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.

-- 
Mike Duke, K5XU