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Information Today August 7, 2006 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Reports Completion of Audit Committee Investigation ProQuest announced that its Audit Committee had completed its investigation of accounting irregularities. |
Information Today February 5, 2007 |
ProQuest Announces Management Changes The board of directors of the publisher of information and education resources and Alan Aldworth announced that they have mutually agreed that Aldworth will leave his position as ProQuest's chairman, president, and CEO, and as a director, effective immediately |
Information Today March 5, 2007 |
ProQuest CSA's Marketing Toolkit for Public Libraries Makes Its Debut ProQuest CSA just launched a free Library Marketing Toolkit for public librarians, who are facing many challenges today. |
Information Today November 6, 2008 |
ProQuest Introduces Redesigned Website Among the key features of new site are the ProQuest Support Center, a more powerful search engine, and an all-new product access feature that directs end users to library gateways. |
Information Today January 27, 2003 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Begins Its Integration of bigchalk The takeover of the digital learning resource provider for the K-12 education market provides ProQuest with a collection of new licensed content as well as some interesting technological and interface improvements. |
Information Today October 5, 2009 |
New Report on Filings in the Google Books Settlement The Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, and the Association of College and Research Libraries have issued a report that summarizes information about the filings that have been submitted to the federal district court presiding over the Google Books litigation. |
Information Today April 22, 2002 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Announces Q1 Results, Secondary Stock Offering ProQuest Co. has announced its company results for the first quarter of its 2002 fiscal year (ending March 31) as well as its projections for the rest of the year. The company has also filed a registration with the SEC to offer additional shares of its common stock. |
Information Today March 18, 2013 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Takes Over Library Marketing for NewspaperARCHIVE.com: Turmoil and Tumult ProQuest plans to re-package the NewspaperARCHIVE.com content and re-price it. In the course of gathering information on the new arrangement, ProQuest changed product plans dramatically in just a few days. However, one thing was clear: Prices for libraries will really change. |
Information Today August 13, 2015 |
ProQuest-Google Scholar Indexing Is Now Complete The full text of ProQuest's scholarly content (journals and working papers, etc.) is now indexed in Google Scholar. |
Information Today December 4, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Ingenta Releases New Subscription Management Service... Wolters Kluwer Health Launches PubFusion 2.0... ProQuest Adds Oxford University Press Titles to Literature Online... |
Information Today June 28, 2010 |
ProQuest Unveils New Technologies for its Upcoming Platform The new platform will now include ProQuest Extended Search, a Serials Solutions technology that will enable libraries to connect to other non-ProQuest databases as well. |
Information Today December 26, 2006 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Information and Learning Goes to CSA: What Now? ProQuest Information and Learning, the bulk of ProQuest Co., and one of the nation's oldest and largest database aggregators has been sold to Cambridge Information Group. |
Information Today January 31, 2013 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Adds Ebook Library (EBL) to Its Collection ProQuest signed an agreement to acquire Ebook Library from Australia-based Ebooks Corp. Ltd. After the transfer is completed over the next few weeks, Ebook Library will begin its merger with ebrary, acquired by ProQuest in 2011. |
Information Today July 5, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest LexisNexis Headnotes has become integrated with Shepard's Reports to provide a more complete court case viewing service... Project MUSE, which provides online scholarly journals in the Arts, has signed up more than 20 journals for 2006... etc. |
Information Today November 11, 2002 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Co. Announces Management Shake-Up On October 29, ProQuest Co. announced a change in management and a reorganization that creates a new business unit within the company. |
Information Today September 6, 2012 |
Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting Acquires BSI BSI is a provider of international tax, legal, business, and investment information and advances Wolters Kluwer's portfolio of international information. |
Information Today October 13, 2015 Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest to Acquire Ex Libris Group In a move that caught most of the library world by surprise, on Oct. 6, 2015, ProQuest announced its intention to acquire Israel-based Ex Libris Group from private equity company Golden Gate Capital. |
Information Today January 14, 2008 |
ProQuest Announces Aggregated Full-Text Database for Libraries ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, has launched a new aggregated full-text database for libraries called ProQuest Central. |
Information Today January 23, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest NAPC Offers New Content Solutions to Libraries... Wolters Kluwer Enhances Clinical Trials Database... MPS Launches ScholarlyStats Service... etc. |
Information Today July 13, 2009 Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest Proposes Pathway to New Platform ProQuest announced an "all-new platform" that would "redefine the search experience for library users around the world." The platform, which is as yet unnamed, will be introduced sometime in the first half of 2010. |
Information Today July 21, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Voters and Public Library Funding: An OCLC Market Research Report Public libraries are in trouble. Costs and demands for their services continue to rise, while revenue and support for maintaining, much less increasing, financial support continue to sink. |
Information Today April 7, 2015 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest to Open Content Through Google Scholar ProQuest, has announced that it will be sending the full texts of scholarly journals, conference presentations, and working papers to Google for inclusion in the widely used Google Scholar. |
Information Today June 30, 2015 |
ProQuest Announces New Version of Intota ProQuest announced that version 2 of Intota, its cloud-based library services platform, will be available in mid-2016. |
Information Today January 2004 |
