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The DCISM Library

Overview

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… arguably the foremost Danish collection within the fields of international relations and human rights

Staff of 9 persons

… 100,000+ books and reports; 1,000+ journal and yearbook titles (2004 budget ca. EUR 200.000)

…the merger of 4 previously independent libraries, as well as the two collections of the Foreign Ministry

The DCISM Library

A Website < www.dcism.dk/library>

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The DCISM Library

The databases (I)

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The DCISM Library

The databases (II)

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125.000 records

Define search range (type of publication)

In process

Online / print

Subject-defined (int.relations / development / human rights)

SFX

Metalib

…

The DCISM Library

Users

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Internals…

Externals…

From the distance… the library has moved

Library to library… ILL

The DCISM Library

Profile

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Value adding (indexing, annotating, create context, Gatekeeping / monitoring … )

Acquisition policies – stay in the drivers seat…

Size matters …

Link to ”deep” research and ”policy research”

Link to other users, regret the missing teaching

Positioning / internally - externally

The DCISM Library

Business concept

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Outsourcing (IT, Subscriptions, Purchasing?, Cataloguing?)

Insourcing

The Foreign Ministry …

RUF research project database

Library services (individual departments)

? The Danish Immigration Service (Udlændingestyrelsen)

The DCISM Library

Networking

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EADI InfoM …

NorDoc …

Huridocs …

Einiras …

Conference of Danish Special Libraries (LSF) …

More … ?

The NorDoc Network

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The NorDoc Network

Activities

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Yearly meetings (25 – 50 persons)

E.g. Institutional repositories, Researching terrorism (Timo Kivimäki, Birthe Hansen) ….

List server , Directory and a WEB-home

Thesaurus or

Journals / Articles ( ~ EINIRAS Database Network)

The Danish Centre for International Studies and Human Rights

Bill of Parliament L 183, 2001-02

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§ 1 DCISM, two institutes, administration and a public, lending library

- Danish Institute for International Studies

- Danish Institute for Human Rights

§ 2,1-3 … (DIIS) documentation and information, as well as a library on international affairs

§ 2,2-6 … (IMR) ensure library and documentation of human rights issues

DCISM

A house of many Gods - 2 + 3

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DCISMA home for the merged

IIS• DUPI ~ Foreign policy,

Int. relations, Cold war

• CDR ~ Development

• COPRI ~ conflicts

• DCHF ~ Genocide, Holocaust

IMR• DCMR ~ Human rights

• NEL (Board for Ethnic

Equality)

Danish Institute for International Studies

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DIIS

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Profile research and policy analysis /advice, whitebooks, support initiatives e.g. Cold war, migration, Middle East and the (?) position of DK in the Security Council (Committee on terrorism?)

Departments

Cross-cutting?

Conflict / staff numbers?

All departments?

Danish Institute for International Studies

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Danish Institute for Human Rights

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IMR

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Profile – the national focal … (?)

International

”NGO” / Project factory

Research

National

EINIRAS relevance?

THE END

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