On June 6th, Dick Eastman wrote this in Eastman's Online Genealogy
Newsletter at
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/06/proquest_termin.html
.
"ProQuest announced today that they will be eliminating one valuable
genealogy service. The company will no longer offer
remote, in-home access to the members of genealogical and historical
societies."
I wasn't sure if that meant that ProQuest would be discontinuing
in-home access to the historical newspapers and
HeritageQuest Online both. The post below to the Godfrey Memorial
Library Help List seems to indicate that the answer might
very well be yes.
Presumably, the genealogical and historical societies that you're
members of have already notified you that your in-home
access will be terminating as of a certain date. If they haven't, you
may want to ask them to explain when in-home access
will terminate before you renew your membership!
Joy Rich
Brooklyn, NY
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http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GODFREY-LIBRARY-HELP/2006-06/1149886682
"I am writing to you because our records show that you have used
SABR's subscription to either ProQuest Historical
Newspapers or Heritage Quest in the past six months. Recently ProQuest
sent SABR a letter explaining a new business
decision to no longer offer remote access to genealogical or historical
societies, beginning at the end of the current
subscription year.
For SABR, that means beginning on January 1, 2007, SABR members will
no longer have remote access to the various
historical newspapers to which SABR subscribes, nor will we have access
to the HeritageQuest databases.
SABR will continue to seek out and make available research assets and
tools to fulfill
our mission of helping people do baseball research. The money currently
spent on these subscriptions will either be used
for such purposes or retained in our war chest for future uses.
ProQuest also points out that "a key component of the ProQuest mission
is to provide
public library users with historical newspaper and genealogy content, as
well as other data, through their local public
library, either on-site or remotely." They continue that
"[l]iterally millions of people are now enjoying free access to ProQuest
content through their local library." SABR will
attempt to make members aware of which libraries make remote access
available to library card holders. Already, we know
that Cleveland Public Library and the Boston Public Library have some
ProQuest databases available with remote access for
current library card holders.
Thank you for your support of SABR!
Sincerely,
John Zajc
Executive Director