ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, US, has announced that the company will celebrate the 70th Anniversary of University Mircofilms, Inc. (UMI), an imprint of ProQuest, at the ALA Midwinter conference on January 12, 2008. UMI was created in 1938 by Eugene Power to safeguard threatened scholarly resources.
UMI worked to make content accessible to researchers around the world long before the first computer, and decades before the first PC, floppy disc, or wiki. Even today, microform remains a perfect way to capture content and make it accessible around the world - especially for more specialised research needs.
ProQuest and UMI continue to pioneer increasing access to titles, and eliminating the typical need experienced by publishers either to print hundreds of copies or not to publish at all. With the 'view on demand' opportunity provided by microfilm from UMI, libraries can make rare titles available to their researchers even if they are out of print. Through UMI, ProQuest is working to ensure that content is available for generations of patrons to come.
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