ANN ARBOR, Mich., December 21, 2005 - ProQuest Information and Learning announced today the appointment of Marilyn Quinsaat as Vice President of Publishing. Ms. Quinsaat will oversee all publishing activities for the school library offerings, including eLibrary®, SIRS®, CultureGramsTM, and K-12 ProQuest® product lines. Ms. Quinsaat will report to Al DeSeta, president of ProQuest's K-12 business segment.

"Marilyn's strong curriculum expertise will prove invaluable as we continue to make our existing products more strongly aligned to the curriculum and as we develop new offerings that resonate with today's educators," said DeSeta.

Ms. Quinsaat joins ProQuest with a wealth of experience in developing and marketing electronic supplemental education products. She has more than 25 years experience in education and executive management for industry leaders such as Bank Street College of Education, Education Development Center, Inc., MediaShare Corporation, Computer Curriculum Corporation, and Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. She was most recently Senior Vice President at CompassLearning, a subsidiary of WRCMedia.

Ms. Quinsaat has directed the creation of curriculum products for organizations as diverse as Sunburst, Addison-Wesley, Girls Inc., and The Boys and Girls Clubs of America. She has a strong customer perspective, developed during the early portion of her career as a classroom teacher and later as computer resource coordinator in the San Diego County school system. Within this capacity, she pioneered the use of microcomputers in schools and conducted seminal research in this field in the late 70s and 80s.

"The ongoing expansion and commitment of ProQuest in the K-12 market makes this an exciting time to join the company," said Quinsaat. "I am eager to apply my curricular knowledge to strengthen the bridges into the classroom for ProQuest's existing portfolio of exceptional learning content and cutting edge-technology."

ProQuest has a deep commitment to supporting teaching and learning and has great reach in the K-12 market.  Since 1938, ProQuest Information and Learning has served as a global leader in collecting, organizing and distributing value-added information to researchers, faculty, and students in libraries, government, universities, and schools in more than 160 countries.

ProQuest's growing portfolio of K-12 solutions includes CultureGrams, eLibrary, ExploreLearning Gizmos, Reading A-Z, SIRS, and Voyager Expanded Learning.

About ProQuest
ProQuest creates specialized information resources and technologies that propel successful research, discovery, and lifelong learning. A global leader in serving libraries of all types, ProQuest offers the expertise of such respected brands as Chadwyck-Healey™, UMI®, SIRS®, and eLibrary®. With Serials Solutions®, Ulrich's™, RefWorks®, COS™, Dialog® and now Bowker® part of the ProQuest brand family, the company supports the breadth of the information community with innovative discovery solutions that power the business of books and the best in research experience.

More than a content provider or aggregator, ProQuest is an information partner, creating indispensable research solutions that connect people and information. Through innovative, user-centered discovery technology, ProQuest offers billions of pages of global content that includes historical newspapers, dissertations, and uniquely relevant resources for researchers of any age and sophistication—including content not likely to be digitized by others. Inspired by its customers and their end users, ProQuest is working toward a future that blends information accessibility with community to further enhance learning and encourage lifelong enrichment.

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