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Legal Instruments - Migrating Databases
UNESCO Archives has begun migrating data on the legal instruments in its holdings from an older database to the ICA AtoM catalogue where it will be publicly available. This will be the fourth generation of database - not including the index cards and registers!
Another Hammarskjöld - Independent Commission files described
In 1988, Director-General Federico Mayor created an Independent Commission to advise the Director-General on ways and means of improving staff efficiency and management in the Unesco Secretariat. The Commission is informally known as the Hammarskjöld Commission after its Chair, Knut Hammarskjöld. The final report is available in UNESDOC. Description of the archival files has been entered in AtoM.Samples from the audio recordings are available in the Multimedia Archives.Dag Hammarskjöld: "A Man of the Next Generation"
On 15th December 2011, UNESCO celebrated the 50th anniversary of the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden), Secretary-General of the United Nations. On this occasion, The Courier and the UNESCO Archives pay tribute to this great visionary and intellectual in action.
Speech by Mr Gunnar Lund
Speech by Mr Alain Dejammet
Speech by Mr Hans Corell
Speech by Ms D. Houphouët-Boigny
Speech by Kaj Falkman
Interview with Mr Amadou Mahtar M'Bow
This interview with the former Director-General of UNESCO (1974-1987) was conducted by Ms Françoise Rivière, former Assistant Director-General for Culture, and Mr Doudou Diène, former Director of intercultural projects, during three morning sessions, on 21, 22 and 23 December 2009 in the framework of Oral Archives initiative. A personal account of UNESCO from 1950s to today
AtoM Progress Report – December 2011
We continue to make progress in our efforts to describe our holdings in the AtoM catalogue! You can now see a selection of scanned files (previously posted to the website) by browsing to our descriptions for Archive Group 1: Intellectual Institute for Intellectual Co-operation and Archive Group 8: Secretariat Records. Our current priorities are as follows: • Migration of an old database with information on UNESCO’s legal instruments. • Authority records for UNESCO’s former Division of Human Rights and Peace (biographical notices of Directors and administrative history). Do you have something you would like to see in AtoM ASAP? Let the Reference Archivist know! a.torrance@unesco.orgOne year later: are we tidy?
In January 2011, the UNESCO Archives started a project to tidy our depots. In order to do so, we were closed for two weeks in January and were only open on Fridays “by special arrangement.” Over the course of the year, there were many “special arrangements” and so we are not as tidy as we had hoped to be! Nevertheless, we will continue to tidy on Fridays. This means that we will not pull any new material for researchers on Fridays, but they are welcome to work independently in the reading room.
IIIC Description Project
In November and December 2011, UNESCO Archives has been lucky to have Project Archivist Marie Caillot on site to further develop the description of Archive Group 1: International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation. Marie has created biographical notes and histories of important administrative units. She has also entered description to the file-level in our ICA AtoM description catalogue. Now researchers everywhere can browse and search for interesting material in this precious fonds. Thanks Marie!
100th anniversary of Claude Lévi-Strauss
On the occasion of his hundredth birthday on 28 of November, UNESCO Director-General paid tribute to one of the leading thinkers of the 20th century and an exhibition of books, photographs, archives and journals was put on display at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on November 26, 27 and 28, as well as audio and video recordings of talks given by Claude Levi-Strauss at UNESCO
Race, histoire et culture -Le courrier de l'UNESCO, déc. 2001
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