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Fun.... :( Riley Childs Junior and Library Tech Manager Charlotte United Christian Academy +1 (704) 497-2086 Sent from my iPhone Please excuse mistakes > On Sep 28, 2013, at 10:08 AM, David Riordan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/library-of-congress-says-it-will-take-its-site-offline-if-govt-shuts-down/ > > This morning's latest terrifying news on the government shutdown front is > that unless Congress decides to (ahahahahahah) oh who am I kidding. > > Broadcast message from root October 1, 2013 00:00 > The system is going down for system halt NOW! > > Since the Library of Congress' web services are you know, won't have money, > they'll be taken offline along with the rest of LC. Compared to most of the > things that'll happen, this won't be so bad. However it could make a lot of > people on this list's lives a living hell on Tuesday morning when we start > getting system failures because an API relied on a lookup to id.loc.gov or > any other LC service. > > So brace your bosses and patrons. Because without loc.gov, things could get > weird. > > Seriously, if anyone knows more, please share. > > David Riordan | Product Manager, NYPL Labs | > @NYPL_Labs<http://twitter.com/nypl_labs> > [log in to unmask] | m 203.521.1222 | @riordan<http://twitter.com/riordan>