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1 William H. Patch, The Use of United Nations Documents 1 (1962)

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OCCASIONAL PAPERS

Number 64

March 1962

THE USE OF UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS

by William H. Patch , Doctiments Librarian
Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin
Introduction
The great value of United Nations documents lies in their wide range
of subject matter as well as in the accuracy and authority with which they
are prepared. Because of the belief that peace may be encouraged and
maintained by many different means, the United Nations has undertaken
work in many fields other than the strictly diplomatic proceedings of the
General Assembly and Security Council, about which so much is heard.
One of the first things a student notices when he begins work with the
U.N. material is the almost overwhelming volume of it. A few figures
will suffice to impress this point, for it is this tremendous number of in-
dividual pieces that causes the difficulty in finding specific information.
The following figures represent the 'total number of entries year by year
in the United Nations Documents Index since its beginning in 1950:

7,502
6,859
6,886
6,015
5,731
6,170
5,019
7,022
6,776
6,583
6,094

Although this tabulation is not strictly accurate as a count of doc-
uments, it does come reasonably close. If we take the figure given by
Harry N. M. Winton of 41, 000 documents' for the period from 1946 through

1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957.
1958
1959
1960

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