I don't know if it is getting mindshare, but you (and others) might also be interested in Ed Summers work on this: http://rubyforge.org/projects/marc/ Kevin On 12/2/05, Bas Peters <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 >