ANN ARBOR, Mich., October 31, 2003 - The Association of Women in Computing has selected ProQuest Senior Vice President Carolyn Dyer as a Top Michigan Woman in Computing. This year's Top Michigan Women in Computing were chosen based on outstanding scientific and technical achievement and extraordinary service to the computing community through their accomplishments and contributions on behalf of women in computing. ProQuest Information and Learning creates and distributes databases to libraries and educational institutions worldwide.

Ms. Dyer will be honored at the AWC 25th Anniversary Gala on November 8th, 2003 at the Sheraton Detroit Novi.  Governor Jennifer Granholm and CIO of Michigan Teri Takai are the invited keynote speakers.

In her current role as Senior Vice President, Content Operations for ProQuest, Ms. Dyer is responsible for the receipt and manufacture of content in all formats, including metadata and access tools such as abstracting, indexing, and cataloging.

Ms. Dyer has spent her entire career in the information access industry, first as an indexing consultant to University Microfilms in 1972. In 1974, she joined the company full time as Manager of Indexing Services. Over the next seven years she served as Manager of Serials Marketing and Manager of Serials Product Development.

Between 1981 and 1983, Ms. Dyer was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Microfilming Corporation of America, a subsidiary of The New York Times in Sanford, North Carolina. In 1983, Ms. Dyer joined NewsBank Inc. in New Canaan, Connecticut. During her 13 years at NewsBank she was Vice President of Marketing, Vice President of Editorial, Vice President of Product Development, and Vice President of Academic Marketing and Sales.

In July 1995, Ms. Dyer rejoined UMI as Director of Electronic Product Management. Within a few months, she became Vice President of Content Development. As Vice President, she was responsible for the manufacture of all newspaper and periodical electronic content and all indexing and abstracting. The net result is the superior availability of content electronically, on CD-ROM, tape, or online, to libraries and users. Ms. Dyer was appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of UMI in January 2000.

Ms. Dyer earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1968. She attended the Executive MBA program at the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.

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