PICA::Record
------------

PICA::Record is a Perl module for handling PICA+ records. There are
classes and methods for reading in, manipulating, and outputting
bibliographic records in PICA+. There is also an XML representation
of PICA+ and a simple SRU interface to PICA systems for downloading
PICA+ records.

For a more detailed introduction have a look at the example scripts,
the tests in t directory and above all the source documentation.

INSTALLATION

To install this module use the CPAN module or type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

You may also just point you PERL5LIB environment variable to
the 'lib' directory of this distribution. To directly call the 
scripts in the 'bin' directory, you may add it to your PATH.

DEPENDENCIES

The module dependencies are defined in Makefile.PL.

AUTHORS

Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@gbv.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2007-2009 by Verbundzentrale Göttingen (VZG) and Jakob Voss

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at
your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.