UN Libraries and Information Centres

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library 

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, is a depository library of
the United Nations, holding Scandinavia's most complete collection of UN documents in print covering the period 1946-1992. For more recent documents it has access to electronic archives and special databases. A special UN Librarian is designated for reference service, information retrieval and teaching UN documentation.

Other UN Libraries in Sweden 

UN collections can be found in the Parliamentary Library, Stockholm, and in the libraries at the universities of Gothenbourg and Lund.

Central Libraries of the United Nations Organization

The UN Central Libraries are the Dag Hammarskjöld Library at UN Headquarters, New York, and the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) Library, which also includes the archives of the League of Nations. 

Other UN Central Libraries are:

• The United Nations Information Service Reference Library in Vienna
• The Library of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Santiago, Chile
• United Nations University, UNU Library, Tokyo
• Library of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, The ESCWA Library, Beirut
• Library of the Economic Commission for Africa, The ECA Library, Addis Ababa
• Library of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, The United Nations ESCAP Library, Bangkok
• Sergio Vieira de Mello Library, Nairobi
• Library of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, The ICTR Library, Arusha

Depository Libraries 

Through a worldwide system of UN depository libraries, all members of the United Nations have free access to documents, reports, books and other printed and electronic resources. 

Information Centres 

The network of United Nations information centres (UNICs), services (UNIS) and offices (UNOs) links the Headquarters with people around the world. The Regional United Nations Information Centre for Western Europe, UNRIC is located in Brussels. 

UN Associations 

In order to provide information on and raise public opinion about the UN within its members states, there are national UN associations in several member states. They are linked together through The World Federation of United Nations Associations - WFUNA. The national UN associations as well as WFUNA hold consultative status at the ECOSOC.