NewsBytes Librarians Release New Info Pro Web Log... FreePint Publishes Data-Protection Report Online... ProQuest Signs Three New Agreements... IFLA Announces Donation to FAIFE... etc. |
Information Today July 9, 2012 Paula J. Hane |
The Challenging Landscape of Ebooks in Libraries The overall growth in digital content of all kinds, and in particular, the growing importance and acceptance of ebooks, has clearly presented great opportunities for libraries, as well as plenty of challenges. |
Information Today March 12, 2012 |
CIVICTechnologies Launches CommunityConnect CommunityConnect is a SaaS solution that helps public libraries knowledgeably allocate money for resources, services, and collection development by predicting people's needs and interests, neighborhood by neighborhood. |
Information Today April 14, 2011 |
ALA Releases 'The State of America's Libraries, 2011' The Great Recession may have come to an end, but hard-pressed Americans continue to turn to their local libraries for help in finding a job or launching their own business. This is one trend listed in the report. |
Information Today April 16, 2001 Barbara Quint |
Wolters Kluwer Adds SilverPlatter Information to Its Collection Dutch mega-publisher Wolters Kluwer has acquired SilverPlatter Information, Inc. The acquisition expands Wolters Kluwer's collection of medical and scientific databases and research tools and extends its reach into more libraries and medical establishments... |
Information Today September 8, 2015 |
ProQuest Makes More Early European Books Available ProQuest launched Collection 7, the newest part of its Early European Books database, with 7,450 titles. |
Information Today April 15, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair. |
Information Today June 2006 Phillip Britt |
Feature: ProQuest: A Question of Financing ProQuest Co.'s financial future came into question in May as the publisher of information and education resources reached an agreement with its bank lenders and with private placement note holders in which both parties granted the company a waiver from current defaults under its credit agreements. |
Information Today May 28, 2002 Barbara Quint |
OCLC, Olive Software Ally to Digitize Library Newspaper Archives OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources has signed an agreement with Olive Software to supply libraries with the tools to digitize historical newspaper archives. |
Information Today May 20, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
Give Your Library the Edge The Edge Initiative is a toolkit designed to help public libraries "demonstrate how their work adds value and supports strong outcomes" in the communities they serve. |
Information Today July 25, 2011 Marydee Ojala |
Kurt Sanford Replaces Marty Kahn as ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn handed over the CEO reins of ProQuest to Kurt Sanford, a 14-year veteran of LexisNexis, on July 13, 2011. Kahn will move on to the post of vice chairman of ProQuest's Board of Directors. |
D-Lib April 2000 Wendy P. Lougee |
Book Review: Digital Libraries This book by William Arms draws boundaries broadly and covers issues from the perspective of all the relevant stakeholders -- i.e., librarians, technologists, publishers, and users. |
Information Today November 10, 2015 |
ProQuest Plans New Ebook Acquisition Model ProQuest will pilot a new ebook acquisition model, Access-to-Own, which applies budget money spent on title rentals to perpetual purchases. |
Information Today August 20, 2012 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Graduate Education Program Serves Tomorrow's Librarians, Today's Library School Faculties The recently announced ProQuest Graduate Education Program offers library schools and other educational settings a way for students and teachers to reach the company's full array of resources. |
Information Today July 7, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services. |
D-Lib September 2006 Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. |
Information Today February 4, 2002 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Acquires Micromedia, Ltd.; Adds More Titles; Upgrades Interface While the Web world of Net newbies swirls with dot-coms and dot-gones, one of the information industry's oldest and steadiest players continues to get the job done, adding new content and new sources to its already impressive aggregations... |
Information Today June 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Passionate About Customer Needs In mid-March, ProQuest Co. announced the appointment of D&B veteran Ron Klausner as president of ProQuest Information and Learning. He started work in early April, and the author caught up with him a few weeks later to chat about his experiences, the company, and the industry. |
Information Today January 16, 2014 |
ProQuest Enhances Multimedia Discovery ProQuest's new Video Preservation and Discovery Service is designed to make it easier for university library patrons to find and access an institution's multimedia collections. |
Information Today November 6, 2014 |
LibraryThing for Libraries Boosts Discovery Books in a library's holdings will now offer recommendations for titles by the same author, similar authors and genres, and other specifications. |
Information Today February 2, 2012 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Works to Integrate Assets and Services Last summer, ProQuest welcomed Kurt Sanford as its new CEO. He has now had 6 months leading the company and has already made his mark with a reorganization of leadership, new customer focus, and product migrations and integrations. |
Information Today September 2000 |
Bell & Howell Information and Learning Unveils ProQuest 4.0 4.0 adds an intelligent document-linking capability to their online information research system. |
Information Today June 24, 2014 |
Boopsie and ProQuest Offer Mobile App Integration Boopsie for Libraries partnered with ProQuest's eLibrary product team to integrate Boopsie's mobile apps with eLibrary's resources. |
Information Today July 28, 2011 |
Wellcome Library Partners With ProQuest to Digitize Early European Books The collection will be made available through ProQuest's new Early European Books database, a sister project to the Early English Books Online. |
Information Today January 13, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Acquires Ebook Pioneer ebrary With the goal to "accelerate the process of serious research," ProQuest has acquired ebrary, a respected, pioneering ebook provider to libraries and corporations. |
Searcher April 2012 Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Information Today April 9, 2015 |
ProQuest's Acquisition of SIPX Connects Libraries to the University Community ProQuest -- through its affiliate Bowker -- acquired digital course materials solution creator SIPX. |