[WEB4LIB] Questia

[Gimon, Charles A]

Oddly enough, I saw a TV commercial for Questia last weekend. (During, of
all things, "Talk Soup" on the E! cable channel.) Not that that's any
indication of a company's solvency or lack thereof, as we've seen from the
dot-com meltdown...

--Charles Gimon
  Web Coordinator
  Minneapolis Public Library
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sloan, Bernie [mailto:bernies at uillinois.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:30 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Questia
> 
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> 
> For those of you interested in Questia, here's a recent news 
> item from the
> Houston Chronicle:
> 
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/903977

It appears that they are reducing staffing levels, and slowing the pace at
which they'd been digitizing books.

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
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