"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.

ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and publishing information worldwide for researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. Known widely for its strength in business and economics, general reference, humanities, social sciences, and STM content, the company develops premium databases comprising periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, out-of-print books, and other scholarly information from more than 8,500 publishers worldwide.  Users access the information through the ProQuest® Web-based online information system, Chadwyck-Healey™ electronic and microform resources, UMI® microform and print reference products, eLibrary®, SIRS® and Voyager Expanded Learning educational resources.

For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit www.il.proquest.com.

ProQuest Information and Learning is a business unit of ProQuest Company (www.proquestcompany.com), which was twice named one of the top 100 fastest growing technology companies in the United States by Business 2.0 and one of the 200 best small companies by Forbes Magazine.