United Nations - Dag Hammarskjöld Library

Fredens Pris: Dag Hammarskjöld och visionen om FN (The Vision of a Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN, 1953-61)

The screening of "Fredens Pris: Dag Hammarskjöld och visionen om FN" (The Vision of a Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN, 1953-61), a film by Stig Homlqvist and produced by Göran Gunér, takes place on Thursday, 18 January 2007, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at 6.30 p.m. The film will be introduced by Sir Brian Urquhart.



Fredens Pris: Dag Hammarskjöld och visionen om FN (The Vision of a Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN, 1953-61)

The screening of "Fredens Pris: Dag Hammarskjöld och visionen om FN" (The Vision of a Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN, 1953-61), a film by Stig Homlqvist and produced by Göran Gunér, will take place on Monday, 18 September 2006, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at 12 noon.

The film provides a picture of Dag Hammarskjöld, the UN and the world at the time of his tenure as Secretary-General. Following the film there will be a brief unveiling ceremony of several photographs by Dag Hammarskjöld that have been presented to the Library by Dag Hammarskjöld's niece, Marlene Hagström, and recently hung in the Library's 1st Floor Reading Room.

Knowledge Management: What is it?

In its report on the Thematic Evaluation of Knowledge Management Networks in the Pursuit of the Goals of the Millennium Declaration (24 March 2006), the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services recommended, among other things, that the Secretariat Task Force on Knowledge Sharing develop a Secretariat-wide knowledge sharing strategy to promote the role of knowledge networks in strengthening knowledge sharing within the Secretariat and with external partners as well as to develop a model and methodology for how those networks can best work.

To help staff understand this new Secretariat-wide endeavor, Linda Stoddart, Chair of the Task Force on Knowledge Sharing will give a presentation on “Knowledge Management: What is it? Will it really make us effective?”. This will be followed by an interview with Bruce Strong, an expert in Knowledge Management, on the impact of knowledge sharing initiatives in a variety of organizations. The event will take place on Wednesday, 6 September 2006, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at 11 a.m.

Bruce Strong was instrumental in revamping the knowledge management programs of PricewaterhouseCoopers and the World Bank, and has led the effort to develop strategies in this area for several prominent organizations.

The United Nations has embarked on the development and planning of an enterprise content management system. To help staff understand the issues around this topic, the Dag Hammarskjöld Library has organized a presentation by Martin White on Managing Information and Knowledge in Organizations : Making Effective Use of Enterprise Search and Content Management Systems. The event takes place on Monday, 22 May 2006, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium at 11 a.m.

The presentation provides an introduction to the business and technology of enterprise search and suggests approaches to the specification and selection of an enterprise search solution, and the critical factors for the success of such a project.

Martin White is the author of the Content Management Handbook and the Enterprise Search Guidebook.

This event in the Series concludes the commemoration of the centenary of the birth of former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. The topic under discussion is "The International Civil Servant : Then and Now, Theory and Practice". The event takes place at UN Headquarters on 2 February 2006, Conference Room 3, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Webcast (Duration: 59min). (Note: free RealPlayer is needed to view webcasts.)



The Dag Hammarskjöld Library marks the centenary of the birth of former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, and sees this as an opportunity to reaffirm his legacy, the values and impact of the work of the United Nations.

To honour the memory of Dag Hammarskjöld, the Library is organizing a Lectures and Conversations Series with the support of the Government of Sweden. The events of the Series are listed in chronological order.

The first conversation is on the topic "Dag Hammarskjöld's legacy and its relevance to the United Nations today". It takes place on Monday, 4 April 2005, (Conference Room 4, from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m.), drawing attention to the date when Dag Hammarskjöld assumed office as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, 10 April 1953. This conversation is available as a webcast. (Duration: 1h 25min) (Note: free RealPlayer is needed to view webcasts.)

The topic of the second event is "The Tsunami disaster : beyond relief towards development". It takes place on 25 July 2005 at UN Headquarters in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, from 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. It is held in commemoration of the birthday of Dag Hammarskjöld who was born on 29 July 1905. Webcast (Duration: 1h 5min). (Note: free RealPlayer is needed to view webcasts.)

Dag Hammarskjöld met his death on 18 September 1961 in a plane accident while on a peace mission in the Congo. The topic of the third lecture is "Peacekeeping and conflict resolution: then and now". The event takes place on Wednesday, 5 October 2005, Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, from 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. Webcast (Duration: 1h 9min). (Note: free RealPlayer is needed to view webcasts.)

On 16 November 1961, the Dag Hammarskjöld Library was dedicated, in the hope that it “might be considered in some measure an appropriate remembrance of Mr. Hammarskjöld's life”. The fourth lecture which is held on Monday, 14 November 2005, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., takes the form of a panel discussion on the topic "From collections to connections: information and knowledge for global decision-making". This panel discussion also marks the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, held from 16 to 18 November 2005 in Tunis, Tunisia. Webcast (Duration: 1h 48min). (Note: free RealPlayer is needed to view webcasts.)