| About
Library
Objectives:
to develop, maintain and make available its collection
of shared knowledge on disaster risk reduction in order to stimulate
a culture of disaster prevention.
The collection:
The library comprises more than 10,000 items including
books, reports, articles, monographs, serials on the various aspects
of disaster risk reduction. Newsletters,
CDROMs, videos, and DVDs are also available.
Services:
- research,
analysis and reference services
- help users on how to use the ISDR online catalog, and provide the
requested documents to be consulted in the reading room
- search the Official Document System (ODS)
- photocopy service: the ISDR library is not a lending library. However,
material can be copied and/or put on CDROM
- prepare information kit on CDROMs
- help developing disaster reduction libraries worldwide
Functions:
- support
the information needs of the users
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serve as focal point library on disaster reduction the ISDR secretariat
staff, specialized agencies, IGOs, NGOs, government’s
representatives in Geneva and external researchers and experts.
- identify and collect information produced by UN partners, national
and international academic, technical and scientific institutions,
and other actors dealing with disaster reduction and related
issues worldwide.
- catalog items. The bibliographic records are immediately replicated
in the online catalog.
- respond to request for information on disaster risk reduction and/or
direct customers to the right source
- develop partnership with UN and other partners, as well as with
publishers
Products:
- develop virtual libraries with full text documents
- compile UN official documents on disaster reduction and related
issues available on hard copy, and CDROM.
-
publish “ISDR-Biblio”, a bibliography on a specific
subject
Online catalog:
Users can browse the online catalog which provides access to bibliographic
information of the collection. Documents selected can be
consulted in the reading room.
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