An International Workshop
Creating the Information Commons for e-Science:
Toward Institutional Policies and Guidelines for Action
 UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
1-2 September 2005


Bernard Dumouchel - Biography

Bernard Dumouchel is a career librarian and information specialist, with Bachelor's degrees in history and library science, and an M.L.S. from the University of Western Ontario's School of Library and Information Science (now the Faculty of Information and Media Studies). He began his career in 1970 as a community college librarian. In 1982, he joined the Library of Parliament as Director, Technical Services Branch. In 1987, he came to the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) as Director, Resource Development. He became Director General of CISTI in 1998 after having served in an acting capacity since Fall 1997.
 
CISTI is the largest scientific, technical and medical (STM) library in North America, and the most important sci/tech publisher in Canada. As Director General, Mr. Dumouchel envisions CISTI as a key driving force in the exploitation of scientific information. He aims to strengthen CISTI's position as a knowledge broker, providing high-value and specialized STM information and publishing services to researchers and innovators in the academic, private and public sectors. Equally important is his work to establish CISTI as a world leader in harnessing the power of digital STM information and facilitating its exploitation. Under his leadership, CISTI is working with information organizations in Canada and abroad to develop a national "infostructure" to provide universal, seamless and permanent access to the world's STM information.
 
Mr. Dumouchel holds several positions in the broader library community, including Vice-chair of the Council of Federal Libraries, Vice-president of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), and President of the OCLC Canada Advisory Council. He is also a member of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries and of the Association of Research Libraries.
 
In 2001, he was honoured by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries with the Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship Award and, in 2005, by the National Research Council with an Outstanding Achievement Award.