Guylaine Beaudry

Guylaine Beaudry is the Trenholme Dean of Libraries at McGill University, where she is leading the creation of a new library complex: The Fiat Lux Project. She was previously Vice-Provost, Digital Strategy and University Librarian at Concordia University (Montreal) and led the major renovation of the Webster Library and the university-wide digital strategy. She was before the Executive Director of Érudit (www.erudit.org), a publishing platform for humanities and social sciences scholarly books and journals. She wrote many publications on scholarly publishing, notably, the books La communication scientifique et le numérique, (Hermès/Lavoisier, Paris), Le nouveau monde numérique et les revues scientifiques (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal (PUM) and La Découverte, Paris, France), that was translated and published by University of Calgary Press (Scholarly Journals in the New Digital World) and Profession: bibliothécaire (PUM). In 2019, she was elected to fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada and served in 2014 on its Expert Panel on the status and future of libraries and archives in Canada. She holds a doctorate in history of the book from École pratique des hautes études (Paris). Her thesis is entitled “Scholarly communications and the digital revolution: Analysis of a mutation period from a historical perspective”.