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The Dialog Corporation announces the 2000 Roger K. Summit Scholarship

Cary, N.C. and London, England, Feb. 24th, 2000: The Dialog Corporation (LSE: DLG, NASDAQ: DIAL), a leading provider of Internet- and Intranet-based information, knowledge management, technology and eCommerce solutions, is seeking applicants worldwide for the 2000 Roger K. Summit Scholarship.

The $5,000 annual scholarship is awarded to graduate students in accredited library and information science programs. The application deadline is March 31, and the winner will be announced in June at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in Philadelphia.

Information professionals and university professors on The Dialog Corporation's Library and Information Science Teaching Advisory Board will select the winner after reviewing academic achievement, faculty recommendations, interest in electronic information services, and proficiency using The Dialog Corporation's online services and products.

The Dialog Corporation created the Library and Information Science Teaching Advisory Board to serve as a resource to LIS programs everywhere. The mandate of the board is to develop strategies to prepare the next generation of information professionals for successful and exciting careers in the field.

The scholarship is named after Dr. Roger K. Summit. At the Lockheed Corporation during the 1960's, Dr. Summit was the designer and project manager for DIALOG — which was then launched as the world's first commercially available online information retrieval system in 1972. Dr. Summit continued in various executive capacities, first within Lockheed and later as President and Chief Executive Officer of Dialog Information Services Inc., until his retirement in 1992. Five years later, Dr. Summit renewed his relationship with Dialog by being appointed Chairman Emeritus of The Dialog Corporation in December 1997.

Commenting on today's announcement, Patrick Sommers, Dialog's Chief Operating Officer, said: "Roger has always been an enthusiastic supporter for library and information science education. We're proud to honor his contributions with this scholarship to recognize outstanding students in the field."

Graduate students interested in applying for the scholarship can find more information and apply online at: http://gep.dialog.com/scholarship.

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About Dialog
Dialog is the worldwide leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law. Its products and services, such as Dialog®, Profound® and DataStar™, offer organizations the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 800 million unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise Intranets. For almost three decades, Dialog's brands have been known for their breadth and depth of content, precision searching and speed. The Winter Corporation recently recognized Dialog for its breadth and depth of content when they named the company the Grand Prize-winner in the Database Scalability Program 2000.

Headquartered in Cary, N.C., USA, with direct operations in 30 countries, Dialog products are used by more than 20,000 corporate customers in over 100 countries. Dialog is a subsidiary of The Thomson Corporation, a leading global e-information and solutions company in the business and professional marketplace with 2000 revenues of approximately $6 billion. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto (TSE:TOC) and London stock exchanges.

For more information about Dialog, call 1-800-3-DIALOG or visit www.dialog.com. For more information about Thomson, visit www.thomson.com.

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