Hi, Various online services of the Library of Congress will be down for maintenance this weekend, including: - catalog.loc.gov - id.loc.gov - the LC Z39.50 server

From their announcement (http://z3950.loc.gov/vwebv/ui/en_US/htdocs/help/):

Library of Congress online catalogs and collections search systems will NOT be available from 5:00pm on Friday, August 28 until 6:00am on Monday, August 31 due to a planned power outage for essential maintenance. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org