Vendor UpdateVendor Update

Special Libraries Association Annual ConferenceTuesday, June 13, 2000

Cliff PierceDirector, Publisher Relations

Expanded Distribution Acquisitions

IPI - International Sales Agent

Chadwyck-Healey - UK-based electronic publisher

Infonautics - eLibrary product and creation of bigchalk.com

New Product Development

Web Archive Solutions

ProQuest CoursePacks/CasePacks

Digital Vault

Web Archive Solutions

Infonautics

ProQuest SiteBuilder

Integrated into the “look and feel” of the publisher’s website

Include e-commerce

ProQuest CoursePacks/CasePacks Extension of our ProQuest Service Expand our penetration of the academic market by

moving beyond the library and into the classroom Provide a collection of articles to be used by students in

conjunction with specific courses Existing pre-defined content packages are available for

use or the course instructor can create their own Significantly expands the traditional market for print

CoursePacks and CasePacks Print Market Size - $300 million annually (declining)

Digital VaultDigital VaultTMTM

Opening the Vault on 500 Years Opening the Vault on 500 Years of Historyof History

Microfilm Collection Bell & Howell Information and Learning’s microfilm

“vault” is the largest commercially available collection

20,000 periodicals, 7,000 newspapers and 400 Research Collections and 1,000,000 dissertations

3 climate controlled underground vaults

Over 5.5 billion page images

Using the microfilm contained in the vaults to create the largest digital collection

Why Digitize Microfilm?

Microfilm is inconvenient to use

Expand distribution

Enable new research methods

Allows for the creation of derivative products

How Is It Done? Scan from the master film negative at 400 bpi binary

Store images in industry standard TIFF format

“Zone” each page to create individual article images

OCR each article to create searchable ASCII text

Deliver each article to the screen

Opening the Vault

First Digital Vault product released 12/98 - Early English Books Online (EEBO)

EEBO covers 230 years of English printing Collection represents nearly 23 million pages Focus in 2000

American Periodical Series Gerritsen Collection on Women’s History Genealogy and Local History Modern Periodical Archive Newspapers