Agency Liaison Reports

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Bernan

The following report is by Bruce Samuelson, Director of Marketing and Library Services, on the latest developments at Bernan that may be of interest to IDTF members. As always, Bernan welcomes feedback and suggestions, and appreciates the opportunity to communicate directly with the IDTF. Bruce's email address is: bsamuelson@bernan.com. Bernan is at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. and Bruce invites everyone who will be there to stop by their exhibit in booth #2503. Bernan also encourages Bernan encourages all IDTF members to subscribe to their Government Publication News, their free monthly email newsletter on new and forthcoming intergovernmental organization

publications. Sign up online at www.bernan.com or email at gpn@bernan.com.

Bernan continues to serve as a sales agent for various online subscriptions from the UN, OECD, World Bank, World Tourism Organization, and the Pan American Health Organization. They will be hosting a demonstration and training day at the UN in New York City in early Fall, Contact them to reserve a space. Would a training day for other organizations they deal with also be worthwhile? If so, contact them to express interest.

Bernan Press continues to co-publish with the World Trade Organization, and next month is scheduled to release Volumes 2 and 3 of the WTO Basic Instruments and Selected Documents.. Co-publication continues for the WTO Trade Policy Review Series and the WTO Dispute Settlement Decisions:

Key current publications of special note are The Doha Round and the WTO: A New Agenda for Development from the World BankMillenium Development Goals: Report 2005 from the UNand the new International Patent Classification from the World Intellectual Property Organization, which will be five volumes instead of ten this edition. Bernan is now a distributor for the Council of Europe.

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Report submitted by Brett Cloyd, IDTF Agency Liaison

June 20 2005

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Canadian Official Publications

Released in June of 2004, Directions for Libraries and Archives Canada outlines broad directions for the newly created Library and Archives Canada (LAC) agency. It is available at: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/consultation/012012-200-e.html

A companion document is Consultation with Stakeholders on Directions for Library and Archives Canada: Overview Report of Findings that briefly describes the multi-type survey process preceding the agency reorganization and summarizes the results. Included are a summary of the responses, selected quotations, a list of those who responded from the 150 specifically invited groups, and the dates and locations of the consultation sessions. See: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/consultation/012012-300-e.html.

The LAC now combines the former National Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada. It assigns ISBNs and ISSNs as well as provides cataloging for all documents. The agency is also making progress with the harvesting and of web documents. Approximately 10,000 documents are available through their Federal Locator System at: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/7/5/index-e.html. The agency has also launched an electronic newsletter to be published every two months at: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/e-newsletter/index-e.html.

The Library Advisory Committee of the Canadian Depository Services Program (DSP) is meeting the end of August 2005. Contracts with Natural Resources (NRCAN) for maps, Statistics Canada, and the Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) materials end this year and will most likely be renewed. Thanks to Vivienne Monty of York University who is a member of the Library Advisory Committee and has provided much of this information

Report submitted by Linda Johnson, IDTF Agency Liaison

June 15, 2005

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Council of Europe

The following report was provided by Tom Johnson, Manhattan Publishing Company, on the latest developments from the Council of Europe that may be of interest to IDTF members. Contact information is: Tom Johnson, Manhattan Publishing Co, P.O. Box 468, Croton-on-Hudson NY 10520. Phone 888-686-7066, fax 914-271-5856, email: coe@manahttanpublishing.com, and web http://www.manhattanpublishing.com

Law:

Terrorism: special investigation techniques.(2005) A survey of national practice in thirty-five Council of Europe member states as well as in Canada and the United States of America. It also includes an analytical report, which examines special investigation techniques in relation to law enforcement and prosecution, the control of their implementation, human rights and international co-operation in this field.

Crime Policy in Europe (2005) ISBN 92-871-5486-4& 16x24cm 200 pages

Dealing with criminal policy in the Member States of the Council of Europe, this book concentrates on examples of promising practices in specific countries that could be encouraging to other countries.

Organised Crime in Europe: the threat of cybercrime - Situation report 2004(2005)

ISBN 92-871-5682-4 Format 16x24cm 268 pages An overview of the organised crime situation in Europe in 2004. A topical chapter is dedicated to the challenge of cybercrime with a detailed analysis of different forms of cybercrime, its links to organised crime and terrorism, and its impact on societies.

