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Dialog Awards Scholarship to University of Tennessee's Ann Clapp

NASHVILLE, Tenn., USA (June 8, 2004) — Dialog, a Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, announced today that Ann M. Clapp, a graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been awarded its 2004 Roger K. Summit Scholarship.

The $5,000 award, named in honor of the founder and current chairman emeritus of Dialog, will help Clapp pursue additional studies in the management of academic libraries.

Dialog made the announcement during a ceremony at the 94th Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association meeting here this week.

Clapp graduated this year with a Master of Science degree from the University of Tennessee's distance learning program. Working from her home near Nashville, Clapp pursued her School of Information studies while also caring for a child and helping to manage her family's farm. She earned an Academic Achievement Award this year.

Clapp is also an advocate of the Tennessee Electronic Library, which provides online educational and research services to libraries across the state. She has visited state legislators to lobby for funding and currently works with families of home-schooled children to teach them how to best use the online resource.

"We are delighted to award Ann with this year's scholarship and especially to do so right here in her home state," said Libby Trudell, Dialog senior vice president, information professional development. "Ann did a great job at UT-Knoxville, and her passion for the Tennessee Electronic Library is impressive. We have no doubt that she will continue to make a real contribution to Tennessee and librarianship as her career progresses."

Prior to her studies at UT-Knoxville, Clapp worked as a manager for a bookstore chain. She also has completed a bibliographic instruction program at Middle Tennessee State University and worked in a public library in Franklin, Tennessee. Clapp earned her undergraduate degree from Lipscomb University in Nashville, with a major in English and a minor in music.

Dialog awards Summit Scholarships in different parts of the world each year to graduate students in accredited library and information science programs with demonstrated academic achievement, keen interest in electronic information services, proficiency in using Dialog's online services and products and strong recommendations from their faculty.

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About Dialog and The Thomson Corporation
Dialog, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, 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, the online services provided by Dialog — offered through the Dialog®, Dialog Profound®, Dialog DataStar™, Dialog NewsEdge® and Dialog Intelliscope^SM brands — give users the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.4 billion unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets. Searchable content includes articles and reports from thousands of real-time news feeds, newspapers, broadcast transcripts and trade publications, plus research reports and analyst notes providing support for financial decision-making, as well as in-depth repositories of scientific and technical data, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data. Information professionals and end-users at business, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for their depth and breadth of content, precision searching and speed.

Based in Cary, N.C., USA, Dialog has operations in 31 other countries. Dialog (www.dialog.com) is a business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). With 2003 revenues of US$7.6 billion, Thomson (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers.

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