Younger, and a book in the Book of Mormon.
All of the above
A unified library services platform in the world, managing print, electronic, and digital materials in a single interface.
Which database was never hosted in HOLLIS?
Anthropological Literature
FungiDB
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)
Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)
Which is not a real headline?
“Red Sox Win 1 in a Row”
“Fruit Flies Descend on Lamont Cafe”
“Harvard Beats Yale 29-29”
"Harvard Plans Cooperation with Itself"
Who is our colleague with the longest tenure at LTS and its predecessors?
Julie
Laura
Rei
Robin
What is your favorite piece of technical debt at LTS?
ListView
ListView (the other one)
OLIVIA Servlet
AMS
Five options are not enough to list all of my favorites!
Which of the following animals has NOT made an appearance on #lts-pets?
A hedgehog
A dog
A bird
A gecko
Which of these is NOT in Harvard Library’s collection of materials?
An original edition of the Gutenberg Bible
George Washington’s copy of the Declaration of Independence
A book bound in human skin
A map of the city of Springfield from The Simpsons
The finding aid system OASIS once used an animated gif of this animal to indicate a request was processing
A cat casually licking its paw
A dung beetle struggling to roll a… ball… up a hill
A camel strolling through the desert
A hawk gliding back and forth across the screen
Before it was called LTS (or OIS) what was the name of the first “IT department” Harvard’s libraries ever had?
Library Data Entry
HCL Automation
HUL Technical Information Group
Digital Books Department
Which piece of anatomy is associated with the annual rowing regatta held on the Charles River?
Nose
Tongue
Lips
Head
Knuckle
VIA was the name of the Library’s first image search. What did it stand for?
Very Important Archives
Visually Intriguing Application
Virtual Image Aggregator
Visual Information Access
What does the term TOC mean related to HOLLIS?
Table of Contents
Total Organic Carbon
Theory of Constraints
Tournament Of Champions
Harry Elkins Widener, honored as the namesake of the Widener Library, tragically perished in which vessel?
the Mayflower
the Titanic
the Hindenburg
the Space Shuttle Challenger
the Lusitania
What is the HOLLIS CDI?
Capacitive Discharge Ignition
California Department of Insurance
Central Discovery Index
Chronic Disease and Injury
What does our team’s acronym, LTS, stand for?
Long Term Stability
Lancaster Theological Seminary
Library Technology Services
Laura’s Technology Services
