ProQuest offers tools and services that help librarians connect with their user communities, free database access and scholarship support for library students, and an award to recognize outstanding library school educators.

Library School Program
Library school students can use our databases free of charge during the school term. Click for more information and application form.

ALA/ProQuest Scholarship Bash
ProQuest is the major sponsor of this popular event, which funds scholarships for minority library students.

Library Journal/ProQuest Teaching Award
The LJ Teaching Award, sponsored by ProQuest, recognizes excellence in educating the next generation of librarians. The award is bestowed upon an educator who has a record of communicating core principles of librarianship, integration of theory, practice, and research, mentorship, and forward thinking.

The inaugural award and $5000 prize was presented to Toni Samek, associate professor at the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, at the 2008 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia.