Research Guides: How to Use the UN Digital Library: Specialized Searches

Searches for specific things that require deep metadata knowledge

Personal Names: Metadata team tagged a selection of resources used to identify personal names (Committee membership list, Blue Books, list of delegations, Yearbook) for indexing purposes with 930:PN, so that it's easier to do a full text search in the UNDL. You can combine it with a year in 830 (year of coverage as opposed to publication year). Here's an example for someone with the name Smith in 1951: https://digitallibrary.un.org/search?ln=en&p=930%3APN+fulltext%3Asmith+830%3A1951&f=&action_search=Search&rm=&sf=&so=d&rg=50&c=Resource+Type&c=UN+Bodies&c=&of=hb&fti=0&fti=0 Note that not all of these resources have been digitized yet.
Series titles: MARC 830 used to create series titles (uniform title) for recurrent reports such as annual/sessional reports of principal organs and subsidiaries, also used for Press Release series and serial publications, as well as reports of special rapporteurs.