EMC Publishing Information

EMC Publishing began in early 1954 in the basement of a private home on the east side of St. Paul, Minnesota. A group of recording specialists and university professors joined forces to develop some of the first educational reel-to-reel tape recordings ever to be used in the classroom. By June, the company was operating out of a small office and studio facility at 806 East Seventh Street in St. Paul. The first few years were difficult as EMC was pioneering a new educational technology. A dramatic change came with the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which provided schools with federal funds for new electronic teaching equipment and educational audio-lingual materials. Through EMC’s early pioneer efforts in programming for the classroom, several leading textbook publishers commissioned the company to produce tape-recorded materials to accompany their world language texts. Within the next ten years, EMC was producing and manufacturing both tapes and sound filmstrips for a growing number of major educational publishers. In 1966, EMC resumed development of its own proprietary educational products. Over the years, EMC Publishing, LLC has grown steadily into one of the nations’ leading producers and marketers of textbooks and supporting multimedia programs for K-12 and post-secondary schools throughout the country. EMC currently publishes print and electronic educational materials under three imprints