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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:23:01 LCL
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- Subject: Majors/EBSCO Press Release
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- EBSCO Industries, Inc. and Majors Scientific Books, Inc. are
- pleased to announce the acquisition of the Majors Scientific
- Subscriptions Division by EBSCO Subscription Services.
- Majors Scientific Books, Inc., the largest health science book
- distributor in the country, will now focus its full resources on book
- distribution and information systems to the health science and
- technical library communities. Majors will retain its Continuations
- Department with no change in that service. With this acquisition,
- EBSCO becomes the largest agent for subscriptions to health science
- libraries and institutions. Majors and EBSCO look forward to sharing
- information and to providing joint reporting to benefit their mutual
- customers.
- Since 1909, Majors has been well known in the book and subscription
- services industry for exceptional service to medical libraries.
- Personal service has been its hallmark, and this philosoph will
- continue, according to F. Dixon Brooke, Jr., Vice President and EBSCO
- Subscription Services General Manager. EBSCO's international presence,
- with 27 offices worldwide, will have a positive influence on service
- to biomedical and hospital libraries, as these clients commonly
- subscribe to a high percentage of non-USA titles. Additionally,
- EBSCO has developed electronic interfaces with over 50 integrated
- library systems, providing time-saving and accurate transmission of
- data for retrospective conversion of serial records, electronic
- invoices, ordering, claiming and access to the Internet.
- Both companies look forward to service the library community in
- Both companies look forward to serving the library community inthe future
- and feel that these changes will facilitate this goal.
-