The
Library of Congress >> Researchers
GUIDE TO ACCESSING UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATIONS AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
COMPILED BY
SARA J. STRINER
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
SERIAL AND GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS DIVISION
REVISED
February 1995
CONTENTS
1. United Nations Structure
2. Intergovernmental Organizations Related to the U.N. by Agreement
3. Types of United Nations Publications in General
4. Treatment of U.N. Publications at the Library of Congress
5. Separately Cataloged U.N. Books and Serials
6. United Nations Documents
7. United Nations Official Records
8. United Nations Sales Publications
9. Locations of U.N. Publications at the Library of Congress
10. Indexes and Guides
11. United Nations Resolutions at the Library of Congress
12. United Nations Treaties
13. International Court of Justice
1. UNITED NATIONS STRUCTURE
Major Organs of the United Nations:
General Assembly
Membership: All who belong to the U.N.
Sessions: Regular (one per year, beginning third Tuesday in September);
Special; Emergency Special
Security Council
Membership: 15
5 permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, U.K., U.S.
10 members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly.
Sessions: Called as needed; functions continuously.
Economic and Social Council
Membership: 54
Members serve three-year terms of office.
18 new members are elected each year by the General Assembly.
Sessions: Two per year (one in New York and one in Geneva),
plus an organizational meeting. Special sessions may be called.
Five regional economic commissions are subsidiary to the Economic and
Social Council: Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Economic Commission
for Europe (ECE), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC), and Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).
Trusteeship Council
Membership: Number not fixed. Charter provides for equal number of
members from countries administering and not administering trust
territories. Currently there are just five members: the five permanent
members of the Security Council.
Sessions: Annual; Special
Secretariat
Services the other organs of the U.N.
Headed by the Secretary General.
Staffed by an international civil service.
International Court of Justice
Headquarters: The Hague
Judges: 15, elected for nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the
Security Council voting independently. Judges may be re-elected.
No two members may be nationals of the same state.
2. INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS RELATED TO THE UNITED NATIONS BY AGREEMENT
The following organizations are autonomous, related to the U.N. by
special agreements. It is necessary to consult their own indexes and
catalogs for their documents and/or publications. (Up to l962, the
United Nations Documents Index indexed some of the publications of these
bodies. However, these publications are not part of the United Nations
document collection.)
A. Specialized Agencies (16):
Report annually to the Economic and Social Council, through which their
work with the U.N. and each other is coordinated.
Name Acronym Headquarters
International Labor Organization ILO Geneva
Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations FAO Rome
United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural
Organization UNESCO Paris
World Health Organization WHO Geneva
World Bank
International Bank for
Reconstruction and World Bank Washington, D.C.
Development IBRD Washington, D.C.
International Development
Association IDA Washington, D.C.
International Finance
Corporation IFC Washington, D.C.
International Civil Aviation
Organization ICAO Montreal
International Monetary Fund IMF Washington, D.C.
Universal Postal Union UPU Berne
World Meteorological Organization WMO Geneva
International Telecommunication
Union ITU Geneva
International Maritime
Organization IMO London
World Intellectual Property
Organization WIPO Geneva
International Fund for
Agricultural Development IFAD Rome
United Nations Industrial
Development Organization UNIDO Vienna
B. Other Independent Agencies
Name Acronym Headquarters
International Atomic Energy Agency
(Reports annually to General IAEA Vienna
Assembly, and as appropriate to
Security Council and Economic
and Social Council)
General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade (1947-1994) GATT Geneva
(GATT administrative bodies
replaced by World Trade Oz.,
beginning 1995)
3. TYPES OF UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATIONS IN GENERAL
1. Documents - Are produced by all of the organizational units of the
U.N. in carrying out their work. They bear document symbols.
2. Official Records - Are produced by the major U.N. bodies that hold
meetings. They comprise the "official record" of the work
conducted during a year or session, and include major documents
from the session. They have Official Record designators.
3. Sales publications - Are publications sold by the United Nations
sales offices. They bear sales numbers.
