Dag Hammarskjöld Library

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library, next to UN headquarters

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library ( officially Dag Hammarskjöld Library) is a library that is located in New York City at the United Nations Headquarters. It is named after the Swedish politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. The library has a special library by mandate to serve the goal of the information needs of the staff of the mission and of the Secretariat. For this they collect publications by and about the United Nations and partly also of the specialized agencies. The Dag Hammarskjöld Library, leads the global library system of the UN.

The library was founded in 1946 under the name United Nations Library, on the legislative mandate was posted on September 28, 1949 matched. Later, the library renamed in United Nations International Library. For the construction of a new library building, the Ford Foundation has donated 6.2 million U.S. dollars. Shortly after the accidental death of Dag Hammarskjöld, the library was renamed on November 16, 1961 in Dag Hammarskjöld Library.

The structure of the library the Woodrow Wilson Collection heard about the League of Nations. The collection was presented to the Library in 1950 by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Also, about 200 records of interviews of famous personalities and over 9,800 magazines are visible. In addition, the library includes an extensive collection of maps, with over 80,000 maps and atlases, tourist guides and other geographic reference works and a large inventory of legal and scientific literature.