Loans Most Library material may be borrowed by Secretariat staff, mission staff and delegates with a valid grounds pass. The normal loan period is two weeks. Loans are renewable if no other loan request is pending . Special Services Optical Disk Access To provide added access to the United Nations Optical Disk System , the full text database of United Nations documents, the Library has made available several terminals with dedicated access to the ODS in the Woodrow Wilson Reading Room. A number of workstations in the General Reference Reading Room are reserved for Internet access.
Service is on a first come, first serve basis.
For information, please contact the Chief, User Services . At present, this course is open only to delegates and staff of permanent missions. For information, please call the CD-ROM Help Desk . Upon request, the General Reference Desk can electronically provide daily, customized desktop delivery of global news and information extracted from the on-line services to which it subscribes. Reference works and material published in the current year are generally not available through inter-library loan.