4. TREATMENT OF UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATIONS AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
1. Part of the document series.
2. Part of an Official Record series.
3. Separately cataloged books and serials.
5. SEPARATELY CATALOGED U.N. BOOKS AND SERIALS
Any substantial U.N. book or serial may be separately cataloged, whether it has
a document symbol or not. Cataloged books and serials may be found like any
other monograph or serial, using the Library's online LOCIS system (LCCC, SERL,
MUMS, PREM). For pre-1981 materials, the printed card catalogs may also be
consulted. These U.N. books and serials should be requested in one of the
Library's general or special reading rooms, depending on call number and
format.
Subseries: Some serials and books have their own cataloging records, but the
call number places them in the document set. An entry for a publication of
this nature gives as the call number JX1977.A2 (subseries). JX1977.A2 is the
call number for the paper document set, kept until the early 1970's. The
"subseries" is the document number, and we need this to retrieve it. The
document number may be in the online record, or it may be found in one of
the U.N. document indexes. All such works should be requested in the Newspaper
and Current Periodical Room, which has custody of the U.N. document set.
6. UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS
A. Definition: Documents are the material produced by the United Nations in
carrying out its work. A great number of the documents produced in the course
of meetings are meant to be temporary in nature and go out of print quickly.
Other publications issued with document numbers, such as indexes,
bibliographies, and statistical publications, are finished products of a
permanent nature.
Document number: Each document has a document symbol in the upper right hand
corner of the title page or on the verso of the title page. If issued jointly
by two bodies, the document may have two numbers, one in the sequence of
documents issued by each body. If reprinted as an Official Record, the
document keeps the document number.
Shelving and retrieval: The Library keeps older documents on microfiche.
Documents from the past six months to one year are in paper. Documents,
whether in paper or microform, are arranged in document number order. We need
a document number to retrieve them.
Construction of document symbols: Document numbers are formed of capital
letters and numbers separated by forward slashes. (In a few cases, they may
include Roman numerals, which usually represent the number of a session or the
number of a subsidiary organ like a working group). The first letter of the
document number identifies the major organizational unit which produced it.
Examples: A/34/100 E/1980/2 S/12400
B. Following are the major parts of the document symbols:
Leading elements:
Basic elements of the five principal U.N. bodies:
A/- General Assembly
E/- Economic and Social Council
S/- Security Council
T/- Trusteeship Council
ST/- Secretariat
Some bodies have special leading elements. For example:
ACC Administrative Committee on Coordination
CCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
CERD International Convention on the Elimination of all
Forms of Racial Discrimination
DP United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
TD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD)
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
Elements denoting subsidiary organs:
Symbols of documents from committees, commissions, and other subsidiary
bodies of the five major organs usually have an element identifying the
subsidiary body after the symbol of the parent body, as follows:
--/AC.#/ Ad hoc committee
--/C.#/ Standing, permanent, or sessional committee
--/CN.#/ Commission
--/CONF.#/ Conference
--/GC/ Governing Council
--/PC/ Preparatory Committee
--/SC.#/ Subcommittee
--/SUB.# Subcommission
--/WG.#/ Working Group
--/WP.#/ Working Party
The subsidiary bodies are usually numbered in the order in which they
were established. (e.g. A/C.l/-- (first committee of the General
Assembly); A/CN.11/-- (eleventh Commission formed by the General
Assembly); E/CONF.72/-- (seventy-second conference sponsored by the
Economic and Social Council).
Some subsidiary bodies may be identified by an acronym after the letter
of the parent body. Examples:
E/ECE/-- Economic and Social Council. Economic Commission for
Europe
E/INCB/-- Economic and Social Council. International Narcotics
Control Board.
Elements showing nature of document:
The type of document may be indicated by a symbol before the sequential
document number.
--/DEC/ Decision
--/CRP. Conference room paper
--/INF/ Information series
--/MIN. Minutes
--/NGO/ Communication from non-governmental organizations
--/PET/ Petitions (Trusteeship Council)
--/PV. Verbatim record of meeting (proces-verbaux)
--/RES/ Text of adopted resolutions
--/RT/ Record of testimony
--/SR. Summary record of meeting
--/WP. Working paper
Symbol elements identifying modification of text:
Other symbols show that the original document has been changed.
--/Add. Addendum
--/Amend. Amendment
--/Corr. Corrigendum
--/Excerpt Reissue of an excerpt of a document
--/Rev. Revision
--/Summary Summary
Symbol elements identifying distribution category:
These letters, immediately before the last numeral, indicate how
widely the documents were distributed.
