Problems searching Library of Congress in Bookpedia

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Problems searching Library of Congress in Bookpedia

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Hi
I have been trying out your programs (considering buying a bundle). In Bookpedia, I can't find anything using Library of Congress. I've tried ISBNs, LCCs, title, author's last name, scanning code of book. These searches have been tried with "Limit" set to the corresponding value (for example, "Author" when searching last name), or by setting limit to "None". Always get no results ("There are no matches..."). Am I doing something wrong?
MacOS 10.8.4,
8GB RAM,
200+GB available hard drive space
Bookpedia 5.1.6

Example of search: The complete HyperCard Handbook by Danny Goodman, ISBN- 0553343912 (Bantam Books 1987).
I've tried the terms "goodman", "hypercard", "0553343912".

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Re: Problems searching Library of Congress in Bookpedia

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The Library of Congress SRU endpoint, that provides information automated for applications seems to be down at the moment. Hopefully, it will be back up in a day or two. You should be able to follow this link and get a response. Here are some other samples directly from their page that are not currently working. I'll monitor it and have also written to the LOC asking about the down time.
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Re: Problems searching Library of Congress in Bookpedia

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Conor wrote:The Library of Congress SRU endpoint, that provides information automated for applications seems to be down at the moment. Hopefully, it will be back up in a day or two. You should be able to follow this link and get a response. Here are some other samples directly from their page that are not currently working. I'll monitor it and have also written to the LOC asking about the down time.
Thanks a lot!!
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Re: Problems searching Library of Congress in Bookpedia

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It seems to be working now (as of 4:13pm EST). Thanks for the links.
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I got a quick reply from their support as well that it was working as usual as of this morning. Both the title and ISBN search I can confirm are working. Sorry about the down time with the LOC.
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