From 1996 to 1999, she was co-director of the National Reference Centre on Mycobacteria in the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

UNESCO: Science Policy and Capacity-Building

But the council said if the closures were approved areas would not lose community resources, and Birkenhead Library would be incorporated into plans for a reference library in the town centre.

BBC: Council plans to close libraries

Judges now have a scientific reference manual, put out by the Federal Judicial Centre (a government agency) to help them, and can attend courses run by the centre.

ECONOMIST: Science and the courts