Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the first public release of the ZOOM-Perl software, distributed as the Net::Z3950::ZOOM module, was released and uploaded to CPAN yesterday. Thanks to Index Data, and especially Mike Taylor for their hard work on this module over the past few weeks. With this software release, we're ready for the next phase of Zebra integration, which will include using the Perl-ZOOM API to perform OPAC and Cataloging functions on a Zebra database. If you'd like to get involved in this process, you'll want to read through the ZOOM-Perl documentation here: http://search.cpan.org/~mirk/Net-Z3950-ZOOM-1.00/lib/ZOOM.pod Most of what we'll be doing is search and retrieve clients using the ZOOM class, which looks something like this: use ZOOM; eval { $conn = new ZOOM::Connection($host, $port) $conn->option(preferredRecordSyntax => "usmarc"); $rs = $conn->search_pqf('@attr 1=4 dinosaur'); $n = $rs->size(); print $rs->record(0)->render(); }; if ($@) { print "Error ", $@->code(), ": ", $@->message(), "\n"; } and updating records, using the ZOOM::Package class, which looks something like this: $p = $conn->package(); $p->option(action => "specialUpdate"); $p->option(recordIdOpaque => 145); $p->option(record => content_of("/tmp/record.xml")); $p->send("update"); $p->destroy(); Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS