Fun....  :(

Riley Childs
Junior and Library Tech Manager 
Charlotte United Christian Academy
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> 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.
> 
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