The University Library hosts a European Documentation Centre (EDC) of the European Union since 1963, and a United Nations Depository Library since 1956. The Documentation Center UN-EU is thus part of the European Union information network and the worldwide system of United Nations Depository Libraries. EDC and the UN Depository Library support research, teaching, and study of European integration and on topics of the international community and international politics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Furthermore, this contribute to making the fields of activity and institutions of the United Nations and the European Union more widely known to the general public.