Please be aware and share with others you believe would be interested in knowing the below information about an upcoming BARD maintenance outage:

NLS is planning BARD maintenance that will begin 11:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST), Tuesday, January 26, lasting 17 hours or less, with the expectation that the system will resume normal operation by 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, January 27. The NLS main public and Network Library Services websites, Voyager catalog, Text-Only catalog searches, and ThatAllMayRead website will remain available.

This service outage will allow NLS, working in cooperation with LOC’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, to move BARD to a cloud environment. Once operation resumes, patrons will experience no functional change to BARD, but users accessing the system via a high-speed Internet connections may notice faster download speeds.