Hi!

Well, there has been progress. At least today they post the details on the
site, rather than returning nothing for the last 3 days.

When I attempted to phone them yesterday during business hours, I only got
voicemail.

73,
Dave

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Sent: Friday, 4 September 2015 9:11 a.m.
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Subject: Re: From Blind Bargains regarding the BARD Outage

Holy crap. Prolonged ... outage? Holy ... moly. This isn't good. They really
must fix things and I don't see the effort, not here and now.
Beth

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On 9/3/2015 1:48 PM, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:
> This is from Blind Bargains.
>
> Keep reading below their post for more about other databases from 
> various announcements that I have received this week at work.
>
> K5XU
>
>
>
>
>
> NLS BARD Service Remains Down, Part of Larger Library of Congress 
> Outage
>
> The National Library Service's BARD application is continuing a 
> prolonged outage, caused by network infrastructure at the Library of 
> Congress. This is preventing users from downloading books or searching 
> content on the online service. According to the website FCW, the 
> outage occurred after an equipment failure after a regularly scheduled 
> maintenance on August 29 in the library's James Madison building. 
> Other services, such as the copyright registration system are also 
> currently inoperable.
>
> End of Blind Bargains report.
>
> On a different subject, several other federal databases, including 
> those at the FCC, are undergoing upgrades that will continue at least 
> through the weekend.
>