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Although Headquarters New York has been served by a library since 1946, in 1961 the UN’s library moved into a new building constructed through the generosity of the Ford Foundation and the persistence of former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. It is fitting that the building was dedicated as the Dag Hammarskjold Library in his memory.

The Library has a very extensive collection of UN documents and publications, a strong League of Nations collection and a selective collection of specialized agency materials. The focus of its non-UN collection is in the areas of the work programme of the General Assembly and Security Council: disarmament, economic and social affairs, humanitarian affairs, international law, international relations, peace and security, peacekeeping, statistics, etc.