Human Rights

Mechanisms for the implementation of minority rights (2005)

ISBN&92-871-5499-6& 300p. A comprehensive and critical overview of the political and legal mechanisms that are available at both European and international levels ...the UN... International Court of Justice; ... the Council of Europe; � the OSCE �

Short guide to the European Convention on Human Rights (2005) 3^rd edition

ISBN 92-871-5670-0& 200 p. A concise overview of the basic rights guaranteed by the Convention on Human Rights .. . case-law � the procedures followed by the European Court of Human Rights , the role of the Committee of Ministers as a supervisory organ in giving force to the judgments of the Court.

Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion (2005) [Human Rights files, No. 20] ISBN 92-871-5626-3 111 p.C overs internal aspects of beliefs (as absolute) and external manifestations ( as relative).

European Court of Human Rights: Reports of Judgments and Decisions Latest volumes2003/I through 2003/XII.

Social Security

MISSCEO - Comparative tables of social protection systems in 13 member states of the Council of Europe, Australia, Canada and New-Zealand - 12th edition(situation on 1 January 2004) (2005) ISBN 92-871-5590-9 Pages 689 p.

Population:

Recent Demographic Developments in Europe 2004 (2005) ISBN 92-871-5665-4& Format A-4 with CDRom Pages 100& An annual lpublication presenting � developments in forty-six European states: the size of the population and its rate of increase, rates of migration, marriage and divorce, fertility and mortality, and the size of foreign population.�prepared �& in co-operation with national statistics offices.

Health

Blood transfusion Guide to preparation, use and quality assurance of blood components –11^th edition(2005) ISBN&92-871-5667-0 50 p.

This guide continues to be the "golden standard" for blood transfusion services and forms the basis for many national guidelines in Europe and outside.

Activities of the Council of Europe - 2004 report (2005) ISBN 92-871-5696-4& 119 p. This report describes all the work carried out in 2004 by the Council of Europe's

Report submitted by
Chelsea Dinsmore, , IDTF Agency Liaison

June 20, 2005 < chedins@uflib.ufl.edu>

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Food and Agriculture Organization - FAO

What’s New is an innovative information service that displays FAO’s most recently-published online information on a single, unique Web page. What’s New allows Internet audiences to be informed in real-time of the Organization’s newest Web sites, publications, press releases and other valuable material avoiding the need to constantly revisit individual databases and systems. Updates are available via RSS feeds as well. FAO currently hosts hundreds of specialized Web sites and systems which support the Organization’s mandate to raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity, better the lives of rural populations and contribute to the growth of the world economy.

http://www.fao.org/waicent/whats_new/index_en.htm

The World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) contributes to FAO’s mandate to collect, analyze, interpret and disseminate information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture. FAO established WAICENT as a corporate framework for agricultural information management and dissemination. WAICENT Partnersinclude:

• Agriculture Network Information Center (AGNIC)
• AGROWEB Initiative
• Bellanet
• CAB International
• Center for Transportation Analysis (CTA)
• Central Laboratory For Agricultural Expert Systems (CLAES)
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
• China Agricultural University
• China - Ministry of Agriculture (MOA)
• Cornell University, MANN library
• Development Gateway
• Development Gateway - Food Access & Availability Special
• French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)
• Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)
• International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD)
• ITrainOnline
• Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF/AFFRC)
• National Agricultural Library, USA
• UAE - Agriculture Information Centre (UAE-AGRICENT)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force (UN-ICT)
• The German Centre for Documentation and Information in Agriculture (ZADI)

The WAICENT portal provides access to the latest highlights, the what’s new page, and FAO web sites with subject entry points, with a range of search options. The FAO Corporate Document Repository houses FAO documents and publications, as well as selected non-FAO publications, in electronic format. Publications added in the last month can be seen at: http://www.fao.org/documents

Report submitted by Sandra K. Peterson, IDTF Agency Liaison

June 20, 2005

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Human Rights

Council of Europe. Directorate General of Human Rights. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. United Nations. Commission on Human Rights

Council of Europe: Directorate General of Human Rights

http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_rights/

The Directorate General of Human Rights supervises the Council of Europe’s human rights policies and standards.

The latest Human Rights Information Bulletin (April 2005) is available online in pdf format at

<http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_rights/hribe.asp>

The Bulletin summarizes events in the field of human rights from the perspective of the Council of Europe.

Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights states that "No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". This article led to the formation of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

The Directorate General’s homepage has links to the following recent publications pertaining to torture:

A report on the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man. 4 March 2005

A report on the Slovak Republic.9 March 2005

A report on Latvia 10 May 2005

Related publications can be obtained online

from the Council of Europe’s Prevention of Torture Database:

<http://www.cpt.coe.int/en/database.htm>

The database indexes all public statements and reports made by the CPT and the standards from the CPT's Annual General Reports. The Committee for the Prevention of Torture also has an electronic mailing list which generates 1-2 messages a month that link to news items. Instructions for subscribing can be found at

<http://www.cpt.coe.int/en/mailing-list.htm>

The Directorate General Homepage notes the European Committee of Social Rights' has found violations of the Council’s social charter concerning corporal punishment of children and the rights of the Roma (Gypsy) population to housing.

All formal complaints of Social Charter Violations are online at < http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_Rights/Esc/4_Collective_complaints/List_of_collective_complaints/01List_%20of_complaints.asp#TopOfPage>.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has adopted Guidelines on the protection of victims of terrorist acts in March 2005. Text of the Guidelines is available online at

http://www.coe.int/T/CM/system/WCDdoc.asp?Ref=CM/Del/Dec%282005%29917/4.2& Ver=0002& Sector=CM& Lang=en#

The Guidelines are available in paper format packaged with The 2002 Guidelines on Human Rights and the Fight Against Terrorism. The book is available from Council of Europe Publishing.

Inquiries regarding Council of Europe Directorate General of Human Rights publications can be addressed to CommissionerHR.Communication@coe.int

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United Nations Commission on Human Rights

<http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/chrintro.htm>

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights meets in Geneva each spring during March and April for a six week session.

In addition to the regular spring session the commission can also meet in special sessions which expedite mechanisms dealing with urgent human rights situations.

Documents from regular and special sessions held from 1982 to the present are available online at

features materials organized by Date, Mandate, Subject, Country, Official, and Type of document.

Questions regarding publications and documents should be addressed to 1503@ohchr.org.

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

http://www.ohchr.org/english/

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights works to maintain the United Nations’ goals of worldwide respect for human rights.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

http://www.ohchr.org/english

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights works to maintain the United Nations’ goals of worldwide respect for human rights.

A new link on the homepage features the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights available in over 300 languages and links to documents pertaining to the 2005 World Programme for Human Rights Education.

The OHCHR’s documents search engine available at

http://www.ohchr.org/english/docsearch.htm

searches for documents in English, French or Spanish.

OHCHR Publications consist of fact sheets, training and educational material, special issue papers, reference material, promotional material and Annual Reports and Appeals. Most publications are available for downloading in PDF format in at least three different languages.

Recent publications include

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights Poster (containing the text of the Universal Declaration and drawings illustrating each article),
• ABC - Teaching Human Rights: Practical activities for primary and secondary schools (French)
• Human Rights and Prisons - A Compilation of International Human Rights Instruments concerning the Administration of Justice (Russian)
• Human Rights and Prisons - A Pocket Book of International Human Rights Standards for Prison Officials (Russian)
• Embedding Human Rights in Business Practice (English)

Selection of Decisions of the Committee of Adopted Human rights adjusted to the Facultative Protocol: Vol.4 (Spanish)

All recent publications including the poster are available online from < http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/>

Email notification of new publications can be obtained by writing to publications@ohchr.org

Questions referring to fact sheets, training and educational material, reference and promotional material, and special issue papers should be addressed to publications@ohchr.org. “Publications” should appear in the “Subject” field

Report submitted by Susan Golding, IDTF Agency Liaison

June 20, 2005

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International Labour Organization - ILO

Notes from Reliable Sources

1. Karin Lee has retired as the publications officer from the ILO Office in Washington, where she served the U.S. library community faithfully for twenty-five years. We will miss her encyclopedic knowledge of ILO publishing, and her willingness to help with tracking any ILO publication.
2. We look forward to working with Marjorie Crow and Kitty Shea in the Washington Office, who still welcome questions.
3. Renouf is now the official source for ILO publications in the U.S. (See full details in the Renouf Publishing Report below.)
4. ILO’s web listings of publications are kept up to date, lsiting important titles on a global basis.
5. Regional Office in London has closed.
6. Regional publications are only listed on the web site of that region’s officeand not on the home ILO web site publications. On the regiion’s site,.often there is not an alphabetical listing for even that region’s publications. Instead, they are listed first by topic, then by year of publication. Renouf hopes to add Regional ILO Publications to their offerings, a most welcome development.
7. ILO does not a separate exhibit at ALA annual conference. Instead, see booths of Renouf and UN Publications.

