Infonautics, the developer of the online Electric Library service used by many libraries and schools, has sold its cornerstone product to Bell & Howell. A new, as yet unnamed, joint-venture company will be formed to market not only Electric Library, but also Bell & Howell's ProQuest K-12 business. Taken together, ProQuest and Electric Library are used in more than 40,000 libraries and schools. It is estimated that 25 million students in K-12 used the two products each day. Infonautics will own 27 percent of the joint-venture company. It will continue to market the consumer version of Electric Library, and will retain its line of "Sleuth" online reference services.
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Library Systems Newsletter [August 1999]
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| Publication Year: | 1999 |
| Type of Material: | Article |
| Language | English |
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Library Systems Newsletter |
| Publication Info: | Volume 19 Number 08 |
| Issue: | August 1999 |
| Page(s): | 64 |
| Publisher: | American Library Association |
| Place of Publication: | Chicago, IL |
| Notes: | Howard S. White, Editor-in-Chief; Richard W. Boss, Contributing Editor |
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Bell & Howell |
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Electric Library ProQuest Direct |
| Subject: |
Mergers and acquisitions |
| ISSN: | 0277-0288 |
| Record Number: | 5936 |
| Last Update: | 2025-02-24 10:39:44 |
| Date Created: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| Views: | 159 |
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