Hello, I'm happy to announce the first release of hs-bibutils, the Haskell bindings to Chris Putnam's bibutils.[1] Bibutils is a library and a set of bibliographic utilities to interconvert between various bibliography database formats using a common MODS-format XML intermediate. hs-bibutils is meant to provide to citeproc-hs, and indirectly to pandoc, the ability to parse all the bibliographic database formats supported by bibutils. citeproc-hs[2] is a Haskell implementation of the Citation Style Language. It adds to pandoc a Bibtex like citation and bibliographic formatting and generation facility. DOWNLOADS hs-bibutils can be downloaded from Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hs-bibutils The project home page can be found here: http://code.haskell.org/hs-bibutils/ INSTALLATION AND KNOWN ISSUES bibutils builds, without installing it, a static library to be used to compile the various converting utilities. But in order to use the library with pandoc (or ghci) it is necessary to create and install a shared object before building and installing hs-bibutils. hs-bibutils provides a patch to the bibutils building scripts to enable the shared object creation and installation. Alternatively a patched version of the latest release of bibutils can be downloaded from the project home page, where all the needed information for the installation are provided: http://code.haskell.org/hs-bibutils/#installation I was able to test the patched building scripts only on a Linux machine with a x86 system. Please report me any success or failure on other systems/architectures. BUG REPORTS To submit bug reports you can either contact me directly or use the citeproc-hs bug tracking system available at the following address: http://code.google.com/p/citeproc-hs/issues Hope you'll enjoy, Andrea Rossato [1] http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/ [2] http://code.haskell.org/citeproc-hs/