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United Nations Research: U.N. Material at York

Print, microfiche & microprint

Virtually all UN material in the York collection is held at the Scott Library. The chart below is a summary of York’s holdings and the ways in which to locate material.

Type of Material Format Location Access
Documents
 
(1946-1981)
 Microprint
Storage  (Location: HNES)

 

  Not in the Library Catalogue. Use the United Nations Indexes (e.g. UN Document                 Index, AccessUN, or UNBISnet).

  • Filed alpha-numerically by document symbol.
Documents

(1982-)

 Microfiche
Microtext  (Location: SC-MICR)
  • In U.N. microfiche cabinet on the 1st floor of   Scott Library

 

  Not in the Library Catalogue. Use the United Nations Indexes.

  • Organized by Readex Year (found in AccessUN) then alpha-numerically by document symbol.
Publications     (1946-)
Print
Scott Library  (Location: SCOTT or SC-GOV-REF)
  • 2nd floor of Scott Library
   All publications are fully catalogued in the Library Catalogue. Search by title.

Some things to note:

  1. The pre-1982 microprint documents can be viewed and scanned for printing in the Microtext Department on the entry level of the Scott Library.
  2. Speeches are not really documents but are, rather, the contents of documents and should be found using a different set of tools.
  3. York collects all the UN documents and many, but not all, of the publications.

Adapted from work by Mike McCaffrey & Amanda Wakaruk