Functions

1 To provide information, from library and commercial sources, as needed by the Universal House of Justice, International Teaching Centre, and World Centre Departments and Offices in their work.

1.1 To provide information about published materials to the institutions, Departments and Offices to keep them abreast of developments related to their work.

2 To maintain a central repository for at least one copy of all publications containing significant reference to the Faith, this repository to become the core of the Bahá'í International Library; and to develop a Reference library of the Universal House of Justice, and smaller branch libraries in other World Centre institutions, departments and offices.

3 To order materials for the Bahá'í International Library and all other institutional, departmental and office libraries of the World Centre.

4 To provide information from resources outside the collections of the World Centre Library through searching of Internet and commercial database systems, inter-library borrowing and photocopy requests, and other services provided for and by libraries and information centres.

4.1 The Library coordinates the evaluation, selection and contracting for all such commercial services in consultation with the particular Department or Office making the request, and the Information Services Department.

4.2 The Library provides the primary and central search service for all such commercial information services. Staff members in other Departments or Offices may be designated as primary searchers in a specific database, with the Library providing the professional training and monitoring of the staff member's search work (e.g. costs, procedures, search strategy).