E-News

1. Both the Ebrary Electronic text service and the MyiLibrary service from Coutts offer a full range of ILO publications in electronic format. Ebrary contains a selection of priced publications, while MyiLibrary coverage is comprehensive, including both priced and free publications in one electronic portal.
2. A Broad Range of useful databases, free on the ILO web site, covers: Country and regional information, labour legislation, labour statistics, occupational safety, social security, terminology, vocational training and rehabilitation, vorld of work

Recent Titles of Special Note:

A Global Alliance Against Forced Labour, Report of the Director-Genera. 2 005, vi + 87 p ISBN 92-2-115360-6 US$29.95 Comprehensive account of contemporary forced labour covers number of people affected and profits made by their exploitation... Covers that imposed by the State for economic, political or other purposes, that linked to poverty, and that which arises from migration and trafficking of workers across national borders.

Hours of Work. From fixed to flexible?& International Labour Conference, 93rd Session, 2005, Report III (Part 1B) 2005, ix+139 pp. ISBN 92-2-115364-9 US$19.95 Hours of work are reviewed in ILO Conventions related to legislation, arbitration awards, collective agreements and individual bargaining. Provides detailed statistics

International Labour Standards Electronic Library 2005, CD-ROM,& Trilingual English/French/Spanish, ISSN 1020-9972& US$9.95& An annual electronic reference library of basic International Labour Standards documents, including ILO Conventions, Recommendations, Constitution, Standing Orders, and other major instruments.

Positive Action: Reducing poverty through social dialogue. A guidebook for trade unions and employers' organizations Rosalind Harvey and Chang-Hee Lee 2005, 88 pp. ISBN 92-2-116151-X US$15.95 Guidebook to help trade unions and employers’ organizations take an active role in the PRSP program to reduce poverty.

Promotion of gender equality inction against child labour and trafficking: a practical guide for organizations by Nelien Haspels and Busakorn Suriyasarn Bangkok: ILO, 2003 71 p ISBN 92-2-115098-4 (print version) [unpriced]ISBN 92-2-115099-2 (Web version)&[Following links are found on the ILO web page under the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, under heading “gender Issues and Women at Work”] Read Online - (2,973 KB) - PDF Read Online by each part - PDF

Working and Employment Conditions in New EU Member States: Convergence or diversity?& Edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead 2005, ix+381 p. ISBN 92-2-117139-6 US$39.95 A first look at labour issues through case studies at the enterprise level in several new EU countries., including employment contracts, working time, wages, social dialogue and workers’ participation, reconciliation of work and family - are combined, interact and are negotiated at local level..

General Information: Renouf is the new agent for purchase of ILO titles in the U.S. For both individual and blanket serials: ILO Pubs in Geneva. Check ILO site at www.ilo.org Inqueries only in the U.S. Contact: Marjorie Crow or Kitty Shea, International Labour Office, 1828 L. Street N.W., Washington DC 20036, Tel: 202-653-7652. Fax: 202-653-7687.

Report submitted by Susan Bennett White, IDTF Agency Liaison

June 20, 2005

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International Monetary Fund - IMF

Debt

Quarterly External Debt Statistics

IMF and World Bank have launched an online database with timely and comparable quarterly external debt statistics for 41 countries. It is updated every three months and brings together external debt statistics that are normally published individually by countries that subscribe to the IMF's Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS). It provides data in a format that enables cross-country comparison. Eventually the goal is to extend participation to all countries where external debt data can be disseminated according to the SDDS requirements. The database is maintained by the World Bank.

It is organized into three sets of tables:

table 1: External Debt Position by Sector, Maturity and Instrument. All participating countries provide data for table 1.

tables 2 and 3: External Debt Position by Domestic - Foreign Currency Split, and Forward Debt Service Schedule. Available data for these tables are more limited as countries work to improve their external debt data.

http://www.worldbank.org/data/working/QEDS/sdds_main.html

Poverty

In September 2000 world leaders adopted the Millennium Development Goals by which, it is hoped, poverty will be reduced by half by 2015. Together with the World Bank, the IMF assesses how well the world countries are doing in implementing these goals.

