Proquest announced last week that the president of Bowker (who provides us with Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory and Global Books in Print) has been named the Proquest Chief Operating Officer under a new agreement merging the Bowker and Proquest companies.  See the full press release here.

According to our Bowker representative, Bowker will still be operating as an independent company for the foreseeable future, with no discernable changes to their current projects, including their AquaBrowser faceted search product and their adaptation of Library Thing for Libraries.