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Review-2001/9
- Social Summit Digital Library - CD ROM - Courtesy
Dag Hammerkjold Library - United Nations
Type, size and coverage dates:
The Programme of Action adopted at the World Summit for Social
Development in Copenhagen and the national reports on its implementation
have been compiled on a CD-ROM entitled "Social Summit Digital Library".
Copies of this CD ROM were presented to the media on the occasion
of the UN Special Session for Social Development held in Geneva.
The disk contains the outcome of all the work pertaining to the
theme that has been carried out by the UN member states during the
past five years. Apart from containing the Programme of Action and
the national reports, it also provides new ideas as to how social
development can best be promoted in the future.
Subjects:
The CD-ROM contains the history of the Social Summit and its follow-up.
The disk also contains the outcome of all the work that has been
carried out around the theme by the UN member states during the
past five years. Apart from containing the Programme of Action and
the national reports, it also provides new ideas about how social
development can best be promoted in the future.
Sources of Information:
The material on the CD ROM has been collected by the UN Secretariat
and the International Labour Organisation, ILO. The Finnish Government
has been the main source of funding for the disk
Type of literature:
Full texts of all the documents of the Social Summit and follow-ups
are available on the CD ROM, including the Copenhagen Declaration,
agreements, statements, annual reviews on the themes, examples from
countries around the world, etc.
Target users and use:
The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the ILO Central
Library (BIBL) jointly produced the CD-ROM as a support for the
consultations of the Special Session in Geneva. The Social Summit
Digital Library on CD-ROM is intended as a reference tool containing
all major documents of the United Nations and the ILO which relate
to the goals of the Summit.
Availability
and Updates:
A limited supply of the CD-ROMs are available from the ILO Library,
e-mail: bibl@ilo.org (August 2000). A weblink is also available
at: http://www.un.org/socialsummit
Access:
The Social Summit Digital Library CD ROM has been placed on the
CD_NET Server for LAN-wide Access in the UN HOUSE. Please follow
the following steps to access this resources:
- In the Windows Explorer Program, Expand the Network Neighbourhood
- Find the folder: MD325131_NW, which is our CD Net Server
and expand it.
- You will see the folders for different CD's on the server. Find
the folder named: CD_24299 and double click on it.
- Find the file start.exe and double click on it.
- You can skip introduction if you want. Use the TAB in the lower
right hand corner to start the CD.
Please visit the UN Common Library for consulting The
Social Summit Digital Library CD ROM and online retrieval
of any Document / resolutions, contained in the repository through
our Free
Internet Access Terminals. Otherwise, please feel free
to use Ask UNCOL, our
phone / email-based remote reference service to make database searches
for you for the document/s you need and send the search results
or document/s to you by return email. The documents may be printed,
downloaded on Floppy discs or saved and delivered electronically
to an e-mail address as an attachment.
The Social Summit Digital Library has
been made available to the UN Common Library for free public use
by the courtesy of Dag Hammerskjold Library - New York
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