Information
Services
The
Library - Publications
The Library
The SAMAT Library and Documentation Centre
has been in existence for over ten years. Like all other ILO
information services, it aims at upholding Article 10 of the ILO
constitution which states that the functions of the ILO should
include the collection and distribution of information on all
subjects relating to the international adjustment of conditions
of industrial life and labour.
Available Information
The library, which is computerised, holds
books, journals, reports and documents on labour and its related
fields. The collection also has specific labour information for
the nine SAMAT countries.
Databases available on CD-ROM are: ILOLEX
which is a full-text trilingual database on international labour
standards; NATLEX, which is a database on national legislation
and LABORDOC, the ILO headquarters database on labour statistics
from 1965 to the present.
Services
The principal users of the Library are the
team members. While it is open to officials from government,
trade unions and employers by appointment, the access by the
members of the public is limited. Enquiries are welcome by letter,
fax or telephone. The Library does not have a loan service but
photocopying facilities are available to a limited extent.
Searches on ILOLEX, NATLEX, LABORDOC and the SAMAT database can
be done on behalf of the client.
The Documentation Centre sells all ILO
publications on sale. Payment in local currency is required
before book orders are sent to Geneva. Delivery period is between
four and six weeks.
Opening Hours:
Monday to Thursday
09.00 -12.30
14.00 -16.30
Friday
09.00 -12.30
For further information, please contact Ms. Maria
MUTANDWA
Publications
The ILO/SAMAT newsletter has been set
up to form a link between ILO specialists and social partners
in the sub-region, to create a forum for the exchange of
views and ideas and to inform the ILO's social partners of
SAMAT's ongoing and forthcoming activities. It aims at
establishing a forum for the discussion of key issues relating to the changing labour and employment scene in the
Southern Africa sub-region.
Globalisation, regional integration and
the continuing wave of economic and political liberalisation
in the sub-region have thrown an exciting range of new challenges and opportunities for SAMAT's Constituents. The
newsletter aims to track these developments, bringing important issues and debates to their attention and at the
same time present SAMAT's own view.
As one of its services, SAMAT publishes
a series of discussion papers on labour and social issues.
Through this series, SAMAT seeks to create an ongoing
dialogue with workers, governments, and employers by
suggesting application of the ILO Conventions in a regional
context, presenting ideas for new labour and social policy
directions, and providing regional statistical data and
comparisons which enable member states to learn from each other's
experience.
The series is intended to provide an
ILO perspective on these issues, with a view to suggesting
ideas and alternatives which can be taken into account by
policy makers in the fields of labour and development. In
this way, Discussion Papers aim to provide a basis for
technical cooperation between the ILO and its Constituents in
Southern Africa.
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