ProQuest is offering webinars to introduce Statistical Abstracts.

Published annually by the Federal Government since 1878, The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the best-known statistical reference publication in the country, and perhaps, the world. You'll find it behind nearly every reference desk in U.S. libraries as the authoritative go-to source.

In the spring of 2011, the Census Bureau announced that the edition that year would be the last one produced at government expense. Despite protests from librarians and journalists and despite petitions to Congress, the Census Bureau unit that published the Statistical Abstract was eliminated. Its elimination resulted not from a decline in the popularity or perceived value of statistical compilations, but from the need to reduce agency spending while supporting new and existing data collection efforts.

ProQuest has now taken on responsibility for updating and releasing this publication, the most used statistical reference tool in U.S. libraries. We bring to this task 35 years of experience acquiring, abstracting, and indexing Federal Government statistical publications and tables.

Please attend this short webinar to learn more about the ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States – available in the Fall of 2012 – by clicking on one of the links below and registering:

Introduction to the ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States
Friday, August 24, 2012
3:30 PM (Eastern Time)

Introduction to the ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States
Friday, August 31, 2012
11:00 AM (Eastern Time)