From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2005-03-19T09:51:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby/ZOOM 0.1.0

> Z39.50 is mainly used for book information retrieval.  For instance,
> the US Library of Congress has a Z39.50 open server.  The French
> National Library too.  A lot of national libraries do provide a Z39.50
> access to the public.
> 
> I am not an expert on this, I just want to support more libraries in
> my book collection manager :)  Someone can correct what I said.

You're dead on. An ugly stupid protocol, but it works!