--/L. Limited These are primarily for distribution at
headquarters or at meetings and are not
felt to be of general or permanent
interest. For example, they include draft
texts. They are not generally distributed to
depository libraries in paper, although the
Library of Congress gets a few. However,
many are included in the microfiche set of
documents.
--/R. Restricted These are confidential when issued
and are not distributed.
Symbol elements denoting session or year:
General Assembly:
Since 1976 (31st session), the second major element of a General
Assembly document number has indicated the session. Individual
documents are then numbered chronologically within the session.
Prior to 1976, documents were numbered continuously from the first
session.
Examples: A/session/sequential number
A/31/50 A/34/100 A/35/PV.38
A/subbody/session/sequential number
A/C.3/35/L.17
A/resolution/session/sequential number
A/RES/35/6
Since 1978 (8th special session), a General Assembly special
session document number has included an "S" and the number of the
special session. Since 1980, emergency special session document
numbers include "ES" and emergency special session number.
Examples: A/S-8/5 A/S-10/2 A/ES-6/1
Economic and Social Council:
Since 1978, the second major element of an Economic and Social
Council document number indicates the year of a meeting, followed
by a sequential number for the year.
Examples: E/year/sequential number
E/1980/1
E/1981/C.1/SR.1
E/1983/C.2/L.1
Security Council:
Since 1994, the second major element of a Security Council document
indicates the year.
Example: S/1994/308
Sequential number:
The last part of a document symbol is a sequential number uniquely
identifying a particular document.
C. Examples of document symbols:
A/34/355 General Assembly, 34th session, 355th general
document issued in the session
A/C.3/35/L.14 General Assembly, Committee 3, 35th session,
14th limited document issued in the session
A/RES/34/102 General Assembly, 34th session, 102nd resolution
E/1980/SR.34 Economic and Social Council, a 1980 session,
summary record of the 34th meeting
E/ICEF/669 Economic and Social Council, United Nations
Children's Fund (ICEF), 669th document
S/13862 Security Council. 13,862th plenary document
issued. Until 1994, Security Council documents
were numbered continuously from the first year.
S/1994/300 Security Council, 1994, 300th document
S/PV.2224 Security Council, Verbatim record (proces
verbaux) of the 2224th plenary meeting
T/PET.10/151 Trusteeship Council.Petition concerning Pacific
Islands, U.S. administration (PET.10), No. 151
D. Reference Lists of Document Symbols:
See section of this guide called "Indexes and Guides" for full
bibliographic descriptions and call numbers.
United Nations Document Series Symbols, 1946-1977.
United Nations Document Series Symbols, 1978-1984.
(Lists of U.N. document symbols and what they stand for. A subject
index indicates which U.N. bodies deal with given subject areas.)
UNDOC: Current Index: United Nations Document Index. "New Document
Series Symbols" section. (New symbols and what they stand for.)
E. Sources of citations to particular documents:
Index to United Nations Documents and Publications (on CD-ROM).
U.N. document indexes for the various years: UNDOC, UNDEX, UNDI.
Indexes to Proceedings for some U.N. bodies.
United Nations Yearbook.
U.N. Chronicle.
Bibliographic records in card catalog or on-line.
7. UNITED NATIONS OFFICIAL RECORDS:
The four major organs of the United Nations which hold meetings (General
Assembly, Economic and Social Council, Security Council, and Trusteeship
Council) issue official records. The official records are the permanent, final
record of the session or year of meetings. They may be thought of as similar
in function to the U.S. House and Senate Journals and Serial Set. In addition
to the four major organs mentioned above, certain other U.N. bodies produce
official records of their meetings. The Trade and Development Board of the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development issues official records, and
the Yearbook of the International Law Commission constitutes its official
record. Various conferences, such as those on the Law of the Sea, also issue
official records.
A. Official records of most bodies consist of:
1. Meeting records
a. Verbatim records of the meetings (PV=proces verbaux) or
b. Summary records of the meetings (SR)
2. Major documents. Documents that were particularly important
to the various meetings. The documents were originally
issued in the document series.
3. Supplements. Supplements contain the principal reports
prepared for the session. They are primarily annual reports
submitted by the various subsidiary bodies that report to the
parent body in question. Supplements may also contain
budgets or financial reports. One supplement contains a
compilation of all of the resolutions and decisions adopted
during the session or year.
