EBSCO Industries, Inc. celebrates its 60th year of serving the library and business communities in 2004.

"It has been exciting to work with a firm that is committed to superior service and has consistently managed outstanding growth," said F. Dixon Brooke Jr., vice president and division general manager, EBSCO Information Services. "Along with our 60th anniversary, we're also celebrating our achievement of becoming an industry leader, a position that is both gratifying and humbling."

In 1944, EBSCO Industries, Inc. founder Elton B. Stephens and his wife, Alys Robinson Stephens, formed a partnership to sell magazines, personalized binders and racks to the U.S. Armed Forces.

Today, under the name EBSCO Information Services, Stephens' original vision has expanded into a group of companies providing information access and management solutions through print and electronic journal subscription services, research database development and production, online access to more than 100 databases and thousands of e-journals, and e-commerce book procurement. With more than 30 offices located in 19 countries around the world, EBSCO serves libraries in the academic, medical, government, public and school markets, as well as corporations and other organizations.

Contact: Rebecca C. Walden Corporate Communications Office: (205) 980-6794 Cell: (205) 281-7111 rwalden@ebsco.com

Release Date: Jan. 9, 2004