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Committee on Information at its twenty-fourth session in the report requested in
paragraph 38 above;
40. Stresses the importance of enhancing the public information capacity of
the Department of Public Information in the field of peacekeeping operations and its
role in the selection process of spokespersons for United Nations peacekeeping
operations or missions, and, in this regard, encourages the Department to second
spokespersons who have the necessary skills to fulfil the tasks of the operations or
missions, and to consider views expressed, especially by host countries, when
appropriate, in this regard;
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Dag Hammarskjöld Library
41. Takes note of the continuing efforts of the Secretary-General to make the
Dag Hammarskjöld Library a virtual library with world outreach, making United
Nations information and other acquired materials accessible electronically to a
growing number of readers and users, and, at the same time, requests the SecretaryGeneral to enrich on a multilingual basis the stock of books and journals in the
Library, including publications on peace and security and development-related
issues, to ensure that the Library continues to be a broadly accessible resource for
information about the United Nations and its activities;
42. Encourages the Dag Hammarskjöld Library to alert its clientele,
including Member States through their missions, for example, via electronic mail, of
any new publications and collections;
43. Welcomes the training courses conducted by the Dag Hammarskjöld
Library for the representatives of Member States and Secretariat staff on Cyberseek,
web search, the Intranet, United Nations documentation, UN-I-QUE and the Official
Document System of the United Nations, and, in that regard, encourages the Library
to further develop such courses;
44. Also welcomes the role of the Department of Public Information in
fostering increased collaboration among libraries of the United Nations system,
particularly in establishing one central system-wide online catalogue that will allow
for the searching of the bibliographic records of all print holdings of all United
Nations system libraries and the searching of all electronic holdings and electronic
databases maintained by all United Nations system libraries, and requests the
Secretary-General to report thereon to the Committee on Information at its twentyfourth session in the context of his report on the reorientation of United Nations
activities in the field of public information and communications;
45. Requests the Department of Public Information to ensure the continued
development of the integrated library system in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, and
requests the Secretary-General to report thereon to the Committee on Information at
its twenty-fourth session in the context of his report on the reorientation of United
Nations activities in the field of public information and communications;
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