B. Library of Congress entries for the Official Records of the four major United
Nations bodies, call numbers, and a listing of contents follow:
1. United Nations. General Assembly. Official Records.
JX1977.A41
Contents:
Verbatim records of plenary meetings
Verbatim records of meetings of First Committee
Summary records of meetings of other main committees
Annexes (major documents)
Supplements (Resolutions issued as last supplement)
(Note: Document numbers 1-50 are also supplements 1-50.
For example, A/36/2 is also U.N. General Assembly
Official Record Supplement no. 2, 36th session.)
List of delegations
Checklist of documents
2. United Nations. Economic and Social Council. Official Records.
HC59.A193
Contents:
Through 1973:
Summary records of meetings
Annexes
Supplements
From 1974:
Sessional checklist with lists of delegates
Sessional volumes with plenary meeting records, agenda,
and checklist of documents
Supplements (Resolutions and decisions issued as
Supplement 1)
3. United Nations. Security Council. Official Records.
JX1977.A515
Contents:
Verbatim records of meetings
Supplements (containing selected documents, reports,
communications), currently issued quarterly.
Special Supplements (individual reports)
Resolutions and Decisions
4. United Nations. Trusteeship Council. Official Records.
JX4O21.U385
Contents:
Verbatim records of meetings
Sessional fascicles containing selected documents
Supplements (Resolutions and Decisions in Supplement 1)
Special Supplements
Other Library of Congress entries:
1. United Nations. Conference on Trade and Develpment. Trade and
Development Board. Official Records.
JX1977.A2 subseries.
Contents:
Summary records of meetings
Annexes
Supplements (Resolutions and decisions in Supplement 1)
2. United Nations. International Law Commission. Yearbook.
JX1261.U386
Contents:
Vol. 1: Summary records of meetings
Vol. 2: Documents pertaining to the meetings
C. Reference lists of official records:
See section of this guide called "Indexes and Guides" for full bibliographic
descriptions and call numbers.
United Nations. Office of Conference Services. United Nations Official
Records 1946-1962.
United Nations. Official Records, 1962-1981.
United Nations. Official Records, 1981-1984.
E. Sources of individual Official Record citations:
Index to United Nations Documents and Publications (on CD-ROM)
U.N. document indexes for the various years: UNDOC, UNDEX, UNDI.
Indexes to Proceedings for some U.N. bodies.
United Nations Yearbook.
8. UNITED NATIONS SALES PUBLICATIONS
A. Definitions: Most publications which are sold by the United Nations have a
sales number, usually printed on the back of the title page. The sales number
is used in ordering publications from one of the U.N. sales offices. A
publication may have both a sales number and a document number, since they are
used for different purposes.
At the Library of Congress, we do not use sales numbers for shelving and
retrieval. However, sales numbers are sometimes included in bibliographic
citations. If only a sales number is available, a U.N. index should be
consulted to find the document number. Some sales publications are not issued
as documents and will therefore not be included in the U.N. document set. In
this case, the Library of Congress online catalogs should be consulted to
determine whether the Library owns the work and, if so, to find a Library of
Congress call number.
B. Structure: Sales numbers are composed of capital letters and Roman and Arabic
numbers separated by periods. They indicate language and year of issue,
subject category, and unique publication number.
Examples:
E.83.IX.5 Publication in English, published in 1983, subject
category IX (Disarmament and Atomic Energy), number 5.
E.81.I.11 Publication in English, published in 1981, subject
category I (General Information and Reference), number 11.
C. United Nations Sales Subject Categories:
0 ACCIS, UNIDIR and Miscellaneous Publications
I General Information and Reference
II.A Business, Economics, Science and Technology
II.B Economic Development
II.C World Economy
II.D Trade, Finance and Commerce
II.E European Economy
II.F Asian Economy
II.G Latin American Economy
II.H Public Administration
II.K African Economy
II.L Western Asian Economy
III.A United Nations University (UNU) Publications
III.B UNDP Publications
III.C INSTRAW Publications
III.D UNEP Publications
III.E UNIDO Publications
III.H UNFPA Publications
III.K UNITAR Publications
III.N UNSDRI Publications
IV Social Questions
V International Law
VIII Transport and Communications
IX Disarmament and Atomic Energy
X International Administration
XI Narcotic Drugs
XIII Demography
XIV Human Rights
XVI Public Finance and Fiscal Questions
XVII International Statistics
XX UNICEF Publications
XXV United Nations Postal Administration
D. Reference Lists of Sales Publications:
See section of this guide called "Indexes and Guides" for full bibliographic
descriptions and call numbers.
