The United Nations Yearbook
The United Nations Yearbook
http://unyearbook.un.org
Grades: All | Subject(s): All | Overall rating: 8
I had a difficult time finding yearbooks that were not school yearbooks. While I enjoy browsing school yearbooks, I did not think that was the purpose of this project. I did find the United Nations Yearbook site to be incredibly interesting. When you enter the site, you can search for a topic, change the language to read the site in English or select from five other languages, browse social media for the UN, browse topics to be covered in yearbooks still within the publishing process, and the ability to browse each yearbook since 1946-1947 in electronic book format. According to the site, the yearbooks contain comprehensive "coverage of political and security matters, human rights issues, economic and social questions, legal issues, and institutional, administrative and budgetary matters."
I elected to browse the 2009 Yearbook for this project. Users can download a PDF copy of the yearbook, read it within the browser window, search for a particular phrase, or jump to a section. The 2009 Yearbook is divided into five parts: political and security questions, human rights, economic and social questions, legal questions, and institutional, administrative and budgetary questions.
I assigned a rating of 8 for this resource. While the site was helpful, it was sluggish and crashed often while trying to browse the yearbook on both a PC and a Mac. The search feature was nice, and the information could be helpful to someone researching a UN topic; however, the interface was frustrating.
Source Articles:
The Yearbook of the United Nations. (2009). Retrieved September 29, 2014 from:
http://www.unmultimedia.org/searchers/yearbook/page.jsp?
volume=2009&page=2&searchType=advanced.
http://unyearbook.un.org
Grades: All | Subject(s): All | Overall rating: 8
I had a difficult time finding yearbooks that were not school yearbooks. While I enjoy browsing school yearbooks, I did not think that was the purpose of this project. I did find the United Nations Yearbook site to be incredibly interesting. When you enter the site, you can search for a topic, change the language to read the site in English or select from five other languages, browse social media for the UN, browse topics to be covered in yearbooks still within the publishing process, and the ability to browse each yearbook since 1946-1947 in electronic book format. According to the site, the yearbooks contain comprehensive "coverage of political and security matters, human rights issues, economic and social questions, legal issues, and institutional, administrative and budgetary matters."
I elected to browse the 2009 Yearbook for this project. Users can download a PDF copy of the yearbook, read it within the browser window, search for a particular phrase, or jump to a section. The 2009 Yearbook is divided into five parts: political and security questions, human rights, economic and social questions, legal questions, and institutional, administrative and budgetary questions.
I assigned a rating of 8 for this resource. While the site was helpful, it was sluggish and crashed often while trying to browse the yearbook on both a PC and a Mac. The search feature was nice, and the information could be helpful to someone researching a UN topic; however, the interface was frustrating.
Source Articles:
The Yearbook of the United Nations. (2009). Retrieved September 29, 2014 from:
http://www.unmultimedia.org/searchers/yearbook/page.jsp?
volume=2009&page=2&searchType=advanced.