ProQuest
Corp. was formerly known as Bell & Howell Information &
Learning (BHIL)..
It was a subsidiary of
Bell &
Howell Corp., a
conglomerate of information and media products and services, which
purchased UMI
(the developer of the ProQuest
products) and renamed it Bell & Howell Information &
Learning.
The company is a major vendor in
the academic, public, and school library markets for article
databases with its ProQuest line of database products.