1. Vendor Update Special Libraries Association Annual Conference Tuesday, June 13, 2000 Cliff Pierce Director, Publisher Relations

2. Expanded Distribution Ò Acquisitions  IPI - International Sales Agent  Chadwyck-Healey - UK-based electronic publisher  Infonautics - eLibrary product and creation of bigchalk.com

3. New Product Development Ò Web Archive Solutions Ò ProQuest CoursePacks/CasePacks Ò Digital Vault

4. Web Archive Solutions ÒInfonautics ÒProQuest SiteBuilder ÒIntegrated into the “look and feel” of the publisher’s website ÒInclude e-commerce

5. ProQuest CoursePacks/CasePacks ÒExtension of our ProQuest Service ÒExpand our penetration of the academic market by moving beyond the library and into the classroom ÒProvide a collection of articles to be used by students in conjunction with specific courses ÒExisting pre-defined content packages are available for use or the course instructor can create their own ÒSignificantly expands the traditional market for print CoursePacks and CasePacks Ò Print Market Size - $300 million annually (declining)

6. Digital Vault TM Opening the Vault on 500 Years of History

7. Microfilm Collection ÒBell & 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 ÒUsing the microfilm contained in the vaults to create the largest digital collection

8. Why Digitize Microfilm? Ò Microfilm is inconvenient to use Ò Expand distribution Ò Enable new research methods Ò Allows for the creation of derivative products

9. How Is It Done? Ò Scan from the master film negative at 400 bpi binary Ò Store images in industry standard TIFF format Ò “Zone” each page to create individual article images Ò OCR each article to create searchable ASCII text Ò Deliver each article to the screen

10. Opening the Vault ÒFirst Digital Vault product released 12/98 - Early English Books Online (EEBO) Ò EEBO covers 230 years of English printing Ò Collection represents nearly 23 million pages Ò Focus in 2000  American Periodical Series  Gerritsen Collection on Women’s History  Genealogy and Local History  Modern Periodical Archive  Newspapers