In 2015, the Dag Hammarskjöld Library continued to work hard to answer your information needs and make our resources more easily accessible.
We are happy to support the work of the UN Secretariat and diplomatic missions to the UN.
Some of Our Accomplishments in 2015!
1. Bringing the latest news and research to UN staff around the world
The United Nations System Electronic Information Acquisition Consortium (UNSEIAC) brought some 70 electronic information sources to over 85,000 United Nations staff working around the world. UNSEIAC subscribes to electronic information for 57 different United Nations departments, offices, funds and programmes - negotiating discounts, cutting back on the duplication of administrative tasks, and helping UN staff access the information they need.
2. Making documents of the UN digitally available
The Library digitized 17,000 documents or 570,000 pages in 2015! Among the digitized documents, some highlighted series were the UN Charter in 45 languages, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Official Records in English, and the General Assembly Official Record Annexes. Since the
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and the UN Office in Geneva’s Library commenced digitization of important historic UN documents in 1998, a total of 380,000 documents or 5 million pages have been digitized.
3. Creating Multilingual Library Resources
The library continues to develop and expand our multilingual online services and resources. Some of our successes in 2015 include making The UN Documentation Research Guide available entirely in Spanish, and the Library’s Research Guide on the History of the drafting of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights was made available in French.
4. Our Training Programme Continues to Grow
We had almost 800 participants in our training classes this year and offered 75 training sessions. There are more training session to come in 2016 so check out our training calendar to see what we’re offering in the new year!
5. Inter-Library Loan Requests Increase
Our clients have been using DAG Discovery to find articles and books that are sometimes not in our collections. But that doesn’t stop the Library from fulfilling your needs! The Library has the ability to borrow books/journal articles from other partner libraries on behalf of our clients. This year we received more than 600 inter-library loan requests, a 50% increase from last year.
6. Celebrating the UN’s 70th Anniversary
The Library was proud to take part in celebrating the 70th anniversary of the United Nations by creating the online exhibit 70 Years, 70 Documents.
Over 1.6 million people have seen the exhibit and related content on the Dag Hammarskjöld Library website (40,000 views), on Library-branded social media channels (1.5 million views on Twitter & Facebook), and our Tumblr blog (60,000 views).
A Peek at 2016
Stay tuned for 2016 which promises to be an exciting year. We will launch the highly anticipated digital library as well as a brand new library website!
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