Birchfield, Mary Eva. The Complete Guide to the United Nations Sales
Publications, 1946-1976.
United Nations. Office of Conference Services. United Nations Publications,
1945-1966.
United Nations. Dag Hammarskjold Library. United Nations Sales Publications,
1972-1977.
United Nations Publications Catalogue. (annual)
UNDOC: Current Index. United Nations Document Index. Sales publication
section.
E. Purchase:
Orders for sales publications may be sent to:
United Nations Publications
2 United Nations Plaza
Room DC2-853, Dept. 007C
New York, New York 10017
Tel: (212) 963-8302/(800) 253-9646
Fax: (212) 963-3489, OR
Publications des Nations Unies
Palais des Nations
CH1211, Geneva 10, Switzerland
Fax: 41 (22) 917-0027
9. LOCATIONS OF UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATIONS AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
A. Documents in the document set:
All United Nations documents (in the numbered document series), 1945/46
to date, are kept in closed stacks and must be requested in the Newspaper
and Current Periodical Room (N&CPR). The documents are kept in paper
until replaced by microfiche.
B. Official Records:
Unbound Official Records must be requested from the closed stacks in the
Newspaper and Current Periodical Room. When bound, Official Records of the
General Assembly, Economic and Social Counicl, and Security Council should be
requested in the Adams Building, fifth floor, center room. Official Records of
the Trusteeship Council must be requested in the Law Library. A complete set of
microfiche is kept in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room closed stacks.
C. Separately Cataloged Publications:
These are in the general collection or special collections as dictated by call
number and format.
D. JX1977.A2
Anything with this call number, the call number for the old bound document set,
should be requested in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room. This set
includes most, but not all, documents up to about 1970. Currently U.N.
documents are not bound, but are kept permanently in microfiche.
10. INDEXES AND GUIDES
The following indexes and guides are useful in conducting research with
United Nations documents and publications. Most are available in the reference
collection in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room (N&CPR).
A. Background:
The following works provide a basic description of the structure and an
overview of the work of the United Nations.
United Nations. Office of Public Information. Basic Facts About
the United Nations. New York: United Nations, latest edition.
JX1977.A37B3
Everyman's United Nations, 8th edition. New York: United Nations.
Office of Public Information, 1968.
JX1977.A37E9 (history 1945 - 1965)
Everyone's United Nations. New York: United Nations. latest
edition. JX1977.A37E9 (history 1966-)
United Nations. Office of Public Information. Guide to the
Charter of the United Nations. New York: United Nations.
JXI977.A37G8 (purpose, functions, organization)
B. Activities of the U.N.:
United Nations. Yearbook. New York: Columbia University Press in
Cooperation with the U.N., 1946/47- JX1977.A37Y4
(A good place to start general research on a topic considered by
the U.N. Subject, name and, since 1975, resolution indexes.
Discussions include document numbers for further reference.)
U.N. Chronicle, vol. 1, May 1964- (frequency has varied; now
quarterly) JX1977.AIU564
Provides overview of current activities of U.N. Gives summary of
September opening session of General Assembly. (Approximately the
last two years may be requested in the N&CPR. Older paper issues are
bound and in the permanent collections. Full text of some dates is
also available on the IAC Magazine Collection and UMI General
Periodicals Ondisc in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room.)
C. Indexes to Documents:
1946-1949. United Nations. Dag Hammarskjold Library.
Check List of United Nations Documents.
Z6481.A3 or JX1977.A2 (subseries)
See attached list. Checklists with subject
indexes were issued for some of the individual
U.N. bodies for the time period 1946-1949.
1950-1973. United Nations. Dag Hammarskjold Library.
United Nations Document Index. New York: U.N.,
vol. 1-24, Jan. 1950-Dec. 1973. Z6482.U45
Also indexed some specialized agency publications
until 1962. The specialized agency publications
themselves are not included in the U.N. document
set.
