Such indexing is being compared to accounting standards.

Document imaging scanning, indexing, retrieving and archiving digital images of text, graphics, engineering drawings and photographs

But the latter are technical and gain from standardization the former are not and must reflect variety instead.

Libraries of the regional commissions and other offices were invited to join in the shared indexing network and produce bibliographic records for United Nations documents produced at their respective duty stations.

In 2004, as Delicious began to take off, similar services Furl, Simpy, Spurl.net, and unalog were released, along with CiteULike and Connotea (sometimes called social citation services) and the related recommendation system Stumbleupon.

An integrated library system (ILS), also known as a library management system (LMS),is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed.

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library also hosted a meeting of United Nations system libraries, where participants agreed to collaborate on the development of a central gateway to all United Nations system library resources to replace the United Nations System Shared Cataloguing and Public Access System.