Copyright, Innovation and
UNESCO Library
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Where is UNESCO?
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Around the globe .....
50 Field Offices
 10 Regional Bureaux
 21 National Offices
 2 Liaison Offices
 11 UNESCO Institutes and Centres
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UNESCO’s origins
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Initial idea floated during an Allied Ministerial
Conference in London in 1942
UNESCO Constitution signed by 30 countries
represented at the London Conference in
November 1945
UNESCO set up in Paris in November 1946
Now has 193 Member States + 6 Associate
Members
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UNESCO’s Mission
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UNESCO’s fundamental mission:
– " …………. to contribute to peace and security by promoting
collaboration among the nations through education, science and
culture in order to further universal respect for justice, for the
rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms
which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without
distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of
the United Nations "
Article 1(1) of UNESCO’s Constitution
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6206&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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What UNESCO does …
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Recommends the adoption of international agreements promoting the free
flow of ideas
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Cooperates in efforts to advance mutual knowledge and the understanding of
peoples
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Supports efforts to maintain, increase, and disseminate knowledge
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Assists in the preservation of cultural patrimony and world heritage
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Functions as a laboratory of ideas and a standard-setter on issues in its fields
of competence
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Helps Member States build their human and institutional capacities
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Promotes international co-operation among Member States and Associate
Members
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UNESCO’s structure …
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=3973&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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General Conference
Executive Board
Director-General
Secretariat
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UNESCO Secretariat
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=3976&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTIOlN=201.htm
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Programme Sectors
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External Relations and Cooperation
Administration
Central Services
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Education
Natural Sciences
Social and Human Sciences
Culture
Communication and Information
Special Themes
Secretariat of the General Conference
Secretariat of the Executive Board
Office of the Director General
Bureau of Strategic Planning
Bureau of the Budget
etc. etc . ……
Field Offices and Institutes
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UNESCO’s main fields of action
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6406&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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Education,
Natural Sciences
Social and Human Sciences
Culture
Communication and Information
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Gender
Poverty Eradication
HIV/AIDS
Heritage
Climate Change, etc.
Cooperates with UN Institutions and a range of other organisations in
areas of common interest
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UNESCO and Copyright ..
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=12313&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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Universal Copyright Convention adopted under
UNESCO’s aegis in 1952
Awareness-raising and capacity-building projects
Information and training
Research in the field of copyright law
Works within the framework of the Global
Alliance for Cultural Diversity
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24468&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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Copyright Tools and Resources
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Basic Notions about Copyright and Related Rights
What is Copyright?
Copyright Bulletin
Collection of National Copyright Laws
Anti-Piracy
UNESCO Chairs
Guide to the Collective Administration of Author’s Rights
Conventions and Committees
 Universal Copyright Convention
 Intergovernmental Copyright Committee
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UNESCO and Libraries
This portal is on UNESCO’s Communications and Information Sector
website and contains links to interesting library-related resources:
UNESCO and Libraries: UNESCO-CI
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UNESCO Library
http://www.unesco.org/library/
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Works closely with UNESCO Archives and Clearing House
Small team – 10 full-time staff: each from a different country
Newly renovated Reading Room next to UNESCO main entrance
70000+ books
1700 periodicals
30+ online databases
Indexing of materials into UNESDOC (UNESCO online catalogue )
Some materials received – eg. Mission Reports prepared by external
experts – have to be embargoed for non UN readers for 20 years
Open to UNESCO and Accredited Delegations staff and to external
visitors
Increasing emphasis on electronic information resources and website
Financial situation makes development difficult to fund
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Keeping track of information and
events worldwide
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Monitoring the press and the media
Online resources
Information supplied by UNESCO Field Offices
and UNESCO Institutes worldwide
Information sent through HERMES system for
cataloguing into UNESDOC by the Library
Personal and professional contacts
Rather decentralised approach – several
UNESCO units are involved in searching for and
managing information
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Collection development on a
budget
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UNESCO a major publisher in its own right – UNESCO Library gets
(or should get !!) all UNESCO publications
Library also benefits from donations of materials – individual books
from interested academics through to occasional suites of furniture
from generous governments
Prioritises spending on online services and periodicals, and important
reference resources
Purchases materials where there is a clear relevance to UNESCO’s
programmes and fields of interest
UN Purchasing Consortium – UNSEIAC – for online subscriptions
(often with paper journals thrown in for free)
Money is tight – UNESCO targets spending on ‘frontline’
sectoral programmes rather than ‘support’ functions like the Library
Elaborate financial procedures and inflexible bureaucratic controls
have caused practical difficulties when managing Library budgets
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Ongoing projects and future
developments
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Participation in the World Digital Library project
Knowledge management initiatives
Thesaurus compatibility project, with EU and
other institutions
Arabic and Chinese versions of UNESCO
thesaurus
Climate change resource
Second Life
Anything else I’ve forgotten !!
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My contact details
John Miller
Chief Librarian
UNESCO
7, place de Fontenoy
75352 Paris 07 SP
France
tel. (33) 1 45 68 19 39
fax (33) 1 45 68 56 17
e-mail: j.miller@unesco.org
http://www.unesco.org/library
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