Dag Hammarskjöld Library
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The Dag Hammarskjöld Library is part of the United Nations headquarters and is connected to the Secretariat and conference buildings through ground level and underground corridors. It is named after Dag Hammarskjöld, a former Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The library serves the secretariat and the diplomatic missions with UN official documents, as well as free access to all the world's news media. It is not open to the general public. However, it does provide electronic access to most of the recent UN documents over the internet in PDF form through search engines, such as United Nations Info Quest and Official Document System. There is also an index page from which it is possible to browse to some of the documents.
The UN documents are cited by a terse hierarchical format[1] where, for example, A/57/PV.72 is the 11th plenary meeting of the 57th session of the General Assembly, and S/RES/1441 is United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441.
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You can search using these citations, or browse to them from the index page to get to them. However, a direct URL link to a particular document does not work, as the UN webserver uses temporary URLs and HTTP cookies to prevent any URLs you get from working from another computer. This prevents blogs, wikipedia, and other on-line articles from linking directly to them.[citation needed]
