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Reference encyclopedia profiling international non-governmental (INGOs) and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) except for-profit enterprises.

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Published since 1910, it contains entries on over 64,000 civil society organizations in 300 countries and territories, from formal structures to informal networks. Search by geography, subject, or personal name. The database links to websites of many organizations, and includes a GOOGLE IGO search engine for the web sites of international governmental organizations.

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Comprehensive annual reference work dedicated to the analysis of Europe’s dynamic Muslim populations. Summarizes significant activities, trends and developments, and features current statistical information available from more than 40 European countries.

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Alternate Name(s):UN Yearbook Collection

Contains volumes 1-68 of the UN Yearbook, providing an overview of the activities of the United Nations for the year.

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Provides overview of the activities of the UN and its official bodies, includes references to resolutions and official documents by UN symbol number. Published by the Department of Public Information. Provides coverage of political and security matters, human rights issues, economic and social questions, legal issues, and institutional, administrative and budgetary matters.

Indiana University-Bloomington serves as a depository for UN documents and holds the complete print set of the Yearbook of the United Nations as well as most other documents produced and distributed by the UN. For additional assistance contact the Government Information, Microforms and Statistical Services Department, C264 IUB Herman B Wells Library, 812-855-6924, email: libgimms@iu.edu.

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1946 - current volume - Updated annually
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Alternate Name(s):Yidish Verṭerbukh, Yiddish-English Dictionary

English version of the of the Dictionnaire yiddish-français by Yitskhok Niborski and Bernard Vaisbrot. Includes broad coverage of Yiddish words of all origins: Hebrew-Aramaic, Slavic, and Romance as well as Germanic.

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Also includes many regional and dialectal variants are included alongside standard literary Yiddish forms.

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Alternate Name(s):Yiddish Prints

About 800 valuable Yiddish books, printed in Hebrew letters, from the Frankfurt University Library.

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The texts were printed in Hebrew letters in West, Central and East Europe. The dates range from the middle of the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century. The collection contains the whole spectrum of Yiddish texts, including a large number of women's bibles (Tse'na Re'ena), liturgy, medical guide books, science and education, works on religious customs (Minhagim), legends, historical chronicles and translations of well known tales like "A Thousand and one Nights".

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Alternate Name(s):Yomidas Rekishikan ヨミダス歴史館

Includes access to the full-text of Yomiuri Shinbun from the inaugural issue on Nov. 2, 1874 to the present, and the English paper, The Daily Yomiuri, from September 1989 to the present. Also includes Regional Sections of the Showa Era, and a Biographical dictionary Who’s who of 26,000 modern Japanese figures.

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Articles are keyword indexed to 8/31/1986, and can be searched full-text from 9/1/1986 to present.

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Alternate Name(s):연행록 = 燕行錄

Full-text collection of Korean classical books including: history, literature, folk literature, natural history, oriental medicine, religion, myth, and other classical works.

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Virtual tours taking you across space to see ruins in countries like Egypt, Greece, and Italy as well as back in time to see the ruins spring to life in computer reconstructions. 

Feedback should be directed to Catherine Minter (cjminter@iu.edu) by January 31, 2025. 

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