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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2009
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ839611 |
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- Corner Office: ProQuest's Marty Kahn Fialkoff, Francine Oder, Norman Administrators Interviews Information Services Corporations Internet Search Engines Microforms Libraries In a scant three years at ProQuest, Marty Kahn, CEO, has moved a company coming out of a financial morass back onto solid ground. He came on board after the purchase of ProQuest Information and Learning by the (mostly) privately owned Cambridge Information Group in late 2006 and the merger of ProQuest and CSA to form ProQuest CSA. (It's now just ProQuest to capitalize on the brand recognition). In 2008, the company made three significant acquisitions, including federated search company WebFeat, which joined ProQuest's own Serials Solutions; RefWorks, of which it had been a part owner; and Dialog, by far the largest addition in terms of scale and revenue. Under Kahn's leadership, the company has grown, especially in countries like China, India, Brazil, and in the former Eastern bloc. Its market remains strongly academic, though ProQuest has reintegrated and begun to invest in its schools division. It put significant money and research into the development of a one-stop search tool, Summon--a unified search and discovery service that will pre-index all the print and electronic materials a library owns. It formed a partnership with Google that will enable the company to digitize its considerable microfilm vault of hundreds of millions of pages of historical newspapers. This article presents an interview with Kahn wherein he talked about the vision for Summon and ProQuest's other plans.