marc is a ruby library for reading and writing MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC). More information about MARC can be found at http://www.loc.gov/marc.

USAGE

require 'marc'

# reading records from a batch file
reader = MARC::Reader.new('marc.dat')
for record in reader
# print out field 245 subfield a
puts record['245']['a']
end

# creating a record 
record = MARC::Record.new()
record.append(MARC::DataField.new('100', '0',  ' ', ['a', 'John Doe']))

# writing a record
writer = MARC::Writer.new('marc.dat')
writer.write(record)
writer.close()

# writing a record as XML
writer = MARC::XMLWriter.new('marc.xml')
writer.write(record)
writer.close()

INSTALLATION

If you are looking at this file you may want to be able to install the code. First you'll need to test:

rake test

then build the gem:

rake package

and install the versioned gem:

gem install pkg/marc-x.x.x.gem 

AUTHORS

Kevin Clarke ksclarke@gmail.com Bill Dueber bill@dueber.com William Groppe will.groppe@gmail.com Ross Singer rossfsinger@gmail.com Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com

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