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Dialog Announces 2002 North American Roger K. Summit Scholarship Winner

LOS ANGELES, 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 that Rachel Anne Kirk, from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, is the winner of the company's Roger K. Summit Scholarship award for the North American region.

Dialog made the announcement during a ceremony at the 93rd Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association, meeting here this week.

"The pool of applicants from the U.S. and Canada was particularly strong this year," said Libby Trudell, Dialog senior vice president of information professional market development. "Rachel Kirk is an outstanding choice. She has already demonstrated ability as an evangelist for electronic information, and we are delighted to help her proceed with her studies."

In addition to her current graduate work, Kirk recently accepted a teaching position at Middle Tennessee State University.

Kirk also holds a master's degree in accounting. She has worked in the University of Tennessee's Hodges Library and at its Innovative Technology Center, where she supported technology-training programs for faculty. She also was a research assistant for the National Sciences Foundation's Digital Libraries initiative.

In addition to her studies, Kirk is active in professional associations. She is currently president of the student chapter of the American Society of Information Science & Technology and has attended its national conferences.

"It is a real honor to receive this scholarship from Dialog," Kirk said. "My goal is to teach college students how to use electronic information services to better undertake research in their academic pursuits. This prize will help me move toward that goal, and I am grateful to Dialog."

Summit Scholarships, awarded in different parts of the world, are given annually to graduate students in accredited library and information science programs who demonstrate academic achievement, keen interest in electronic information services and proficiency in using Dialog's online services and products, and also have strong recommendations from their faculty. Winners are determined by information professionals and educators based locally in each of the regions, and by Dialog staff.

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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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