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Dialog Announces Canadian Award Recipients

Toronto, June 10, 2002 — Dialog, a Thomson (TSX:TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, today announced Canadian winners for two awards given by the company.

The first of the Canadian winners is Linda Pauloski, the manager of the Library Resource Center at Dofasco, Inc. in Hamilton, Ontario, a steel manufacturer. She was designated as one of Dialog's Quantum2 InfoStar Award winners for 2002.

Dialog annually designates 12 recipients worldwide for its Quantum2 InfoStar Awards, given to information professionals in various countries whose creativity and innovation are inspirational to others. The award to Pauloski was announced at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) conference, being held this week in Los Angeles.

"Linda Pauloski truly is an inspiration to all of us in the information industry," Al Kennedy, general manager of Dialog's Canadian operations, said. "By making her library an integral part of Dofasco's success and a real strategic asset to the company, Linda has shown other information professionals what can be accomplished with hard work and imagination. We salute her."

The second award announced today, co-sponsored with SLA's Toronto chapter, is a stipend to a Canadian information sciences student to attend the SLA conference. This year's winner is Laura Anderson, a first-year student at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information Studies program.

Candidates for the annual Dialog/SLA Toronto Chapter Student Annual Conference Stipend were asked to write an essay based on the SLA Conference's theme of "Putting Knowledge To Work." Anderson's winning submission was titled, "Knowledge Management and Chief Knowledge Officers – A Lesson For Librarians."

Anderson's essay may be read at quantum.dialog.com.

"We are delighted to spotlight two of our Canadian colleagues with these awards," said Dialog's Kennedy. "We believe strongly in enhancing the role of information professionals within their organizations. Certainly all of us in the Canadian information profession can be proud of Linda and Laura."

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About Dialog
Founded in 1972 by Dr. Roger K. Summit, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, Dialog is the world leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law.

Today, Dialog's three online platforms — Dialog®, Profound® and DataStar™ — offer users the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.2 billion unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets. The content available ranges from articles and reports published in thousands of publications to in-depth repositories of patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data.

Corporate librarians, knowledge managers and other information professionals at more than 25,000 business, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for their depth and breadth of content, precision searching and speed.

Headquartered in Cary, N.C., USA, with direct operations in 32 countries throughout North American, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and the Asia Pacific, Dialog is a business of The Thomson Corporation. For more information about Dialog, please visit www.dialog.com. Or, please call (U.S./Canada) 800-3-DIALOG or (U.S.) 919-462-8600. Dialog's London office may be reached at (44) (0) 207-940-6900.

About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2001 revenues of $7.2 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information and technology to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto stock exchange (TSX:TOC).

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