ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest Company's (NYSE: PQE) Information and Learning unit and Safari(SM) Books Online(SM), LLC announced an agreement today that will grant ProQuest exclusive distribution rights of Safari(SM) Tech Books Online(SM) to academic, public, and K-12 libraries and non-exclusive rights for government libraries. The Safari Tech Books Online library edition, currently under development by ProQuest and Safari, is scheduled for release later this month. The Web-based service allows library patrons to conduct online searches of more than 20 technical categories from Networking to Java to Microsoft's .Net. Safari Books Online is a joint venture between the industry's leading information technology publishers: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. and The Pearson Technology Group. Safari's flagship service, Safari(SM) Tech Books Online(SM), is a comprehensive online information retrieval service for information technology students and enterprise-level IT departments. The service enables enterprises, information portals, associations, libraries, and universities to offer Web-based access to an exclusive collection of highly acclaimed reference content from industry-leading technical publishers: O'Reilly & Associates and Pearson imprints Addison-Wesley Professional, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que, and Sams. More information about Safari Books Online is available at http://safaribooksonline.com....

ProQuest and Safari (SM) Join Forces to Launch Online Information Retrieval Service to Libraries