1974-1978. UNDEX: United Nations Document Index. New York:
U.N.,1970-1978. (irregular until 1974)
Series A: Subject Index Z6481.U4
Series B: Country Index Z6481.U42
Series C: List of Documents Issued Z6481.U425A
1979- UNDOC: Current Index: United Nations Document
Index. New York: United Nations, Jan/Feb. 1979-
Z6481.UI9
Check Lists:
The United Nations Document Index begins with 1950. A series called Check
Lists of United Nations Documents was planned to cover the years 1946
to 1949. However, not all of the parts were published.
Following are the sections of the Check Lists of United Nations Documents which
were issued. The U.N. document series is ST/LIB/SER.F/-. (This list is from
United Nations. United Nations Documentation. A Brief Guide. New
York: U.N., 1981, pp. 37-38.)
Part I: Not issued
Part II: No. 1: Security Council, 1946-1949. 1953. (ST/LIB/SER.F/2)
Part III: Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952. 1953. (ST/LIB/SER.F/3)
Part IV No. 1: Trusteeship Council, 1947-1948, 1st and 2nd sessions.
(ST/LIB/SER.F/4:1).
No. 2: Trusteeship Council, 1949, 3rd session.
ST/LIB/SER.F/4:2)
No. 3: Trusteeship Council, 1949, 4th and 5th, and 1st and 2nd
special sessions. (ST/LIB/SER.F/4:3)
Part V No. 1: Economic and Social Council, 1946-1947, 1st to
5th sessions. (ST/LIB/SER.F/5:1)
No. 2: Economic and Social Council, 1948, 6th and 7th
sessions. (ST/LIB/SER.F/5:2)
No. 3: Economic and Social Council, 1949, 8th and 9th
sessions. (ST/LIB/SER.F/5:3)
Part VI:A No. 1: Economic and Employment Commission, 1947-1949, 1st to
4th sessions. (ST/LIB/SER.F/6A:1)
VI:B No. 1: Transport and Communications Commission, 1946-1949, 1st
to 3rd sessions. (ST/LIB/SER.F/6B:1)
VI:C No. 1: Statistical Commission, 1947-1949, 1st to 4th sessions,
including Statistical Commission (Nuclear), 1946;
Sub-Commission on Statistical Sampling, 1st to 3rd
sessions; UN World Statistical Congress, 1947; Regional
meeting of European Statisticians. 1949. (ST/LIB/SER.F/6C:1)
VI: D No.1: Commission on Human Rights, 1947-1949, 1st to 5th
sessions, including Commission on Human Rights
(Nuclear), 1946; Sub-Commission on Freedom of
Information and of the Press, 1st to 3rd sessions, Sub-
Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities, 1st and 2nd sessions. (ST/LIB/SER.F/6D:1)
VI:E No.1: Social Commission, 1946-1949, 1st to 5th sessions,
including Temporary Social Commission, 1946.
(ST/LIB/SER.F/6E:1)
VI:F No. 1: Commission on the Status of Women, 1947-1949,
1st to 3rd sessions, including Sub-Commission on
the Status of Women, 1946. (ST/LIB/Ser.F/6F:1)
VI:G Not issued
VI:H No. 1: Fiscal Commission, 1947-1948, 1st session.
(ST/LIB/SER.F/6H:1)
No. 2: Fiscal Commission, 1949, 2nd and interim
sessions. (ST/LIB/SER.F/6H:2)
VI: I No. 1: Population Commission, 1947-1949, 1st to 4th
sessions. (ST/LIB/SER.F/61:1)
Part VII: A Not issued
VII:B No. 1: Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, 1947-
1949, 1st to 5th sessions. ST/LIB/SER.F/7B:1)
VII: C No.1: Economic Commission for Latin America, 1948-
1949,1st to 2nd sessions. (ST/LIB/SER.F/7C:1)
Part VIII: No. 1:United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, and
United Nations Appeal for Children, 1946-1949.
(ST/LIB/SER.F/8:1)
Part IX: Not issued
D. Indexes to Proceedings:
Information about speeches, voting, what happened in the meetings.
United Nations. Index to Proceedings of the Economic and Social
Council. New York: United Nations, 1952-
Z7161.I5
United Nations. Index to Proceedings of the General Assembly.
