Blog 2017

If you’ve probably spent some time thinking about how web-scale discovery impacts your information literacy teaching, these questions will be discussed at the 2nd UK Information Literacy & Summon Day coming up on the 25th of July, hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).

During the 75th anniversary ProQuest dinner, the ProQuest team socialized and shared some of the successful company milestones (blog post in Portuguese).

Many at our ALA breakfast program said that the presentation delivered by Megan Oakleaf, MLS, Phd., “The Importance of Using Data to Drive Innovation, Improve Services & Demonstrate Value,” was the best presentation they had ever seen! We didn’t want you to miss out, so here’s a re-cap of it for you, along with opportunities for you to learn more about the latest innovations from ProQuest.

Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has acted on requests to expand discovery of audio-visual content by working with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (‘Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid’) to include the database Academia.

The newest professional forum within ALA, the Sustainability Round Table (SustainRT), had its first meeting on July 1 in Chicago at ALA Annual.

A brief history of the ALA conference in Chicago.

Comic book details the beginnings of ProQuest: Eugene B. Power and the Wild Beginnings of UMI.

Smartphone access to your ProQuest databases is now available!

Plenty can be done to be greener or more sustainable while attending the ALA annual conference.

ProQuest’s Art and Architecture Archive will make it easy for whimsical researchers to generate ideas!