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On 10 June 1952, the Library of FAO was officially opened and named the David Lubin Memorial Library:
"In recognition of the foresight, leadership, and outstanding contribution of David Lubin to international co-operation in the field of agriculture". (FAO Conference 1950)
Today the David Lubin Memorial Library preserves one and a half million FAO and non-FAO publications, among which a collection of rare books and incunabula and the historic collections of the International Institute of Agriculture (IIA), the predecessor of FAO. [more]

The Library welcomes both FAO staff and external visitors.

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Exploring the FAO Library resources

Public: Search the online FAO Library Catalog to find FAO documents since 1945 (digital and print), non FAO monographs since 1976 and an extensive FAO and non FAO serials collection. To consult the IIA collections and pre-1976 non FAO material, write us at fao-library-reference@fao.org.

FAO staff: Online journals and e-books are searchable through the Full-text finder search-box below.

Libraries & the Sustainable Development Goals

The FAO Library presented the poster "How the FAO library is translating the SDGs into tangible knowledge" at the 85th IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Greece last August. The central theme: the Library's monthly e-bulletin which focusses on specific UN and FAO events related to one of the 17 SDGs. The bulletin not only proved to be a way to get concrete literature on specific topics to FAO staff in headquarters and the field, but also a way to align the Library collection and workflow to the SDGs.

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Databases & e-journals*	Bibliographic research	Elsevier*	Springer Nature e-journals*	Springer Nature e-books*

Africa Confidential	FAO Library catalog	The Focus collection Access:Science Direct Coverage (excel):	Food security	Biomedical and Life Science
African Research Online	Web of Science* including EndNote	> 3,505 monographs > 28 encyclopedia's > 24 reference manuals	Climatic Change	Earth & Environmental Science
EconLit	CAB Abstracts* including:		Agronomy for Sustainable Development	Business and Management
Economist Intelligence Unit	> Crop Protection Compendium	The Government edition Access: Science Direct Coverage (pdf): > 2,285 journals	Tropical Animal Health and Production	Economics and Finance
Nature	> Forestry Compendium		Regional Environmental Change	Political Science and International Studies
Nature Climate Change	> Aquaculture Compendium		Ambio	Social sciences
Oxford English Dictionary	> Animal Health & Production Compendium		Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change	Humanities, Social Science & Law
Science	> Invasive Species Compendium		Agroforestry Systems
Yearbook of International Organizations	> Plantwise Knowledge Bank		Environmental Management
OECD publications	> Horizon Scanning Tool		Agriculture and Human Values
	Journal Tables of Content*		Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution
			The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
			Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
			Sustainability Science
			Plant and Soil
			Biodiversity and Conservation
			Review of World Economics
			Water Resources Management
			Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
			Human Ecology
			Water, Air & Soil pollution