The ILO Library has created an extensive digital collection of ILO documents and publications since 1919 in many languages. All collections are full-text searchable and freely available on the web. Our goal is to facilitate access to ILO content for readers around the world.

International Labour Conference

Records of Proceedings, Director-General's Report, Committee of Experts, General Survey, technical reports and more, since 1919 in English, French, Spanish, with some reports also available in Arabic, Chinese, German or Russian.

Governing Body

Minutes since 1919 in English, French and Spanish.

ILO Conventions - background and preparatory work

Discover the background and history of the adoption of ILO Conventions. For each instrument, you will find texts of the preparatory reports, discussions at the International Labour Conference, committee reports, votes and texts of the Convention. It covers all up-to-date Conventions and 5 Protocols.

Official Bulletin

The official record of ILO activities since 1919 in English, French, Spanish.

ILO Working papers

Over 2000 working papers published since the 1960s.

International Labour Review

Published since 1921, the International Labour Review is the world's leading multidisciplinary journal of labour market institutions and economics.

English: 1921-1968; French: 1921-1968; Spanish: 1921-1998

Finding more digital content

The entire digital collection is included in Labordoc, the ILO Library's catalogue and repository. Search or browse Labordoc to discover both digital and analogue (print) content. Subscribe to an RSS feed in Labordoc to be updated whenever new content is added in your subject area.

ILO Library Digitization Programme

The Library has been actively digitizing ILO publications since 2007. After some initial testing, we did our first big project in Lima with the digitization of ILC documents in Spanish. Since that time, we have made significant progress every year, selecting collections to be digitized according to demand and importance to the work of the ILO.
We have now digitized the vast majority of ILO publications since 1919. We are at the point where we need to fill in the gaps by digitizing items that have not already been included because we did not hold copyright, the item itself is fragile or damaged, the item is a unique copy or maybe it was held only in a library outside Geneva.
Our goal is to achieve 95% coverage of all ILO publications.