Susan Armstrong is manager, market strategy for Business Financial Services at RBC Royal Bank. As part of the client strategy group, Susan is responsible for identifying market opportunities by collecting and analysing competitive and other data, and for communicating competitive information across the network.

Brian Bell is a Director of AlouetteCanada, a national, not-for-profit initiative to promote digitization of Canadian content in libraries, museums, and archives. He is on 1-year secondment from the Oakville Public Library where he has been Director of E-Services since 1987. He is also Chair of the Technical Committee of Canadiana.org and sits on the planning committee for the Canadian Digital Information Strategy.

April Brousseau is currently a student-at-law at WeirFoulds LLP in Toronto. She recently completed a joint LLB and Masters of Library and Information Science degree at Dalhousie University. She will be called to the Bar in June 2007.

Joan Cavanagh has close to 20 years experience in information and reference services in public libraries. She has worked in Toronto, London and Nepean and is currently the Manager of Information Services at the Ottawa Public Library.

Olivier Charbonneau is a Business Librarian at Concordia University specializing in accountancy, management information systems and management science. He is a member of the Canadian Library Association’s Copyright Working Group, ASTED’s Comité sur le droit d’auteur and he represents his national francophone library association on the Executive Council of the Public Lending Right Commission of Canada.

Alison Colvin is currently Director, Information Services at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal of Ontario. In this position, she is reponsible for directing a Tribunal-wide knowledge management strategy. Prior to being at the Tribunal, she was the Director IM/IT at the Ontario Regional Office of the Department of Justice.

C. Anne Crocker is the former Head Law Librarian at the Gerard V. La Forest Law Library of the University of New Brunswick, from which she retired in June of 2006. She is a Past President of CALL/ACBD (1995-1997) and is currently Chair of the Last Copies Subcommittee of Preservation Needs of Law Libraries and a member of the LLMC Advisory Board.

The Honourable John Douglas Cunningham is the Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario. A former director of the Advocates’ Society of Ontario, he was first called to the Bench in 1991 as a Judge of the Ontario Court of Justice, General Division, in Ottawa.

Catherine Davidson is Associate University Librarian for Collections at York University in Toronto. She brings a public service perspective to the position, having been a reference librarian for 16 years along with brief stints as electronic resources coordinator.

Paulette Dozois is an archivist at Library and Archives Canada. Her career has taken her in many different directions, including work as a private records archivist with the Mackenzie King papers and as a government records archivist at the then National Archives, secondment to the Directorate of History at the Department of National Defence, and heading the Foreign Affairs Portfolio at Library and Archives Canada.

Peter de Jager is a speaker/writer/consultant on the issues relating to the Rational Assimilation of the Future. He has published hundreds of articles on topics ranging from Problem Solving, Creativity and Change to the impact of technology on areas such as privacy, security and business. His articles have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Futurist and Scientific American.

Rick Dearden is a senior litigation partner in the Ottawa office of Gowlings and practices primarily in the areas of international trade and customs law as well as media and defamation law. He was involved in the negotiation and implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. He has argued media law cases before every level of court in Ontario, the Federal Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada and he acted for the Office of the Auditor General throughout the hearings of the Commission of Inquiry Into The Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities (Gomery Inquiry).

Paulette Dozois is an archivist at Library and Archives Canada. Her career has taken her in many different directions, including work as a private records archivist with the Mackenzie King papers and as a government records archivist at the then National Archives, secondment to the Directorate of History at the Department of National Defence, and heading the Foreign Affairs Portfolio at Library and Archives Canada.

Susanna Duke is Knowledge Coordinator for Stewart McKelvey, Atlantic Canada’s largest regional law firm, where she is responsible for managing the content of the firm’s knowledge portal. Prior to that, she spent 3 years as Director, Legal Information Management for the Newfoundland Department of Justice, ten years as Information Coordinator for Newfoundland Power and nine years as Law Librarian for the Law Society of Newfoundland.

Barbara Fradkin is a child psychologist and award-winning novelist with a fascination with how we turn bad. Her novels explore the complex psychological and emotional underpinnings that drive people to act. There are currently five novels in the Inspector Green detective series, each inspired by an experience or theme that intrigued or troubled her, and she is hard at work on the sixth.

Jean Gasnault, from the Paris office of the international law firm of Gide Loyrette Nouel , is the president of Juriconnexion, an association of legal database users that is a member of the editorial committee of Legifrance, the government of France’s official legal information portal. Gide Loyrette Nouel is co-author of the Doctrinal database, the premiere electronic collection of French legal commentary.

Susan Haigh is Senior Policy Officer at Library and Archives Canada, where she is currently policy lead toward a collaborative Canadian digital information strategy. Susan has also managed partnerships for the National Library’s Digital Library Task Force. Her professional interests tend to focus on digitization, digital preservation, user research and open access initiatives.

Janis L. Johnston is the Director, Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Memorial Law Library and an Associate Professor of Law and of Library Administration at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois. She served as President of the American Association of Law Libraries, 2003-2004 and Treasurer, 1998-2001. She is currently chair of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance, a coalition of academic and court law libraries.

Gay Lepkey is the Manager of the Depository Services Program. Since the mid-1970's, he has worked as either a librarian or as a library technician in a number of federal government libraries including the National Library (now Library and Archives Canada) and the Supreme Court Library. He was the editor of the Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus from 2000 to 2005 and of the Government of Canada Guide to Controlled Vocabularies.

