The Language Services (LS) Library maintains a collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias, and monographs in various languages. The subject emphasis is on economics, finance, law, and linguistics. All Fund publications are kept by the Library while Fund documents are kept by the RTD Reference Services. Documents from other international organizations are kept by the Library, mostly in English, French, and Spanish.

The Library is classified under the Library of Congress Classification System The staff will help you locate books and documents,and will query online the JOLIS Catalogue, which contains all publications and indexed articles available within the 12 Bank/Fund Network Libraries.

The LS Library provides all Language Services staff with a "kit of books" individually prepared for the staff's language combinations and work-related needs. This kit of books will be assigned to the staff member who will be responsible for it while working in LS. Upon separation, it should be returned to the Library.

The LS Library has a reading area where you can read or borrow books, newspapers, and periodicals. When borrowing newspapers and periodicals,please find the sign-up sheet on the reading table to register your name and periodical (with date, volume, and issue number). When returning a borrowed item, please add date returned to the same entry. To borrow books, please check the book with the Library Assistant. If the Library Assistant is not available, please register your name, your ID, title of the publication and barcode in the sign-up sheets on the reading table or on the library counter; the purpose of the barcodes is to maintain collection usage statistics.

The Library staff will research and answer your terminology queries in relation to national and international official names or titles, as well as technical terminology, by consulting the IMF Terminology Database, or other sources. The LS Library is also the link to terminology and documentation services from other international organizations and national authorities.

The Reference, Terminology, and Documentation Section (RTD) maintains the electronic IMF Terminology Database, which contains approximately 65,000 terms mainly in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. From this database, printed versions of the IMF Glossary containing approximately 5,000 records are produced. Copies of the different language combinations of the IMF Glossary may be obtained directly from the IMF Publications Services in EXR publications@imf.org

• The first edition of the Portuguese Glossary is expected to be published in May 2003.
  
  
• The sixth edition of the English-French-Spanish IMF Glossary was published in April 2002.
  
  
• The 2nd edition of the English-French-Arabic Glossary was published in August 2000.
  
  
• The second edition of the English-Chinese Glossary was published in April 1999.
  
  
• The English-French-Russian Glossary was published in April 1998 and the second edition will be published in March 2003.
  
  
• The English-French-German Glossary was published in September 1998.
  
  
• First edition on Cd-ROM English-French-Spanish was published in September 1998. The second edition expanded to contain German-Russian will be published in the Fall of 1999.
  

RTD also produces topical Terminology Bulletins, copies of which are available from Departmental AOs or from the LS Library. Some of the subjects we cover are:

• Currency list :
  English-French-German-Russian-Spanish;
  English-French-Arabic;
  English-Chinese.
  
  
• Country List and Adjectives of Nationality : English-French-German-Portuguese-Spanish.
  
  
• GFS/GFSY. English-French-Spanish.
  
  
• IFS/IFSY/GMBS. English-French-Spanish.
  
  
• Organizational Structure of the IMF :
  
  • by departments: English-French-German-Portuguese-Russian-Spanish.
    English-Chinese
    
  • alphabetically: English-French-German-Portuguese-Russian-Spanish.
  
  
• Staff Titles: English-French-German-Portuguese-Spanish
  
  
• International and Regional Organizations and Related Terms: English-French-German-Portuguese-Spanish
  
  
• AM List : This list is prepared for IMF/World Bank interpreters and updated at the time of Annual Meetings and Spring Meetings every year.
  
  English-French-Arabic
  English-Chinese
  English-French-Spanish (in 3 columns)
  English-French-German-Portuguese-Russian-Spanish and Acronyms