My old employer, ProQuest, made a number of genealogically-important announcements at the American Library Association Conference in Denver a few days ago. The information excerpted below is from a much longer article in the January 25, 2009 edition of the wwj.com website. Click on the links within each paragraph to go to EXTENSIVE press releases posted at the ProQuest website itself.
ProQuest is also expanding the research power of its periodical and newspaper solutions. ProQuest and the Center for Research Libraries will offer digital access to two centuries of American periodicals. Available in early 2009, American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries will contain full text and full-color scans of nearly three million pages of historically important journal content from the 19th and early 20th centuries, all of which can be cross-searched with American Periodicals Series Online, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, and other historical collections from ProQuest.
Key titles include American Annual of Photography, The Craftsman, Electrical Age, Hampton’s Magazine, House & Garden, The Labor Journal, The Occident, American Jewish Advocate and Woman’s Protest Against Woman Suffrage.
In the news content area, where ProQuest is an industry leader, ProQuest will add The Baltimore Sun’s back issues from 1837 to 1985 to its highly regarded collection of historical newspapers.
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ProQuest continues to smooth the research path for family historians and genealogists. For example, Historic Map Works Library Edition has doubled the size of its extensive collection of highly detailed, full-color historical maps and added new functionality. Now finding points of interest, printing, downloading, and rotating the map are easy for even novice users.