International organisations 18. 54 "A" group

Collection development on a budget

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• UNESCO a major publisher in its own right – UNESCO Library gets (or should get !!) all UNESCO publications
• Library also benefits from donations of materials – individual books from interested academics through to occasional suites of furniture from generous governments
• Prioritises spending on online services and periodicals, and important reference resources
• Purchases materials where there is a clear relevance to UNESCO’s programmes and fields of interest
• UN Purchasing Consortium – UNSEIAC – for online subscriptions (often with paper journals thrown in for free)
• Money is tight – UNESCO targets spending on ‘frontline’

sectoral programmes rather than ‘support’ functions like the Library

• Elaborate financial procedures and inflexible bureaucratic controls have caused practical difficulties when managing Library budgets

Ongoing projects and future developments

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• Participation in the World Digital Library project
• Knowledge management initiatives
• Thesaurus compatibility project, with EU and other institutions
• Arabic and Chinese versions of UNESCO thesaurus
• Climate change resource
• Second Life
• Anything else I’ve forgotten !!

My contact details

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John Miller

Chief Librarian

UNESCO

7, place de Fontenoy

75352 Paris 07 SP

France

tel. [phone]

fax [phone]

e-mail: [e-mail]

http://www.unesco.org/library

TESTS

• 1.
• Which of the following is not associated with the UNO?
• A. ILO
• B. WHO
• C. ASEAN
• D. All of the above

2.

• 2.
• The chairmanship/presidency of the UN Security Council rotates among the Council Members
• A. every 6 months
• B. every 3 months
• C. every year
• D. every month