Library Bytes: Europeana Down!

Well, thanks for my friends CC and PR, I've now discovered why Europeana wasn't allowing active searching. Apparently the system crashed from the number of people who attempted to get into the site when it was released! It's going to be a few weeks before they are up and running again. We await the new release... To read more, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/technology/internet/22digital.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink, where The New York Times has reported on the outage.