ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 24, 2005 - ProQuest Information and Learning will be the exclusive online distributor of the Los Angeles Times to library and education markets around the world beginning January 1, 2006. The Los Angeles Times is the winner of more than 30 Pulitzer Prizes and hundreds of other awards for excellence in journalism, and is the nation's largest daily metropolitan newspaper. ProQuest Information and Learning, a unit of ProQuest Company, is an electronic publisher of content for libraries and educational institutions worldwide.

The new agreement with the Los Angeles Times enhances a long-standing relationship between the two companies. ProQuest has long distributed the Los Angeles Times as a stand-alone and in a variety of ProQuest's popular Newsstand products. It's an integral part of ProQuest's California news offerings which include the San Francisco Chronicle,Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, Orange County Register, San Diego Union-Tribune, and Oakland Tribune. ProQuest also provides online access to the newspaper's archives through its ProQuest Historical Newspapers product.

The new agreement with the Los Angeles Times is one in a series of enhancements to the ProQuest news program. Each is aimed at building a menu of products that will address all library news needs from a single source. In the past 12 months, the company has announced digitization agreements with the Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, and Chicago Defender (the oldest African-American newspaper and the only daily of its kind), creating a flexible, comprehensive research archive (12 million digital pages in all). ProQuest also became distributor of NewspaperDirect, a unique delivery system through which libraries get direct, immediate access to over 250 international and domestic dailies in full-page format, allowing them to provide same-day international newspaper service to their patrons. Earlier this month, ProQuest announced expanded agreements with MediaNews that add significant new local content and an agreement to distribute online The Columbus Dispatch, central Ohio's largest daily. ProQuest's extensive current newspaper collection now includes more than 300 full-text papers from around the world. Coming later in 2005 is ProQuest's Latin American Newsstand, which will provide library patrons with easy access to Latin America's most prestigious newspapers.

For more information about ProQuest's news program visit on the Web at www.proquest.com or call 1-800-521-0600.

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