UNITED NATIONS RECORDS NOW IN RLIN
October 14, 1991 -- More than 312,000 bibliographic records from the
United Nations' Dag Hammarskjold Library have been loaded into RLIN,
the information network of the Research Libraries Group (RLG). RLIN
provides the only widely available online access to this material; in
the past it was necessary to use printed indexes to locate UN
publications.
The bibliographic records, dating back to 1979, include citations to
documents and proceedings of the General Assembly, Security Council,
International Court of Justice, UN Secretariat, and other UN bodies,
and to the many other international documents and publications
received and held by the Dag Hammarskjold Library. These records
are an excellent resource for the study of international events.
Later this fall, the files of 1,000 serials and 500 map records will
also be loaded into RLIN.
"Law libraries will be attracted by the inclusion of legal materials
and treaties," commented David Rozkuszka, foreign and international
documents librarian at Stanford University's Jonsson Library of
Government Documents. "All libraries will find that current events
are especially well covered, giving an international perspective as
well as a view into each government's position on a single issue."
The records being loaded come from UNBIS (the United Nations
Bibliographic Information System) and represent two large UNBIS files
-- DOCFILE and CATFILE -- whose print equivalents are UNDOC: CURRENT
INDEX and the monthly CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION. The UN
will provide quarterly updates for loading into RLIN.
For more information about the UN records and the RLIN database,
please contact the RLIN Information Center, Research Libraries
Group, e-mail BL.RIC@RLG.BITNET or BL.RIC@RLG.STANFORD.EDU.
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