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Guy Berthiaume

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Librarian and Archivist of Canada Emeritus
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Guy Berthiaume is Librarian and Archivist of Canada Emeritus. Formerly, he led the Quebec National Library and Archives and spent two decades at the apex of institutions of culture, research and higher education in Quebec and France.
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Guy Berthiaume is Librarian and Archivist of Canada Emeritus.  From June 2014 to August 2019, he served as Librarian and Archivist of Canada. Previously, he was President and CEO of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (2009 to 2014), after a career in academia spanning more than 30 years.  He holds a doctorate in history from the Université de Paris VIII.

As well as being a professor of ancient history at UQAM, he has worked in the fields of research administration and university development. He was Vice-Rector, Development and Public Relations at Université de Montréal and Vice-Rector, Research and Creation at UQAM.

Guy Berthiaume is a Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes académiques (2006) and Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République française (2017).  In 2012 he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, and in 2020 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada.

He holds honorary doctorates from Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne (2012), the University of Ottawa (2018) and Dalhousie University (2021).

In May 2023, his memoirs were published under the title Mes grandes bibliothèques. Mes archives. Mes mémoires (del Busso éditeur).