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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. |
D-Lib October 2000 William Y. Arms |
Editorial: Digital Libraries for Distance Education The latest fashion in higher education is distance education. Like most fashions, this is not a new idea. Modern technology -- notably the Internet -- provides opportunities for really high-quality distance education, including digital libraries... |
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 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 October 2003 King et al. |
Patterns of Journal Use by Faculty at Three Diverse Universities University libraries are rapidly moving toward electronic journal collections. Readership surveys at three universities with different levels of electronic journal implementation demonstrate how transition to electronic journal collections affects use patterns of faculty and staff. |
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 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. |
D-Lib December 2002 King & Montgomery |
After Migration to an Electronic Journal Collection: Impact on Faculty and Doctoral Students The results of a comprehensive analysis of a readership survey covering the number of journal readings, outcomes from reading and information-seeking, and reading patterns following implementation of a nearly exclusive electronic journal collection at Drexel University. |
Information Today March 17, 2015 |
TLC Displays Reading Levels in Its ILS Products The Library Corp. added Reading Level Integration to its Library*Solution and Library*Solution for Schools. |
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 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 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 October 6, 2011 |
Gale Launches Librareo--Free Web-Based Community for LIS Students Librareo is a free web-based community that supports the future of libraries and librarianship by providing students enrolled in Library and Information Studies programs with free access to the professional resources they'll rely upon following graduation. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal December 2005 Chris Balsano |
School Libraries Go Interactive An Illinois high school library uses online forms to stay in contact with the needs and requests of students and teachers. |
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 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 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 September 16, 2014 |
Outside the Lines Encourages Creativity and Innovation in Libraries More than 135 libraries in the U.S. and Canada agreed to sponsor creative outreach and community engagement events and campaigns that show libraries' relevance in their communities. |
D-Lib October 2003 Marcum & George |
Who Uses What? Report on a national survey of information users in colleges and universities |
T.H.E. Journal November 2002 Mahesh S. Raisinghani |
Wireless Library Aids Student Productivity A wireless network permits a library to give all of its users high-speed access to the Internet as well as to its online resources. Students access the resources using laptops with wireless connections to the Internet and the library's intranet. |
Information Today November 12, 2015 |
OCLC Research Shares Patron Behavior Study Findings It offers an overview of user-behavior findings for librarians, information scientists, and library and information science students and researchers so they can plan for future user-centered library services. |
Information Today March 21, 2013 |
New Bowker Study on Ebook Markets The rise in ebook reading in the U.S. and U.K. over the last 3 years has been a key driver in the market share gains of e-retailers, according to research being released this month by Bowker Market Research. |
Information Today April 11, 2013 |
Bowker, ebrary, and Choice Enhance Access to Resources for College Libraries Choice and Bowker, whose unique partnership created RCL, have launched a variety of enhancements which are used by academic libraries to identify core titles for scores of academic subject areas. |
ONLINE Nov./Dec. 2006 Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. |
Information Today March 29, 2010 |
Bowker Adds Video Clips, Reader Advisory Content to Syndetics for Library OPACs Bowker, a business unit of ProQuest, has added new features to its popular OPAC-enrichment tool, Syndetics, that make it easier for library users to choose catalog titles and get ideas for new titles that match their interests. |
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. |
Information Today February 23, 2012 |
Social Media Data Available for ebrary Student E-book Survey ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced that the social media data of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey is now publicly available online along with the full report. |
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 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. |
Searcher September 2002 Marylaine Block |
Doing it Right How some universities encourage the creation of prime research web sites |
Information Today September 15, 2015 |
ProQuest Facilitates Library Access to Global Newspapers ProQuest rolled out the Newspapers.com Library Edition, giving library patrons access to more than 85 million pages of digitized newspapers from the early 1700s to the early 2000s. |
Information Today June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library. |
Information Today |
Sony Announces Inaugural Participants in Reader Library Program The program will provide participating libraries with in-house training on digital reading devices, educational materials to help librarians and patrons learn more about ebooks, and digital reading devices for library staff use and patron demonstrations. |
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. |
Information Today February 11, 2002 Rebecca Lenzini |
Washington's Governor Proposes Closing State Library to Save Money The governor's office in the state of Washington has proposed closing the Washington State Library by this October. This move is part of an effort to reduce overall state spending by more than $500 million to solve a $1.2 billion shortfall in Washington's biennial budget... |
Information Today July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K. |
Information Today May 24, 2012 |
ProQuest and Elsevier Health Expand Medical Licensing Agreement ProQuest and Elsevier Health are expanding their long-standing relationship for licensing of the Lancet family of medical journals to include 36 additional health science titles from Elsevier in ProQuest's information products. |
Information Today September 14, 2009 |
IMLS Grant Will Help Libraries Help the Unemployed Job seekers have packed libraries around the country during recent months, searching online job sites, building resumes, making use of a wide range of other employment services and resources. More help is on the way. |
Information Today November 12, 2013 |
ProQuest and OCLC Automate WorldCat Updates OCLC and ProQuest are collaborating on an automation process for updating holdings from ebrary and EBL (Ebook Library) and offering current links in the WorldCat database and in library catalogs. |
D-Lib December 2005 Bonita Wilson |
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources The Library of Congress Global Gateway provides access to the World Digital Library (WDL) which offers international cultural digital resources available via the Internet worldwide. |
Information Today April 29, 2013 Barbie E. Keiser |
Survey on U.S. Faculty Use of Scholarly Resources -- and the Academic Library The results provide "libraries, learned societies, and academic publishers with insight into the evolving attitudes and practices of faculty members in the context of substantial environmental change for higher education." |
D-Lib March 2003 Susan Gibbons |
Building Upon the MyLibrary Concept to Better Meet the Information Needs of College Students Librarians cannot afford to be complacent in the knowledge that college students consider it easier to find resources using the Internet than by using the library. |
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 March 3, 2015 Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
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 28, 2013 |
New ProQuest Congressional Service Unveiled ProQuest unveiled its new ProQuest Congressional, which has been rebuilt with an all-new technological framework that supports richer, more in-depth exploration, and expanded use of its unique content. |
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 August 26, 2010 |
"Geek the Library" Campaign Now Available to All U.S. Libraries The campaign is designed to highlight the vital role of public libraries in today's challenging economic environment and to increase local library support. |
D-Lib October 2000 John V. Lombardi |
Academic Libraries in a Digital Age Students increasingly see the library as mostly irrelevant, while faculty and librarians of a certain age cling to the security of an authoritative collection and familiar classification systems... |