UNITED NATIONS1-3-02
Dear Ms. XX,
The procedure for a library pass is the following: the interested party needs to fill out an application form and supply a letter of recommendation in support of the research. If the needed material is not available in a UN depository library (the list of depository libraries is posted at: http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/countries/), the application is approved and sent to UN Security. UN Security checks the application and, if approval is granted, instructs the Pass Office to issue a library pass for the applicant.
The issuance of a library pass is independent of NGO status or any other status. There has been no change in the library pass policy in general; however, please be advised that, as a consequence of the September 11 attacks, no library passes are being issued for the time being while the security situation at the UN is being studied.
Best regards,
Dana LoytvedSenior Reference Librarian-UN/SA Reference Desk-United Nations Library, New York-E-mail: [email protected]
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1) Although the Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the NGO Section are both within DPI, admission to the Library is not related to NGO status except in the positive sense: anyone with a pass permitting entrance to the United Nations premises (including accredited NGO representatives as well as accredited members of the press) can enter and use the Library facilities. Otherwise, a library pass is required. Passes are granted to serious researchers upon presentation of a letter with the raised seal of your institution and subject to clearance by both the Library and UN Security.
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Upon reading this and the related information as regards library access, it would seem to me that if you were an affiliated NGO, you would have free and unfettered access to the library which requires security clearance. This would be on a continual basis.
If you were NOT a NGO, you can still apply for secure library access on a case-by-case one-at-a-time basis. That is, you would have to apply for two security clearances EACH and EVERY time you went to use the Dag Hammarskjöld library.
Could it be possible that the WTS applied to be and was approved as an NGO for this convenience basis?
Obviously, according to their teachings at this time and since, it would still be hypocritical to do this -- as if Jehovah's decrees are subject to be obeyed only when convenient (at least according to their interpretaion of Revelation)
Could this be plausible? If not, shoot it down.