[Dtb-talk] BARD Outage and Magazines on Cartridge

[David Andrews]

>
>Begin forwarded message: > From: "WTBBL" 
><wtbbl at sos.wa.gov> > Date: September 3, 2015 at 
>10:30:40 PDT > To: MICHAEL  FREEMAN 
><k7uij at panix.com> > Subject: [wtbbl] BARD Outage 
>and Magazines on Cartridge > Reply-To: 
>"Washington Talking Book & Braille Library" 
><wtbbl at list.statelib.wa.gov> > > NLS has 
>provided the following update on the ongoing 
>BARD system outage. Please > contact WTBBL at 
>(800) 542-0866 or wtbbl at sos.wa.gov if you have 
>questions. > ---- > > Because of continuing 
>issues with the Library of Congress (LC) data 
>center, patrons will > not receive Magazines on 
>Cartridge (MOC) this week. > > Last weekend, the 
>LC performed an important annual data center 
>maintenance task, > which required BARD to go 
>offline for the weekend. When operations were 
>restored on > Sunday, the data center had a 
>major equipment failure that affected many of 
>the LC’s > systems. This included BARD, which 
>remains offline. > > LC IT staff and the 
>equipment vendor continue to work on restoring 
>the systems and > bringing back-ups online. We 
>do not have an estimate as to when BARD will 
>be > available. > > These problems have also 
>prevented our narration contractors from 
>uploading books > and magazines and our 
>duplication contractors from downloading picking 
>lists for > magazine duplication. This means 
>that our contractors have not been able to 
>duplicate > magazines since last Friday. As a 
>result, weekly magazine subscribers will not 
>receive > their regular magazine cartridge this 
>week. > > NLS will resume sending audio 
>magazines once the system is restored. Patrons 
>will > receive their back issues, although we 
>have not yet determined whether they will > 
>receive a single cartridge with two issues of 
>each weekly magazine or two separate > 
>cartridges. > > NLS will notify network 
>libraries as soon as BARD and MOC are available. > > >

         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail:  dandrews at visi.com or david.andrews at nfbnet.org