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.
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On 9/3/2015 1:48 PM, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:
> This is from Blind Bargains.
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> Keep reading below their post for more about other databases from
> various announcements that I have received this week at work.
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> K5XU
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> NLS BARD Service Remains Down, Part of Larger Library of Congress Outage
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> 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.
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> End of Blind Bargains report.
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> On a different subject, several other federal databases, including
> those at the FCC, are undergoing upgrades that will continue at least
> through the weekend.
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