Official name of the country:
Medinat Israel
(The State of Israel)
Official languages: Hebrew,
Arabic
Official name of Parliament:
Haknesset (The Knesset)
- unicameral -
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Sifriat Haknesset (Library of the Knesset)
Hakiria
91999 Jerusalem
Tel.: *(972)(2) 6753245
Fax: *(972)(2) 662733
E-mail:
sifria2@netvision.net.il
Internet-Homepage:
http://www.knesset.gov.il
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1950
Person in charge: Ms Neomi
KIMHI
Position or official title: Menahelet
Sifriat Haknesset
Number of library staff: 18
Number of professional librarians:
5
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 5
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 5
Number of other staff: 3 (Web Master,
Graphical Designer, HTML Writer
Size of collection: 95.000
Number of annual accessions:
500
Annual acquisitions budget: 120.000
NIS (~ US$ 30.000)
Number of current periodicals:
500
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the University Library of Haifa
Number of current newspapers:
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(15)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Classification system
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
Yes
Clientele: Members of parliament,
Parliamentary staff, Personal staff, Senior civil servants,
Journalists accredited to the Knesset, Political Parties staff in
the Knesset
Number of reading rooms: 1 (70)
Number of loans per year: 4.000
Reference services: 20.000
Current bibliographies: 4
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
4
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Library
Other special services: Knesset Web
Site Editorial Board
Right to deposit: Yes
Depository library: Israeli
Publishers; Parliaments and international organizations
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
Dapei
meida
Information Pages
Leket avodot
rikus meida
Selection of research papers
Biographical dictionary of the Members of
Knesset : 1949 - 1990
In Hebrew
5. Publications concerning the Library
Kimhi,
Neomi: The Knesset and its
Library // In: Parliamentary libraries in the Eastern
Mediterranean- Black Sea Crescent : papers / 11th International
Conference of Parliamentary Libraries, Ankara, 17 - 18 August
1995
6. Parliamentary documents
Divrei
Haknesset
Knesset record. - In Hebrew
Knesset rules of procedure
Who's who in the Knesset
(updated in June 1998)
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