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Updated on 28/09/2011
 

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TYPE  OF  LIBRARY

 

 

The Library of the European Court of Human Rights is specialised in human rights law, particulary the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, but also including comparative law and public international law

AREA

705 m² on 2 floors

COLLECTION

Monographs : 25 559

Articles in periodicals : 18 488

Chapters in books : 5 700

Doctrines on the ECHR : 2 645

Periodicals : 126

CATALOGUE

iLink online catalogue

LANGUAGE  COVERAGE

Items in the collection are mainly in the two official languages - English and French - but other languages such as German, Italian etc. are also represented

LIBRARY  SYSTEM

Unicorn from SirsiDynix (US)

CATALOGUING  FORMAT

MARC 21

CATALOGUING  RULES

"Anglo-American cataloguing rules". - 2nd ed., 1998 revision

TRANSLITERATION  RULES

"ALA-LC romanization tables : transliteration schemes for non-roman scripts". - 1997

CLASSIFICATION  SYSTEM

"Classification décimale universelle". - 1990
with internal adaptations

THESAURUS

Internal key word list

STAFF

5 librarians

LIBRARY  COMMITTEE

5 judges and 3 members of the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights
 






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