Le jour où j'ai gagné une boîte de chocolats suisses sur le site de Health On the Net (ne vous précipitez pas, le jeu n'existe plus…).
= Et votre pire souvenir?
Les dérives du courrier électronique: des mal élevés qui profitent de la distance ou d'un certain anonymat pour dire des choses pas très gentilles, ou adopter des attitudes franchement puériles, avec, hélas, des conséquences qui ne sont pas toujours celles d'un monde d'enfant… Par exemple, une personne a un jour profité de ce que je lui avait fait copie d'un message, pensant que le sujet l'intéresserait, pour intervenir entre mon interlocuteur et moi, et me discréditer.
[EN] Bruno Didier (Paris)
#Webmaster of the Pasteur Institute Library
"The Pasteur Institutes (…) are exceptional observatories for studying infectious and parasite-borne diseases. They are wedded to the solving of practical public health problems, and hence carry out research programmes which are highly original because of the complementary nature of the investigations carried out: clinical research, epidemiological surveys and basic research work. Just a few examples from the long list of major topics of the Institutes are: malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, yellow fever, dengue and poliomyelitis." (extract of the website)
* Interview of August 10, 1999 (original interview in French)
= Can you tell us about the website you've created?
The main aim of the Pasteur Institute Library website is to serve the Institute itself and its associated bodies. It supports applications that have became essential in such a big organization: bibliographic databases, cataloging, ordering of documents and of course access to online periodicals (presently more than 100). It's also a window for our different departments, at the Institute but also elsewhere in France and abroad. It plays a big part in documentation exchanges with the institutes in the worldwide Pasteur network. I'm trying to make it an interlink adapted to our needs for exploration and use of the Internet. The website has existed in its present form since 1996 and its audience is steadily increasing.
= What exactly is your professional activity?