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Vendor Update

At the 2000 Annual Conference, Cliff Pierce, Director of Publisher Relations at IPI, presented groundbreaking advancements in electronic publishing from companies like Infonautics and ProQuest. Key innovations include course packs designed for classroom integration and the Digital Vault, which offers access to a vast collection of microfilm archives. This initiative aims to transform traditional print markets by digitizing historical resources, making them easily searchable and accessible. With millions of page images and extensive research materials, these developments promise to enhance academic research and education.

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  1. Vendor Update Special Libraries Association Annual Conference Tuesday, June 13, 2000 Cliff Pierce Director, Publisher Relations

  2. Acquisitions IPI - International Sales Agent Chadwyck-Healey - UK-based electronic publisher Infonautics - eLibrary product and creation of bigchalk.com Expanded Distribution

  3. Web Archive Solutions ProQuest CoursePacks/CasePacks Digital Vault New Product Development

  4. Web Archive Solutions • Infonautics • ProQuest SiteBuilder • Integrated into the “look and feel” of the publisher’s website • Include e-commerce

  5. ProQuest CoursePacks/CasePacks • Extension of our ProQuest Service • Expand our penetration of the academic market by moving beyond the library and into the classroom • Provide a collection of articles to be used by students in conjunction with specific courses • Existing pre-defined content packages are available for use or the course instructor can create their own • Significantly expands the traditional market for print CoursePacks and CasePacks • Print Market Size - $300 million annually (declining)

  6. Digital VaultTM Opening the Vault on 500 Years of History

  7. Microfilm Collection • Bell & Howell Information and Learning’s microfilm “vault” is the largest commercially available collection • 20,000 periodicals, 7,000 newspapers and 400 Research Collections and 1,000,000 dissertations • 3 climate controlled underground vaults • Over 5.5 billion page images • Using the microfilm contained in the vaults to create the largest digital collection

  8. Why Digitize Microfilm? • Microfilm is inconvenient to use • Expand distribution • Enable new research methods • Allows for the creation of derivative products

  9. How Is It Done? • Scan from the master film negative at 400 bpi binary • Store images in industry standard TIFF format • “Zone” each page to create individual article images • OCR each article to create searchable ASCII text • Deliver each article to the screen

  10. Opening the Vault • First Digital Vault product released 12/98 - Early English Books Online (EEBO) • EEBO covers 230 years of English printing • Collection represents nearly 23 million pages • Focus in 2000 • American Periodical Series • Gerritsen Collection on Women’s History • Genealogy and Local History • Modern Periodical Archive • Newspapers

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