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To know where to find itUNESCO Library resources at your

fingertips

Presentation by Petra van den BornReference and User Services

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LIBRARY THREE LEG

Collections development / Acquisitions

Cataloguing / Indexing

Reference / Information Service

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… it is all about research QUESTIONS• Je fais une thèse sur l'état civil de Côte d'Ivoire et de France. Pouvez-vous

m'orienter dans la recherche de ces documents l'Unesco relatifs à ce sujet? Etudiant/Université Paris XII

• Equity and education. How can education contribute to equity and how important is equity to education (quality education for all)? Theoretical approaches of equity (concepts). IBE/UNESCO

• United Arab Emirates - foreign labor force, the effect of foreign workers on UAE nationals, women's participation in the work force. Graduate student/U.S.A.

• "outstanding universal values" concept related to World Heritage Convention. ICOMOS/Peru

• Je recherche le Courrier de l'Unesco l'article de Claude Levi-Strauss intitulé «Qu'est-ce qu'un primitif». Chercheur/CNRS

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and the ROAD to answers

• Select the message of the question

• Select answer – providing tools

• Identify answer – providing titles

• Select answer(s)

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helpful online TOOLS

• Bibliographic databases refer to original titles

• Full-text databases access to title content

• Directory databases direct-to-use facts and figures

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More online TOOLS special for you

with

UN System Electronic Information Acquisition Consortium UNSEIAC

access to

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Select answer – providing tool• United Arab Emirates - foreign labor force, the

effect of foreign workers on UAE nationals, women's participation in the work force.

ProQUEST Contemporary Women’s Issues

• Equity and education. How can education contribute to equity and how important is equity to education (quality education for all)? Theoretical approaches of equity and case studies.

Oxford Reference Online World Bank e-library

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