This is bordering on being Talmudic: in what way is leaving systems up a 
form of "working" while going to the effort to shut them down "not 
working"? The machines don't need us nearly as much as we need them, and 
they can carry on for quite a while without our intervention, 
presumably. Is the issue the use of electricity? Or is the purpose to 
create inconvenience where it otherwise wouldn't be?

Honestly, I'm beginning to think that the old anarchist trope is true: 
"There's no government like no government." Although perhaps it's more 
like "There's no government like a government that will not govern."

kc

On 10/1/13 3:41 AM, Cecilia M. Preston wrote:
> If I understood the morning news correctly many have until noon today to go in a shut things down.  May lose services by then.
>
> --Cecilia
>
> On Oct 1, 2013, at 6:26 AM, Riley Childs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Nope, LOC services are all up, I think the physical LOC is closed...
>>
>> Riley Childs
>> Junior and Library Tech Manager
>> Charlotte United Christian Academy
>> +1 (704) 497-2086
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> Please excuse mistakes
>>
>>> On Oct 1, 2013, at 1:55 AM, Shlomo Sanders <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> We keep on coming back to the same thing.
>>> Real applications must have good local caching for both performance and net=
>>> work interruptions (or external site down or on maintenance, etc.) for impo=
>>> rtant data.
>>> I guess LC is now in the etc category :)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Shlomo
>>>
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative Forum [mailto:BIBFRAME@=
>>> LISTSERV.LOC.GOV] On Behalf Of J. McRee Elrod
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 08:26
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: [BIBFRAME] LC shutdown
>>>
>>> Becky Yoose stated on Autocat:
>>>
>>> "All sites under the loc.gov domain will be down if the government goes int=
>>> o shutdown mode."
>>>
>>> Wouldn't that be fun if we were already into linked data.
>>>
>>>
>>>   __       __   J. McRee (Mac) Elrod ([log in to unmask])
>>> {__  |   /     Special Libraries Cataloguing   HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/
>>> ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________

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