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The United Nations Depository Libraries Program as a de facto 'Open Community' evolving into a knowledge network

Authors: Grbac, Deborah;

The United Nations Depository Libraries Program as a de facto 'Open Community' evolving into a knowledge network

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La transition vers le libre accès a modifié la façon avec laquelle les bibliothèques dépositaires des Nations Unies travaillent pour servir les communautés locales (chercheurs et citoyens) en leur facilitant l’accès aux documents et publications des Nations unies. Pour ce faire, elles sont soutenues par la Bibliothèque Dag Hammarskjöld auprès du siège des Nations unies à New York, laquelle, depuis 2015, est en train de transformer progressivement le fonctionnement du système des bibliothèques dépositaires, né en 1947, en un réseau de la connaissance. Dès la pandémie de Covid, il a été possible de voir les germes de cette évolution vers ce que l'on peut appeler une "communauté ouverte" de fait, rassemblée autour d'instruments en libre accès tels que la Bibliothèque numérique des Nations unies. L'éducation ouverte se traduit par une formation gratuite à l'utilisation des instruments numériques des Nations unies, tels que les bases de données électroniques et le catalogue de la bibliothèque, ainsi que par des webinaires et des conférences sur des sujets tels que la désinformation, l'infodémocratie, les bibliothèques vertes et la science ouverte. La Bibliothèque fournit aussi des conseils gratuits sur la manière de télécharger des données bibliographiques à partir de la Bibliothèque numérique et sur la manière d'utiliser les données pour découvrir des contenus dans le catalogue. Des documents gratuits comme des guides de recherche sur des sujets spécifiques, par exemple les Objectif de Développement Soutenables (SDG, Sustainable Development Goals) et du matériel promotionnel sur les journées de célébration des Nations Unies, sont aussi mis à disposition pour être réutilisés contre une simple citation. Les bibliothécaires des bibliothèques dépositaires, qui ont construit leurs propres connaissances en passant des années à maintenir en ordre et à cataloguer leur collection sur papier, sont maintenant appelés à améliorer leurs compétences pour donner aux utilisateurs de nouvelles façons d'accéder aux documents et aux publications. Tout en conservant la collection papier, car les projets de numérisation sont encore en cours. Après soixante-dix ans d'expérience accumulée, les bibliothécaires dépositaires ne sont pas seulement les propriétaires du patrimoine culturel, mais aussi les promoteurs de ce savoir par le travail de sensibilisation qu'ils effectuent au sein du système des bibliothèques dépositaires des Nations unies au nom des Nations unies, et par leur appartenance au grand système des Nations unies composé d'organismes, de fonds, de programmes, d'institutions et, parmi ceux, de bibliothèques aussi.

Transition to open access is changing how United Nations depository libraries are working to serve local communities (researchers and citizens) in accessing United Nations documents and publications. In doing so they are supported by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library at United Nations headquarters in New York, who, since 2015, is gradually changing the functioning of the system of depository libraries, born in 1947, into a knowledge network. Already during the Covid pandemic, it was possible to see the seeds of this evolution into what can be called a de facto ‘open community’, gathered around open access instruments like the United Nations Digital Library. Open education as free training on how to use United Nations digital instruments as electronic databases and Library catalogue, webinars and conferences on topics as misinformation, infodemics, green libraries, open science. Free consulting on how to download bibliographic data from the Digital Library and on how using data to discover contents into the Catalogue. Free materials as research guides on specific topics, for instance SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and promotional material on United Nations’ celebration days, put at disposal for reuse against simple quotation. Librarians at Depository libraries, who built their own knowledge in spending years in keeping in due order and cataloguing their collection on paper, are now called to improve their skills to give users new ways to access documents and publications. Always keeping the paper collection as the digitalization projects are still ongoing. After up to seventy-years of accumulated experience depository librarians are not only owners of cultural heritage, but promoters of this knowledge by the advocacy work they are doing inside the United Nations system of depository libraries on behalf of the United Nations, and by belonging to the greater United Nations system made of bodies, funds, programs, institutions and among them: libraries.

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Open education, Open Science, United Nations Depository Libraries Programme, [SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences, Open access

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