New York: United Nations, 1950/51-
JX1977.A44
United Nations. Index to Proceedings of the Security Council.
New York: United Nations, 1964-
JX1977.A5
United Nations. Index to Proceedings of the Trusteeship Council.
New York: United Nations, 1952-
JX4021.U32
E. Indexes to Resolutions-Cumulative:
United Nations. General Assembly. Resolutions Adopted by the General
Assembly. Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications, 1946-
JX1977.A3155 D57
Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council. Dobbs Ferry, New
York: Oceana Publications, 1946-
JX1977.A515A
Index to Resolutions and Other Decisions of the United Nations
Conferences on Trade and Development and of the Trade and Development
Board, 1964-1972. New York: United Nations, 1973. (Doc. no.
ST/LIB/SER.H/2)
Document set
Index to Resolutions of the Economic and Social Council, 1946-1970. New
York: United Nations, 1981. (Doc. no. ST/LIB/SER.H/4)
HC59.I492 1981
Index to Resolutions of the General Assembly, 1946-1970. New York:
United Nations, 1972. (Doc.no. ST/LIB/SER.H/1)
JX1977.A4233a
Index to Resolutions of the Security Council, 1946-1991. New York:
United Nations, 1992 (Doc. no. ST/LIB/SER.H/5)
Document set
F. Document Symbol reference:
United Nations. Dag Hammarskjold Library. United Nations Document
Series Symbols, 1946-1977. New York: United Nations, 1978. JX1977.A2
ST/LIB/SER.B/5/Rev.3
United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold Library. United Nations Document Series
Symbols, 1978-1984. New York: United Nations, 1986 JX1977.A2
ST/LIB/SER.B/5/REV.4
G. Lists of Official Records:
United Nations. United Nations Official Records 1948-1962. New
York: United Nations, 1973. Z6485.U53
United Nations. Official Records, 1962-1981.
New York: United Nations, 1982. Z6485.U55 1982
United Nations. Official Records, 1981-1984.
New York: United Nations, 1984. N&CPR
Also UNDOC, "Official Records" section.
H. Sales Number Indexes:
United Nations Publications Catalogue. New York: United Nations, 1986-
(Annual) Z6485.C37
With various changes in title, this sales catalog has been in existence
since 1947.
Birchfield, Mary Eva. The Complete Guide to the United Nations Sales
Publication, 1946-1978. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Unifo Publishers, Ltd.
1982. Z6485.Z9B57 1982.
United Nations. Office of Conference Services. United Nations
Publications, 1945-1966. New York: United Nations, 1967. Z6485.U535
United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold Library. United Nations Sales
Publications, 1972-1977. New York: United Nations, 1978.
JXI977.A2 ST/LIB/SER.B/27
Also UNDOC, "Sales Publications" section.
I. General Guide to Documentation System:
United Nations. United Nations Documentation: A Brief Guide.
New York: United Nations, 1981. JX1977.8 D6U56 1981
and 1994 (ST/LIB/34/Rev.2)
J. Index to Readex Microcard Document Set:
Readex Microprint Corporation, New York. United Nations Documents:
Checklist of the Readex Microprint Edition. New York: Readex Microprint
Corporation, 1978, 1980. (Lists by number documents included in the
microcard document set housed in the Microform Reading Room.)
Z6482.R4a
11. UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTIONS AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
A. United Nations resolutions may be found in various ways at the Library:
1. They can be requested from the closed stack document set in the Newspaper
and Current Periodical Room by document number. (Examples: A/RES/48/2,
S/RES/909)
2. One volume of the supplement to the Official Records of the various
bodies is a compilation of all the resolutions and decisions of a session or
year. See discussion of Official Records. This volume may be requested from
the closed stacks in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room or from the
general collections, depending on year.
3. Commercial compilations of General Assembly and Security Council
Resolutions are on reference in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room.
United Nations. General Assembly. Resolutions Adopted by the General
Assembly. Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications, 1946-
JX1977.A3155 D57 (Includes voting records)
Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council. Dobbs Ferry, New
York: Oceana Publications, 1946-
JX1977.A515a (Includes voting records)
Wellens, Karel C., ed. Resolutions and Statements of the United Nations
Security Council (1946-1992): A Thematic Guide. Dordrecht: M. Nijhoff,
1993
JX1977.A59 1993
4. Decisions and Resolutions Adopted by the General Assembly, issued as a
Press Release by the United Nations Department of Public Information, Press
Section. These volumes are published sooner than the Official Record
cumulations. The issues, kept in the office of the Serial and Government
Publications Division, may be requested from staff in the Newspaper and Current
Periodical Room.
