Just in case anyone is experiencing difficulty with the British Library servers - there's a reason for it and it should be temporary.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Lowery, John</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:John.Lowery@bl.uk">John.Lowery@bl.uk</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:20 AM<br>Subject: Access to British Library Z39.50 servers<br>To: "Lowery, John" <<a href="mailto:John.Lowery@bl.uk">John.Lowery@bl.uk</a>><br>Cc: "Tiplady, John" <<a href="mailto:John.Tiplady@bl.uk">John.Tiplady@bl.uk</a>><br>
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<div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Due to problems with our servers you may be experiencing intermittent connection problems to our MARC Z39.50 service. We are currently working on upgrading our servers and hope to have this work completed in the next 2 – 3 weeks.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Please accept our apologies for this problem and thank you for your patience while we resolve the problem.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Regards</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">John</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><hr align="left" noshade size="2" style="color:#9D9DA1" width="720">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">John Lowery</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><br></span></b><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:#666666">Online Systems Analyst</span></b><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:#666666"><br>
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