ELECTRONIC INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICES AVAILABLE TO UN DELEGATES, SECRETARIAT STAFF IN DAG HAMMARKSJOLD LIBRARY
Press Release
PI/975
ELECTRONIC INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICES AVAILABLE TO UN DELEGATES, SECRETARIAT STAFF IN DAG HAMMARKSJOLD LIBRARY
19961017 Access to live-time newsfeeds from major international newswires and newspapers is now available in the General Reference Reading Room, of the Dag Hammarksjold Library (room L-105) at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Two public workstations have dedicated access to NewsEdge, a live-time news feed, carrying the wire services of Agence France Presse (English-wire); Reuters World Service; Economist Wire; Financial Times; Los Angeles Times/Washington Post; Oxford Analytica; United Press, and Federal News.Access is on a first-come, first-served basis. Users can retrieve selected stories according to a customized profile or all news, as it is reported. An adjacent Help Desk is fully staffed to provide fast and friendly assistance. Printing is available but, because of the cost, it is preferred that readers bring diskettes for downloading.
Also available through the Dag Hammarksjold Library, to any mission or office of the United Nations with e-mail capability, is a customized desktop delivery service from World News Connection, an electronic international news service which replaces in part the former Foreign Broadcast Information Service reports. This news service provides access to full text and summaries of magazine, newspaper, and newswire stories, transcripts from speeches and radio and television broadcasts, and non-classified technical reports from sources throughout the world.
To any mission or Secretariat staff member, the Dag Hammarksjold Library will send daily, via e-mail, a summary of all news stories in the stated area or areas of interest. Users requesting the full text of selected items, reports, etc. can simply notify the Library and the requested material will be transmitted the same day.
To arrange for this service, or for more information on other Dag Hammarksjold Library news-gathering and disseminating activities, please contact the General Reference Desk, room L-105, 963-5142 or 963-7394 or e-mail: cherifm@un.org
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