University of Waterloo

Administrative Staff, Library

Associate University Librarian, Discovery & Digital Services

About

Pascal provides executive leadership for a wide range of technology and metadata initiatives and services at the University of Waterloo Library.  Current efforts include open access scholarly communication, digital repositories, digital preservation, metadata operations, and web content management.

He is involved in project and personnel management, policy and program development, digital initiatives, and collaborative development of new information systems and services.

Pascal has also contributed to the Fedora project, the open source linux distribution and serves as a Fedora Ambassador for the project since 2008.  He has been a daily user of Linux and open source software since 2002.

Previously, Pascal was Head, Library Information Systems, University of Notre Dame.  Pascal led a team of 10 professionals providing enterprise computing systems and services for a consortium of five academic libraries around South Bend, IN, USA and hosted at the University of Notre Dame.  Services include Integrated Library Systems, resource discovery, metasearch, citation linking, digital asset management and digital library programming, application and project development, and server and database administration, amongst others. Prior to joining Notre Dame, Pascal served as Head, Library Information Systems, 2000-2004, and Advanced Technologies Librarian 1997-2000 at Virginia Commonwealth University.  He began his academic library career as Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) Assistant at the Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, 1995-1997.

Pascal holds a Master of Library and Information Services from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and a BA (Honours) in Political Science from The University of Western Ontario (London, Canada).

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