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On 19 April 2007, Ed Summers wrote: > A while back Chris Biemesderfer added a section on > using Z39.50 to the MARC::Record tutorial: > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/MARC-Record/lib/MARC/Doc/Tutorial.pod#Z39.50 Thanks for pointing that out. I read that tutorial a few months ago but completely forgot about it, and since I'm doing this thing in Ruby now, I didn't go back to it. It's very good documentation. > [1] http://opus.tu-bs.de/zack/statistic/targetmaps/ I hadn't seen that. Interesting. Yesterday I couldn't get to IndexData's site, for some reason, but today I see the big list of Z39.50 servers: http://targettest.indexdata.com/ The ones I use I'd found on this shorter list: http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/toolbox/z3950hosts.htm IndexData's has a lot more and I'll run through some more public and national libraries. I can get by with a fixed list of servers for now, but grabbing a live list or doing some geographically-informed guessing would be fun. A question for the Talis people on the list: you don't make information from Talis Source, your union catalogue, openly available, as I read it. Am I correct in understanding that only libraries that contribute to it can read from it? If so, do you have any plans to open it up? Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : www.miskatonic.org www.frbr.org www.openfrbr.org