http://www.lib.vt.edu/topics/government/international-government.html en Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:27:30 -0400 obenhaus@vt.edu obenhaus@vt.edu http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/librarians/S_obenhaus-bruce-pic.jpg http://www.lib.vt.edu/topics/government/international-government.html http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/databases/U/unbisnet-from-the-united-nations.html <div style=" width: 200px; float: left;"><div class="vt_img_left vt_small_img"> <span class="top"> </span> <span class="bottom"> </span> <img src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/databases/U/S_unbisnet.gif" alt="UN Bibliographic Information System" height="142px" width="185px" /> </div><img alt="This resource is freely accessible" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_free-database.gif" title="This resource is freely accessible" width="20" /> <img alt="Contents of this resource available through Summon" class="dsp2" height="20" src="http://www.lib.vt.edu/images/L_summon.gif" title="Contents of this resource available through Summon" width="20" /></div><h2><span> <a href="http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=bib&amp;menu=search#focus" title="UNBISnet from the United Nations" class="vt_link_url" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=bib&amp;menu=search#focus')" shape="rect">UNBISnet from the United Nations</a> </span></h2><p><i>UNBISnet</i> is a catalog of United Nations documents, plus commercial publications and other non-UN sources held at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. 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