Professor Ménard completed her Ph.D. at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal. She holds a Master Degree in Information Studies, a Master degree in Translation, and a Bachelor Degree in Translation from the same university. Her teaching expertise includes indexing, cataloguing, classification and information retrieval. Her main research interests deal with image indexing and retrieval, cross-language information retrieval, and metadata. Professor Ménard has published in a number of scholarly journals, including Documentation et Bibliothèques, The Indexer, Journal of Information Ethics, Knowledge Organization, and Library Hi Tech. She has presented papers at conferences such as ACFAS, ASIS&T, CAIS-ACSI, ISKO, ISKO France, ISKO North America, ISKO UK, HCII Conference, and LIDA.