Thursday, May 26, 2005

System Downtime for WorldCat Services

Over the next few weeks, as OCLC continues our cataloging and resource sharing migration projects, regularly scheduled system downtimes will be altered. OCLC services that rely on WorldCat* will be unavailable at the following times. Here are the plans for system downtime with respect to WorldCat Services*:

• Sunday, May 29, 2:00 am-6:00 am EST - all systems will be unavailable for normal system maintenance
• Saturday and Sunday, June 4-5 - all systems will be available throughout the weekend, no maintenance is scheduled
• Friday, June 10, 11:00 pm EST - Monday, June 13, 12:00 am (midnight) EST WorldCat Resource Sharing and OCLC ILLiad will be unavailable to accommodate database migration
• Saturday, June 11, 1:00 am - 2:00 am EST - all systems will be unavailable for shortened system maintenance

* WorldCat Services include the following:
      OCLC FirstSearch
      WorldCat Resource Sharing
      OCLC ILLiad
      OCLC Union List
     WorldCat Collection Analysis
     WorldCat Partner Program

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Please contact your regional service provider (http://www.oclc.org/contacts/regional/) or OCLC Customer Support (1-800-848-5800 or support@oclc.org) with questions.