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Dag Hammarskjöld Library
49. Notes 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 notes also the efforts of the Secretary-General 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;
50. Requests the Secretary-General to include in his comprehensive review
of the management and operations of the Department of Public Information the
results of the overall review of library services of the United Nations system,
including the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, the libraries in the United Nations Offices
at Geneva and Vienna, the libraries in the regional commissions, departmental
libraries, libraries at United Nations information centres and depository libraries
called for by the General Assembly in its resolution 56/253;
51. Notes 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;
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Traditional means of communication: radio, television and publications
52. Stresses that radio remains one of the most cost-effective and farreaching traditional media available to the Department of Public Information and an
important instrument in United Nations activities, such as development and
peacekeeping;
53. Recalls paragraph 47 of its resolution 56/64 B, in which it decided,
building upon the success of the pilot project on the development of an international
radio broadcasting capacity for the United Nations as well as the scope of its
programme distribution and established partnerships, to expand the international
radio broadcasting capacity of the United Nations in all six official languages;
54. Appreciates that the Department of Public Information, as stated in
paragraph 32 of the report of the Secretary-General on the reorientation of United
Nations activities in the field of public information and communications, 5 has
managed to establish partnerships with over 265 radio stations to carry its
broadcasts, with a potential to reach as many as 180 million listeners worldwide;
55. Looks forward to the report of the Secretary-General to be submitted to
the Committee on Information at its twenty-fifth session on the implementation of
the United Nations international radio broadcasting capacity, including information
that can be obtained from the local, national and regional radio partners about the
estimated number of listeners reached and the cost-effectiveness of radio as an
instrument in United Nations activities, so that the Committee may decide on the
future of this capacity;
56. Notes the efforts being made by the Department of Public Information to
disseminate programmes directly to broadcasting stations all over the world in the
six official languages as well as in other languages, and, in this regard, stresses the
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