Official name of the country:
Burkina Faso
Official language:
Français
Official name of Parliament:
(According to the 1991 Constitution there is to be a bicameral
legislature
consisting of a consultative Chamber of Representatives and an
Assembly of
People's Deputies, but the former had not been established by
February 1995)
Official names of Chambers:
Chambre des Représentants
(1)
(Chamber of Representatives)
Assemblée des Députés
du Peuple (2)
(Assembly of People's Deputies)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Assemblée des Députés du Peuple
Direction de la Documentation
01 B.P. 6482
Ouagadougou 01
Tel.: *(226)314449
Fax: *(226)314590
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation:: 1961
Person in charge: M. L. Constant
Ouedraogo
Position or official title: Directeur
de la Documentation
Number of library staff: 4
Number of professional librarians:
3
Number of other staff: 1
(archiviste)
Size of collection: 700
Number of annual accessions:
100
Annual acquisitions budget: 6.000.000
F CFA (~ US$ 13.000)
Number of current periodicals:
50
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Oui, par la bibliothèque
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 8
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 60
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Non
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: Oui
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Système de
classification
Automation of cataloguing: Oui
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
Non
Clientele: Membres, personnel
administratif du parlement; chercheurs, étudiants
Number of reading rooms: 1 (15)
Number of loans per year: 750
Reference services: 500
Current bibliographies: Oui
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
4
External database searches: Non
Analysis and research: Oui, par la
bibliothèque
Right to deposit: Non
IFLA membership: Non
4. Publications published by the Library
Bulletin
signalétique de la documentation
Revue des
sommaires
Ouvrages
disponibles
Dossiers documentaires sur thèmes
d'actualité
6. Parliamentary documents
NO BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA SUPPLIED
(updated in February 1995)
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