Global Monitoring Report 2005

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/GLOBALMONITORINGEXT/Resources/complete.pdf

This second annual report has a special focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, because of its particular challenges.

The 2004 report is also available online at: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/GLOBALMONITORINGEXT/Resources/0821358596.pdf

On the same theme of poverty reduction, a recent IMF Working Paper No.05/100 (May 2005) “Does Foreign Aid Reduce Poverty? Empirical Evidence from Nongovernmental and Bilateral Aid” by Nadia Masud and Boriana Yontcheva assesses the impact of foreign aid on human development indicators.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2005/wp05100.pdf

General

World Economic Outlook database

Among changes to the database as of April 2005:

• Afghanistan data is now included.
• The base year for time series expressed in index form is re-indexed to 2000.
• http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2005/01/data/index.htm

Report submitted by Vida Margaitis, IDTF Agency Liaison

June 20, 2005

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InterAmerican Development Bank - IDB

Groundbreaking news: A recent change in implementation of the IDB’s “Information Disclosure Policy” has now allowed any employee of the IDB to post bank documents directly to their website. The policy is available on their website in the Public Information Center section: http://www.iadb.org/exr/pic/VII/policy_disclosure.cfm

This site clarifies the Bank’s policy on information and their determination to have it freely available as soon as possible. This has led to the decision to allow employees who create the documents that fall under the purview of the policy to post them directly. The website remains unchanged in its format so these documents are not easy to identify, but some of the documents that could be controversial are the “Environmental Impact Assessments” for new projects and updates to “Country Strategies” and “Economic Situation and Perspectives” documents.

To find these, go to the main website www.iadb.org, and scroll down to the resources section, then click on the link to the Public Information Center. Find the link to “Strategies” and follow the links to the information. Also, any publications of the Office of Evaluation and Oversight could be sensitive. The IDB is also pursuing rapid methods of getting print documents to the public in member countries to respond to the criticism that they rely too heavily on the web. It will be interesting to see if the IDB continues with this policy as it becomes more known within the organization and more employees comply. It will also be noteworthy if any other investment banks follow their lead.

The website is still under review but the publications and research are still accessible through several different sections (see the January report). The Integration and Regional Programs Department has a new website: http://www.iadb.org/int/index.htm. On the main page they have highlighted a new document that deserves to be on the main publications page. It is The Emergence of China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean. It was posted in March 2005 and is a good source for analysis and statistics.

The Felipe Herrara Library remains a good source of information. The Chief of Library Services,Benita Weber Vassallo, will be retiring soon.

Report submitted by Diane K. Campbell, IDTF Agency Liaison

June 20, 2005

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MyiLibary

Report on MyiLibrary Trial - April 2005

This report is based on a trail in April 2005, while MyiLibrary is progressing at a rapid pace. Since about June 2004, about 7,000 titles have been added to MyiLibrary, and the search interface continues to evolve significantly and rapidly. Both Steve Forest and James Gray of Coutts Library Services have provided detailed and helpful information.

Coverage

MyiLibrary is a full-text database including 4,400 (and counting) intergovernmental agency publications. Agencies include International Atomic Energy AgencyInternational Labour OrganizationInternational Organization for MigrationOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentThe World Bank GroupUN AIDSUnited Nations;and the World Health Organization.

Title counts and coverage) for individual agencies are as follows in April 2005.

IGO agency		Title count		Coverage		All currently available content loaded?
ILO		1,292		1980s, 1996-2003: electronically available priced and un-priced publications 2004-current: comprehensive		Yes
IAEA		182		2001-current: priced publications Newsletters and journals slowly being added.		200 titles to load
IOM		50		Same as ILO		More content on the way from publisher
OECD		886		Currenlty no statistical content unless published in book format, but statistical section will launch in 3-4 days.		More content on the way from publisher. Absolutely duplicates SourceOECD (in a different format).
World Bank		1,497		1995-current: comprehensive Currently no statistical content unless published in book format, but statistical release is planned.		Yes
UNAIDS		312				200 titles to load
UN		0				40 titles 2003/2004 to load 4,000 books and treaties being converted to digital format for inclusion
WHO		181		2003/04-current: priced publications		Yes Awaiting rights clearance on 600 titles Project in place to archive Weekly Epidemiological Record back to 1937