[Nfb-krafters-korner] bard outageRE: Fw: [fcb-l] FW: [Nfbf-l] Concerns BARD, Copyright Office's online registration hasn't worked for almost a?week

Sun Sep 6 18:44:19 UTC 2015

Cindy.miles at tn.gov		Cindy, this is a reason for the BARD outage.
You may want to forward this to teacher.
Linda

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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Fw: [fcb-l] FW: [Nfbf-l] Concerns BARD,
Copyright Office's online registration hasn't worked for almost a?week

--- On Sat, 9/5/15, Patricia A. Lipovsky via fcb-l <fcb-l at acblists.org>
wrote:

> From: Patricia A. Lipovsky via fcb-l <fcb-l at acblists.org>
> Subject: [fcb-l] FW: [Nfbf-l] Concerns BARD, Copyright Office's online 
> registration hasn't worked for almost a?week
> To: fcb-l at acblists.org
> Date: Saturday, September 5, 2015, 10:18 AM
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbf-l [mailto:nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Jim Ellsworth
> via Nfbf-l
> Sent: Friday, September 4, 2015 11:36 PM
> To: NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List
> Cc: Jim Ellsworth
> Subject: [Nfbf-l] Concerns BARD, Copyright Office's online 
> registration hasn't worked for almost a week
> 
> Very important so please read.
> 
>  
> 
> The U.S. Copyright Office's electronic registration system has been 
> down since Friday, costing the office an estimated $650,000 in lost 
> fees and causing headaches for approximately 12,000 customers.
> 
>  
> 
> The outage is part of a bigger computer failure at the Library of 
> Congress, the federal agency that oversees the national library, 
> provides Congress with research advice and operates the Copyright 
> Office,
> 
> a major player in the global digital economy. 
> 
>  
> 
> Scheduled maintenance on the library's James Madison Building resulted 
> in buildingwide power outages, officials said. The library's 
> information technology office is trying to restore the systems, but 
> officials
> 
> can't say when service will return. 
> 
>  
> 
> "This is pretty significant, and we have to do everything to make sure 
> this never happens again," said U.S. Register of Copyrights Maria 
> Pallante about the computer crisis. "It's ridiculous."
> 
>  
> 
> The failure of the Copyright Office's electronic registration system 
> comes five months after a
> 
> congressional report sharply criticized the IT systems
> 
> at the Library of Congress. The report cited outdated and inefficient 
> systems and a lack of oversight. That Government Accountability Office 
> report made 31 recommendations, including several that were
> 
> made in previous reports dating back 20 years. 
> 
>  
> 
> The report blamed the library's leadership for failing to address the 
> problems. Weeks later, James H. Billington, who was appointed 
> librarian of Congress by Ronald Reagan in 1987, announced that he will
> 
> retire at the end of the year. 
> 
>  
> 
> The library's problems go beyond its computer systems. The library's 
> executive team testified before Congress in the spring about the dire 
> need for more storage space for its -ever-increasing collections.
> 
> Some books are stored by size, making them difficult to retrieve, 
> while others are stored on the floor and in temporary carts, leading 
> to permanent damage, officials said.
> 
>  
> 
> In addition to the Copyright Office's electronic filing system, some 
> of the services on congress.gov are not working, nor are the Web sites 
> of the National Jukebox and the
> 
> National Book Festival.
> 
> The festival, the library's largest annual event, is Saturday.
> 
>  
> 
> "We regret the inconvenience to our users and are working to resolve 
> the problem as quickly as possible while maintaining the integrity of 
> the systems," library spokeswoman Gayle Osterberg said in an e-mail.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> The Copyright Office previously released what Pallante
> described as "a major
> report" on its technological needs. 
> 
>  
> 
> "We need advanced services that match the state of
> technology that our
> customers have. We need enterprise infrastructure that is
> swift and nimble,"
> Pallante said. "It cannot stay this way. The Copyright
> 
> Office is too important to the United States." 
> 
>  
> 
> The Copyright Office averages 1,500 to 2,000 online
> registrations a day, so
> over a six-day shutdown, as many as 12,000 registrations
> could not be filed
> online. Pallante said the customers must register
> 
> their works on paper forms. 
> 
>  
> 
> The Library of Congress has addressed some of the GAO's
> findings, including
> the hiring of a chief information officer, a post that is
> required by law
> but had been vacant. Osterberg said the library will
> 
> announce the name of the new executive this month. 
> 
>  
> 
> Pallante has testified repeatedly before Congress about the
> need to remove
> her office from the Library of Congress. This computer
> failure, she said, is
> a symptom of the bigger problem. 
> 
>  
> 
> The House Judiciary Committee, which has held a series of
> hearings about the
> future of the Copyright Office, is monitoring the breakdown,
> an aide said,
> adding that the situation highlights the committee's
> 
> concerns that the library isn't equipped to keep pace with
> the digital age. 
> 
> article end
> 
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> Here is what I received today regarding BARD.  Just wanted to pass it on.

Annely

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