Re: [CatSIG] Library of Congress website shut down

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From: Catherine Amey

Kia ora

At the National Library of New Zealand we've noticed that the Library of Congress catalogue etc is no longer available :-(

http://www.loc.gov/home2/shutdown-message.html

Due to the temporary shutdown of the federal government, the Library of Congress is closed to the public and researchers beginning October 1, 2013 until further notice. All public events are cancelled and web sites are inaccessible except the legislative information sites THOMAS.gov and beta.congress.gov.

However, the Marc standards are still accessible through a mirror site - see email below forwarded from Autocat

Cheers Catherine

-----Original Message----- From: AUTOCAT [mailto:AUTOCAT@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Tennant,Roy Sent: Tuesday, 1 October 2013 11:07 a.m. To: AUTOCAT@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Subject: [ACAT] Temporary MARC documentation location

FYI, Code4Lib to the rescue (as seen on that mailing list). Roy

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Dan Scott mailto:denials@gmail.com> wrote: I've temporarily set up mirrors at:

* http://stuff.coffeecode.net/www.loc.gov/marc/ (MARC21 docs) * http://stuff.coffeecode.net/www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/ (standards documentation)

Hopefully these won't be necessary for long, or at all :/

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