The
UN-ESCWA library was established in 1974 under Economic and
Social Council Resolution
1818. It provides a specialized
collection in the fields of economics and social
development.
The library is open to the public on Monday through Friday
from 10:30 a.m. to 14:30 p.m.
The library's main function is to provide research,
bibliographical and reference services
to library users in
fields that relate to the work programmes of UN-ESCWA and the
secretariat's other activities.
The library collection consists of monographs, reference
volumes, periodicals and series, newspapers, CD-ROMs,
on-line databases. UN documents and resolutions and
documents of UN-ESCWA and other UN agencies can be accessed
from the UN Official documents database at
documents.un.org.
Our Catalogue
How to
retrieve UN-ESCWA documents in full text:
- Select English library database from the drop down list
below
- Click on "keyword" and type in for example: 'labor and
escwa'
- Click on any title on the shown list and look for the
symbol
- Copy the symbol and go to
documents.un.org to search
- Click on "simple search" and fill in the symbol field
- Click on "search" and select a title
In case the Library Catalogue is unresponsive, please
inform us.
You may write to
library-escwa@un.org
UN-ESCWA
Library catalogue database is available in Arabic and English.
All searches can be limited to date and format found in the search option.
Click
here for general instructions.
Periodicals
The
periodicals contained in the UN-ESCWA Library cover a
wide range of topics relating to:
architecture, development,
economics
& finance, energy, environment,
information, industry, natural
resources, news, politics, science, social
science, technology, transport, water, women.
The
UN-ESCWA library was established in 1974 under Economic and
Social Council
UN-ESCWA 2008.