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The UNESCO archives are, for practical reasons, organized in 15 major series (or "fonds"), Archive Group (AG) 1-15.

Consult the detailed list of the 15 major series

The following finding aids are available online

General finding aids
A Chronology of UNESCO 1945-1987. Facts and events in Unesco's history with references to documentary sources in the Unesco Archives and supplementary information in the annexes 1-21, Paris 1987 (LAD.85/WS/4 Rev)
UNESCO 1945-1995: A Fact Sheet (ARC.95/WS/1)
C/5 of the relevant session(s) of the General Conference
Internet: http://www.unesco.org/

AG 1. International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation (IICI), 1925-1946
IICI. Inventory of archives 1925-1946 (UIS.90/WS/1), AG 1/1

AG 2. Conference of Allied Ministers of Education (CAME), 1942-1945
CAME. List of documents and correspondence files (PRS.80/WS/2), AG 2/1
CAME. List of documents, AG 2/2
CAME. Index of documents, AG 2/3

AG 3. Preparatory Commission of UNESCO (PREP. COM.) 1945-1946
 Prep.Com. Inventory of archives, AG 3/1

AG 4. General Conference Documents (C) 1945-
AG 5. Executive Board Documents (EX) 1946-
UNESCO Bibliographic Database (UNESDOC)

AG 6. Secretariat Documents (S) 1946-
List of UNESCO Secretariat main series documents, 1947-1971. In chronological order by department/sector.

AG 7. UNESCO Publications 1946-
Bibliography of publications issued by UNESCO or under its auspices the first   twenty-five years: 1946-1971, UNESCO, Paris, 1973, AG 7/1
Registers of UNESCO publications by ARC-code, 1946-

AG 8 Secretariat Records, 1946-
Index of inactive correspondence files, 1st series, 1946-1956, AG 8/2.2 REG

AG 14 Publications, documents and records on UNESCO
Bibliography of Publications on UNESCO (LAD-84/WS/3), 1984 (covers the period 1944-1983)
UNESCO Bibliographic Database (UNESDOC), 1972-

AG 16 Electronic and Machine-readable Records
Directory of UNESCO databases (DIT-96/WS/2), 1996





 
 
 
 
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