About the Resource Centre

The Bergen Resource Centre for International Development is a joint project organized by the University of Bergen and the Chr. Michelsen Institute. The new building in Jekteviksbakken 31  hosts development researchers from  the University, CMI and UNIFOB global and will nourish cooperation between researchers and projects.

The Resource Centre is a meeting place for researchers, business people, students and others interested in and working with international development, global problems and development research. It is a place for seminars, meetings, exhibitions and, films. The Resource Centre houses the largest specialized collections in Norway on books and periodicals on Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. It includes the book collection from the Centre for Middle East Studies at the University of Bergen, and also hosts the very famous Sudan collection by Mahmoud S.O.Salih. Collections of documents covering subjects like development aid, human rights, women in development, poverty, peace and violence etc is also available. The Resource Centre will function as a national resource and documentation centre collecting and disseminating information on research results. The Resource Centre has reading space for people who would like to sit here and study or to use the online databases and web resources available.

We hope that the Bergen Resource Centre for International Development will be used by many and will put Bergen at the map as the most important Norwegian city for important meetings and research output related to international development.

 

The book collections

After CMI and the Centre of Middle East Studies at the University of Bergen relocated to the resource centre, the two book collections were brought together. As a result, the resource centre library houses the largest specialized collections in Norway on development studies and is an oasis of valuable information open to the public.

Focus: Development studies covering for instance economics, political science, and anthropology, poverty, peace, conflict and development aid. Regional studies on Africa, Asia, Middle East and Latin America. Our Sudan collection has been augmented with the Mahmoud Salih Collection, and stands as one of the most comprehensive of its kind in Europe.

Norwegian depository library: The resource centre library houses all official World Bank publications (see The World Bank's Development Info Kiosk). The library is also depository library for all publications from the Asian Development Bank.