:: Services

  • Conducting bibliographic and online research to satisfy current information needs related to programme and management
  • Proactive development and dissemination of information resources to ensure timely access to information needs
  • Ensuring electronic desktop access to high value information and research
  • Professional consultation related to information input to projects and programme activities
  • Working with the clients, individually and in teams, to provide expert bibliographic research advice and support
  • Providing internet access and desktop access to the library’s online catalogue (http://ecalib.uneca.org).

Outreach services to member states

  • Developing, maintaining and providing access to online databases to enhance global accessibility of African development information
  • Building capacity in the application of international standards and best practices for information processing and exchange of information
  • Advocating the value of broad-based information access and knowledge-related policies and strategies in socioeconomic development and good governance
  • Establishing and marinating strategic alliances and partnerships with regional and international development organizations in the area of social and economic information services

Document Delivery Services:

The ECA library has access to extensive databases covering the major journals of interest to the ECA user community. Users can also access full-text articles through the UN Library consortium, which maintains subscriptions to numerous electronic resources. For more urgent access to journal articles, we can either request the document through our Inter-Library Loan arrangements or through the British Library Document Delivery Services (BLDSC), through which we can receive articles in as little as two hours.

Library cooperation and networking:

UN System for electronic information and acquisition Consortium (UNSEIAC)

Official document system of the UN (ODS)
[http://www.ods.un.org or http://www.undocs.unog.ch]

UN Bibliographic Information System
[http://www.un.org/departments/dhl/datab.htm]

UN Steering Committee for the modernization and Integrated Management of UN Libraries

UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Library and Document Services (Addis Ababa);

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), [http://www.ifla.org] and major information systems and networks;

The African Virtual Library and Information Network, (AVLIN) , (ECA, Addis Ababa).

African Virtual Library and Information Network (AVLIN)

Discussion Fora

Major Libraries in Africa