Is Ruby gaining popularity in the library world? A few months ago I started developing a MARC4J implementation in Ruby. MARC4J is a library for working with MARC and MARC XML data in Java. I do not have a direct need for such a program, but I was just wondering how difficult it would be to create a MARC parser in Ruby. Is there any interest in such a library for Ruby? Check http://marc4j.tigris.org for more information about MARC4J. You can find the Ruby project here: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rmarc/. Regards, Bas Peters