5. Full text of major resolutions are reprinted in the United Nations.
Yearbook, 1946-. A full set of the Yearbook is kept on reference in the
Newspaper and Current Periodical Room. From 1975, there is a separate
resolutions index.
6. Full text of resolutions for some years are on the Internet.
12. UNITED NATIONS TREATIES
Under Article 102 of the United Nations Charter, every treaty and other
international agreement entered into by any member state is to be registered or
filed with the U.N. Secretariat and published by the Secretariat after coming
into force.
Eventually the Secretariat publishes these treaties and agreements in:
United Nations. Treaty Series. Recueil des traites. (UNTS)
New York: United Nations, vol. 1-, 1946/47-
JX170.U35
Law Library stacks - paper
N&CPR stacks through early 1970's only - microfiche
Indexes to U.N. Treaty Series:
United Nations. Treaty Series. Cumulative Index. New York: United
Nations, 1956-
JX170.U35
Law Library reference
Vambery, Joseph T. Cumulative List and Index of Treaties and
International Agreements Filed or Recorded With The Secretariat of the
United Nations December 1969-1974. Dobbs Ferry, new York: Oceana
Publications, 1977.
JX171.V35
Law Library reference, N&CPR
Other United Nations Treaty References:
Multilateral Treaties Deposited With the Secretary General. New York:
United Nations, 1982-. (Doc. no. ST/LEG/SER.E/1-) Annual.
Cites publication of treaty in Treaty Series or other source of the text.
Useful in identifying more recent multilateral treaties than those found
in the Treaty Series. Indicates accessions.
JX171.U372a
N&CPR Law Library
United Nations. Secretariat. Statement of Treaties and International
Agreements Registered or Filed and Recorded With the Secretariat.
New York: United Nations. (Doc. no. ST/LEG/SER.D./-)
Monthly. Subject index cumulates monthly and annually in December.
Helpful in locating citations for recent treaties.
JX170.U38.
Law Library reference
Other United Nations Treaty Information:
United Nations. Yearbook.
U.N. Chronicle
13. INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has its own documentation
system. Most of the major publications of the Court are available in paper
copy in the general collection or in the Law Library. The online card catalogs
should be consulted for entries and call numbers where necessary. Some of the
materials, through the early 1970's, are also available in microfiche from the
closed stacks in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room.
Following are the Library of Congress entries for some of the major
International Court of Justice publications:
Hague. International Court of Justice. Acts and Documents Concerning
the Organization of the Court. (ICJ Acts and Documents).
JX1971.6.A24 (collected set)
One set analyzed in full.
Microfiche through the early 1970's available through the N&CPR.
Hague. International Court of Justice. Bibliography of the International
Court of Justice, 1947-1966. (ICJ Bibliography)
Z6464.Z9.H27
Microfiche-N&CPR until early 1970's
Bibliographie de la Cour Internationale de Justice/Bibliography of the
International Court of Justice, 1966- (ICJ Bibliography)
Z6464.Z9.B42
Microfiche-N&CPR until early 1970's
Hague. International Court of Jutice. Pleadings, Oral Arguments,
Documents. (ICJ Pleadings)
Each case separately cataloged
Microfiche-N&CPR until early 1970's
Hague. International Court of Jutice. Recueil des arrets, avis,
consultatifs et ordonnances. Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and
Orders (ICJ Reports)
JX1971.6.A244 until March 23, 1972
Cataloged separately thereafter
Law Library Reference until early 1970's
Microfiche-N&CPR until early 1970's
Hague. International Court of Justice. Yearbook. (ICJ Yearbook)
JX1971.6.A25
Microfiche-N&CPR until early l970's
Hague. International Court of Jutice. Report. (Its annual report to
U.N. General Assembly)
JX1977.A41 (U.N. General Assebly. Official Records. Supplement, usually
number 4) |
Top of Page
|
| The
Library of Congress >> Researchers July 19, 2010 |
Legal | External Link Disclaimer |
Contact
Us: Ask a Librarian |