Internet Public Library Information

The Internet Public Library is pleased to announce that we have entered into a partnership with Bell & Howell Information and Learning, formerly UMI, an Ann Arbor, MI based company (http://webink.ipl.org/cgi-bin/common/redirect?http://www.proquest.com/). The first part of this partnership takes the form of a sponsorship. The support given to the IPL by Bell & Howell Information and Learning will allow us to continue to offer the same high level of service to the Internet community, free of charge, as we have over the past four years. The second part of this partnership involves a sharing of information resources. Bell & Howell Information and Learning will include certain IPL resources within its ProQuest Direct® Web database product, allowing these IPL resources to reach a larger audience. Also, IPL staff will have access to ProQuest Direct for our internal use. In addition, we will continue to work with Bell & Howell Information and Learning to develop new ways in which our two organizations can work together in the future, including finding ways to enrich the IPL experience for users of ProQuest. We wish to stress that these services will be in addition to, not in place of, the services we already offer.