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Collections Management Criteria of the United Nations and Specialized Agencies Collections in the DAG Hammarskjold Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Nina K. Leneman
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The Dag Hammarskjold Library, being the main library of the United Nations system in view of its location at United Nations Headquarters in New York, has the unique responsibility of keeping a complete archival collection of all publications and documents issued by the United Nations, including its main and subsidiary organs and bodies. It maintains as well, comprehensive depository collections of the documentation of each of the specialized agencies and a selection of publications of United Nations and specialized agencies affiliated bodies. The Library also has a fairly complete collection of publications and documents of the League of Nations, in addition to the Woodrow Wilson Collection of books and pamphlets about the League and its period of history.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 12 , Issue 5-6 , December 1984 , pp. 195 - 214
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Copyright © 1984 by International Association of Law Libraries 

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References

1. An earlier version of this paper was published in the Proceedings of the 1980 Brussels Second World Symposium on International Documentation, see, UN document UNITAR/AIL/SYM.2/WP.II/26; International Documents for the 80's: Their Role and Use. Edited by Théodore Dimitrov and Luciana Marulli-Koenig. (Pleasantville, N.Y.: UNIFO Publishers, 1982).Google Scholar

2. An overall presentation of library activities and services was provided in: L. Marulli-Koenig, “The Dag Hammarskjold Library and United Nations Documentation”, UNESCO Bulletin for Libraries, Vol. XXXII, No. 1 (Jan-Mar 1978): art. 1, p. 5–14.Google Scholar

3. The Woodrow Wilson Foundation was an American institution which was active in international affairs during the inter-war period. The League's Princeton Office, which handled most of its economic and statistical research activities from 1940-1945. was located at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. N.J.Google Scholar

4. For more information about the DHL's UNBIS system, see: S. Singh and S. Sobel, “United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBIS)”, UNESCO Journal of Information Science, Librarianship and Archives Administration, Vol. II. No. 4 (Oct-Dec 1980): art. 85, p. 238–245.Google Scholar

5. For more details on this network, see: E. Levy, “United Nations Depository Library System”, UNESCO Journal of Information Science, Librarianship and Archives Administration, Vol. II, No. 1 (Jan-Mar 1980): art. 1, p. 5–12.Google Scholar

6. See also: Marulli-Koenig, L., “The Dag Hammarskjold Library and United Nations Microforms”, Microform Review, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Fall 1980): p. 236–242.Google Scholar

7. In addition to document series symbols, UN publications that are offered for sale carry UN sales numbers. As suggested in United Nations Documentation: A Brief Guide (N.Y., United Nations, 1981), these sales numbers reflect general subject categories and provide a broad classification scheme which can alternatively be used to organize smaller collections of UN documentation.Google Scholar