Book purchases (in volumes per 100 citizens)

Get her up here. Order some books.

Owing to book price increases the libraries are spending more money buying relatively fewer books.

I ordered some new books from America.

I've got the books she ordered.

During the biennium, over 200 subscriptions of the quarterly UNBIS Plus on CD ROM were sold worldwide to academic institutions, NGOs and government, business, public and national libraries.

The libraries have made groundbreaking progress in joint procurement of these costly resources by using the United Nations System Electronic Information Acquisition Consortium to negotiate subscriptions at a lower cost to the Organization.

In 2003, computer equipment was purchased for 657 public libraries.

These donations enabled the two libraries to establish a sizeable core of holdings and subscribe to a number of periodicals and journals.

Subscriptions and standing orders

Intensified cooperation with the World Criminal Justice Library Network was initiated by means of transferring data on recent library acquisitions of the European Institute to the database of the Network.

Writing includes a purchase order, invoice, general terms and conditions and the like.

Procurement second purchase order

Through purchases and gifts, libraries obtained 4,891,000 books and 179,000 units of audio visual equipment in 1993 and, respectively, 4,303,000 and 156,000 in 1994.

No covers found.

Ex post facto purchase order.

Organization chart of the Procurement Division

The acquisition of 20 map sets.

Because of internal budgetary restrictions and external price increases in the book trade, the Library s acquisitions programme was severely restrained, book and periodical purchases were curtailed and collections were limited to include only the most essential selections.

orders (in millions of

It has not been possible to order any insecticides.

Yes. The dry goods you ordered.

113. Short term projects are concerned with, in particular, the recruitment of additional staff, the acquisition of new electronic equipment, the enhancement of existing collections, subscription to additional periodicals, and the acquisition of supplementary CD ROMs.

The library issues a weekly bibliography containing a list of new acquisitions and a summary of the periodicals received recently.

Collection development policies were formulated to ensure coordination between materials in reference libraries and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.

All requisitions are pre encumbered and purchase orders obligated electronically to ensure that funding is available before commitments are made.

Purchase of keys and maps.

The rate of increase in the size of book collections has slowed down during the past few years owing to financial limitations the number of new issues bought by libraries has fallen.

(b) In addition to the commitment authority approved under paragraph 4 above, an amount of 250,000 dollars is appropriated for each year of the biennium 2000 2001 from the accumulated income of the Library Endowment Fund for the purchase of books, periodicals, maps and library equipment and for such other expenses of the Library at the Palais des Nations as are in accordance with the objects and provisions of the endowment.

(c) In addition to the appropriations approved under subparagraph (a) above, an amount of 125,000 dollars is appropriated for each year of the biennium 2002 2003 from the accumulated income of the Library Endowment Fund for the purchase of books, periodicals, maps and library equipment and for such other expenses of the Library at the Palais des Nations as are in accordance with the objects and provisions of the endowment.

(c) In addition to the appropriations approved under subparagraph (a) above, an amount of 75,000 dollars is appropriated for each year of the biennium 2006 2007 from the accumulated income of the Library Endowment Fund for the purchase of books, periodicals, maps and library equipment and for such other expenses of the Library at the Palais des Nations as are in accordance with the objects and provisions of the endowment

(c) In addition to the appropriations approved under subparagraph (a) above, an amount of 125,000 dollars is appropriated for each year of the biennium 2004 2005 from the accumulated income of the Library Endowment Fund for the purchase of books, periodicals, maps and library equipment and for such other expenses of the Library at the Palais des Nations as are in accordance with the objects and provisions of the endowment.

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Procurement and contracting

Annual procurement planning

Any attempts to purchase arms?

Any attempts to purchase arms?

They involve an obligation to maintain the network of public libraries (State and community owned) in order to ensure access to books for all social groups, as well as the obligation to enable libraries to buy new issues regularly.

(g) Library services provision of library services and information to staff, member States, United Nations libraries and depository libraries and other clients, including the acquisition of publications, databases indexing of ESCWA documents on the Official Documents System to make them available to Internet users and developing library Internet and Intranet web pages.

7. Requests the Secretary General to ensure that all departments and offices at Headquarters and in the field develop, in cooperation with the Procurement Division, annual procurement plans, which should be made publicly available

495. Public establishments receive large credits every year for the purchase of printed works or subscriptions to scientific reviews.

During the reporting period, approximately 150 books, CD ROMs, and over 400 journal issues were acquired.

3. In addition to the appropriations approved under paragraph 1 above, an amount of 75,000 dollars is appropriated for each year of the biennium 2008 2009 from the accumulated income of the Library Endowment Fund for the purchase of books, periodicals, maps and library equipment and for such other expenses of the library at the Palais des Nations in Geneva as are in accordance with the objects and provisions of the endowment.

(c) In addition to the appropriations approved under subparagraph (a) above, an amount of 125,000 dollars is appropriated for each year of the biennium 2004 2005 from the accumulated income of the Library Endowment Fund for the purchase of books, periodicals, maps and library equipment and for such other expenses of the Library at the Palais des Nations as are in accordance with the objects and provisions of the endowment.

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