Calum MacLeod is a Case Management Master in Ottawa and is the interim President of the Canadian Association of Masters, Prothonotaries and Registrars in Bankruptcy. He also holds the designation of Chartered Mediator and has been involved in resolving hundreds of disputes in many different fields of law.

Nancy McCormack is the Head, Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law at Queen's University. She teaches an upper year legal research course for LL.B students as well as a research and writing course for graduate students in law.

Barbara A. McIsaac is the Managing Partner of the Ottawa office of McCarthy Tétrault where she practices mainly in the areas of public and administrative law and commercial litigation. She is co-author of The Law of Privacy in Canada, the foremost Canadian privacy law text. She served as Senior Counsel to the Somalia Inquiry and Senior Counsel for the Government of Canada to the Arar Inquiry.

The Hon. Mr. Justice Colin McKinnon, a former managing partner at the Ottawa law firm of Beament, Green, was appointed a judge of the Ontario Court (General Division) in 1996, now the Superior Court of Justice. He has served on the Chief Justice's Education Committee, and is the immediate past President of the Ontario Superior Court Judges' Association. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of CRIMJI (Canadian Criminal Jury Instructions).

Jan Michaels is the Director of the LAC Transformation at Library and Archives Canada as well as interim Director of Strategic Policy there. Her responsibilities involve helping to shape a multi-year, major change initiative to make LAC much more client-focused; to mainstream digital in all of LAC’s activities; and to refocus LAC’s efforts to serve all Canadians while working in partnership with the library, archives, information management and museum communities.

John Miller is the Chief Librarian at UNESCO. His professional experience ranges from working in the libraries of the College of Europe in Bruges, Radio Free Europe, the European Commission and in various London law firm libraries to consultancy work on information service development projects for law firms in the UK, Albania, Laos, Malaysia and elsewhere. He is the former Vice-Chair of BIALL (British and Irish Association of Law Librarians).

Ann Morrison is the Chief Law Librarian at Dalhousie University in Halifax where she teaches the first year compulsory legal research and writing course, co-teaches the advanced legal research course and is a lecturer at the Library School. She is a past president of CALL and the Secretary of the International Association of Law Libraries.

Anne M. Mullins is a Barrister & Solicitor with the Ottawa law firm Augustine Bater Polowin. Her practice covers advocacy and mediation in insurance matters, personal injury, disability claims, professional negligence, employment law, as well as corporate and commercial litigation.

Erin Murphy is the Reference Services Librarian & Intranet Content Co-ordinator at Stikeman Elliott LLP in Toronto, where she has worked for the past nine years. She is also a member of the Toronto office's Knowledge Management Team.

Wendy Newman is currently Senior Fellow, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, following a distinguished career in librarianship and public policy advocacy. As an advocate,she has served on such national bodies as the National Broadband Task Force, the Blue Ribbon Panel on Smart Communities, the LibraryNet Advisory Board, and the Board of Directors of the Media Awareness Network, which she now chairs. She is a former President of the Canadian Library Association and the Canadian Association of Public Libraries.

David M. Paciocco is a Professor, University of Ottawa, Common Law Section where he currently teaches Evidence, Criminal Law and Trusts. He also conducts a specialized criminal and Charter practice consisting primarily of appeals, motions and opinion work. He is co-author of The Law of Evidence, Irwin Law, 1996 (fourth edition July 2005); co-author of Jury Selection in Criminal Trials: Skills, Science and the Law, Irwin Law, 1997, and author of Charter Principles and Proof in Criminal Cases, Carswell, 1987 and of Getting Away with Murder: The Canadian Criminal Justice System, Irwin Law, 1999.

Frédéric Pelletier works at the LexUM laboratory at the Université de Montréal to develop standards and policies regarding the preparation and dissemination of legal materials on the Internet. In addition to his editorial work for CanLII's website, he acts as co-ordinator of the Canadian Citation Committee and is a regular contributor to the Canadian Judicial Council's Judges Technology Advisory Committee.

Daniel Poulin is a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal where he teaches in the Cyberspace Law Program. He is also the director of LexUM, the foremost laboratory in Canada working on the computerization of law. Systems designed and implemented by LexUM include the CanLII, Juris International and Portail du droit francophone websites.

Sonia Poulin is director of the Brian Dickson Law Library at the University of Ottawa where she is also in charge of the Legal Research Program. She has in depth experience in the private and academic sectors in five provinces in both official languages and in both common and civil law.

Ruth Sonksen has been a Liaison Librarian, Macdonald Campus Library, McGill University since February 2007. She was a Cataloguing Librarian at McGill from 2001 to February 2007.

Roslyn Theodore-McIntosh is the Director of the Scott Library & Information Centre at Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP in Toronto. She also works with the other Gowlings library managers on national library
and information service initiatives.

Leslie Weir is the University Librarian at the University of Ottawa. In May 2007, she becomes President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Leslie is a member of the Board of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Chair of the Task Group on Access to Scholarly Information Resources, the group charged by the Council of Ontario University Libraries with the implementation of its Scholars Portal, and she was active in the development of Sm@rtLibraries.

William Wueppelmann works at Canadiana.org, formerly known as CIHM, where he manages and develops the systems relating to the digitization and delivery of Early Canadiana Online. To date, Early Canadiana Online has put over two and a quarter million digitized images online.

Updated: May 4, 2007