Information on international organizations in the service of policymakers

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Information on international organizationsin
the service of policy-makers

• Jane Makke
• Head of the section of
• International Organizations,
• National Library of Estonia
• 19.09.2008

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• Total 60 000 bodies
• international organizations,
• dependent bodies,
• organizational substitutes (autonomous conference
  series and multilateral treaties and
  intergovernmental agreements),
• national bodies, and also
• dead, inactive and unconfirmed bodies.
• Yearbook of International Organizations
  2006/2007

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• Total 13 000 international organizations
• governmental,
• non-governmental,
• Total 950 intergovernmental organizations (IGO)
• Estonia
• membership in 2987 bodies (2005)
• 283 of them IGOs
• 1992 NGOs
• Yearbook of International Organizations
  2006/2007

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• National Library of Estonia (NLE)
• depository for 14 IGO-s
• additional 12 represented (NATO, WIPO etc.)

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Depository organizations in the NLE (14)

• UN (1992-)
• UNESCO (1986-)
• UNIDROIT (2002)
• IMF (2001-)
• ILO (1992-)
• ICAO (1993-)
• IMO (1993-)

• UNWTO (2007-)
• WHO (1993-)
• The World Bank (1992-)
• WTO (1993-)
• EBRD (2005-)
• OSCE (1996-)
• EU (1992-)

OECD (2009-) 15th??
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• Law reading-room
• EU Information Centre
• Depository since 1992
• Information center since 1998
• CoE Information Office
• since 1995
• part of the CoE structure since 2002

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Services

• ISE Index Scriptorum Estoniaearticles
  published in Estonian periodicalshttp//ise.nlib.
  ee
• BIE Bibliographia Iuridica Estonicahttp//bie.n
  lib.ee
• Abstract publications
• Summari Iuridica, (1999-) http//www.nlib.ee/22647
  
• Summaria Socialia, (1999-) http//www.nlib.ee/2264
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• Summaria Europensia, (2004-) http//www.nlib.ee/24
  384
• Foreign Databases
• EU Information Phone

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Foreign Databases

• UN Treaty Collection
• UN Official Documents Search
• SourceOECD
• World Bank E-Library
• European Sources Online
• EBSCO
• ProQuest
• Hein Online
• West Law etc.

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EU Infomation Phone

• Pilot project in 1999
• Launched in 2000
• Free of charge
• Database Q A (in estonian only)http//elik.nlib
  .ee/?id32
• Information days

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Enquiries to EU information phone, 1999-
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EU Information Days

• Specific subject
• Duration approx. 2 hours
• Respondents are specialists of the particular
  subject
• Subjects
• Accession to the EU
• EU social policy and its influence to Estonia
  after the accession
• The future of the EU and Estonian national
  currency
• Other subjects
• culture,
• Agriculture
• Taxes etc.

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Enquiries on EU and other IGO-s, 1999-
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Main interests

• General interest about IGO-s
• Background information on different subjects
• Law, different documents (resolutions, decisions,
  treaties, recommendations, directives,
  regulations etc.)
• Statistics
• Economics, politics, social policy, international
  realtions, etc.

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• Thank you for your attention!