ProQuest has signed an agreement to acquire Ex Libris

from ProQuest

I’m pleased to inform you that ProQuest has signed an agreement to acquire Ex Libris, a world leader in library automation solutions.

This acquisition will bring together our companies’ complementary capabilities and skills, which include expertise in print and digital resources, the development of pioneering discovery and library management solutions, and deep content relationships that have created leading metadata repositories. Combining Ex Libris’ full suite of solutions and deep expertise with ProQuest’s breadth of content and innovative software solutions will help us fulfill our commitment to empowering researchers and transforming research around the world.

Ex Libris, like ProQuest, has a consistent track record of successfully bringing new and innovative solutions to libraries around the world. The combination of ProQuest and Ex Libris will enhance our existing software solutions and integrate with our customers’ and partners’ workflows more deeply than ever before. We will continue to make our current solutions available, and we will enhance and improve them. In addition, we will build new and innovative solutions that address customers’ evolving needs.

For more information about this announcement, please read our news release and our Blog post. We hope you share in our excitement about this announcement and about our future together.

We expect you will have questions now and in the future. Your Account and Customer Care representatives can answer specific questions. Alternatively, please feel free to submit your comments or questions via email to WeListen@ProQuest.com or via our Customer Care website at http://www.proquest.com/customer-care/. We’re committed to keeping you informed.

Thank you for being a valued customer and partner.

Sincerely,

Kurt Sanford
CEO, ProQuest