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Subbiah Arunachalam writes
Difficult to belive, but true.
It's a technical problem. It will be fixed soon. It's more important to note that the LoC appears to have been drifting in recent year. Let me quote from what Siva Vaidhyanathan writes at http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/culturebox/2015/07/library_of_congr... | Last month, Librarian of Congress James Billington announced that he | will resign as of Jan. 1, 2016, after 28 years in office. | | ... | | Traditionally, the Librarian of Congress has been an esteemed scholar | who does not threaten conservative sensibilities. Billington is a | revered historian of Russia. For much of his tenure, especially early | on, he was regarded as a stable and effective advocate for the | institution. But he never seemed to grasp the potential of digital | media to expand the influence—and thus the value—of the library. | | ... | | In March the Government Accountability Office issued a | scathing report about Billington’s failures to manage the library in | recent years, noting that the library has failed to upgrade basic | services and technologies, failed to leverage its digital collections, | and ceased being a leader among innovative libraries in the world. I don't what much what else he writes, but the above should be food for thought. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.