Official name of the country:
Kongeriket Norge
(Kingdom of Norway)
Official language: Norwegian
Official name of Parliament:
Stortinget
(Parliament)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
Note: While unicameral, the Storting splits into two bodies, the Lagting (41 Members) and the Odelsting (124 Members), when handling legislation
2. Address
Stortinget
Stortingsbiblioteket
(Library of the Storting)
Karl Johansgt. 22
0026 Oslo 1
Tel.: *(47) 23 31 36 90
Fax: *(47) 23 31 38 59
E-Mail:
gro.sandgrind@stortinget.no
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1871
Person in charge: Ms Gro
SANDGRIND
Position or official title:
Stortingsbibliotekar
Number of library staff: 13
Number of professional librarians:
9
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 4
Size of collection: 180.000
Number of annual accessions:
3.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 2.500.000
nkr (~ US$ 280.000)
Number of current periodicals:
550
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 200
Number of current newspapers:
160
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(12)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: by
the archive
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?:
No
Clientele: Members and staff in
Parliament, former Members, government officials, scholars
Number of reading rooms: 1
Number of seats: 6
Number of loans per year: 1.000
Reference services: 1.300
Current bibliographies: 1
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
Yes
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: by the
research section
Other special services: Mediatek that
makes recordings of Norwegian radio- and television programmes
available for Members and their staff for the last 2 months.
Other special collections of the
Library: Political brochures and election programmes from
1900 to date; clippings of biographical articles on MPs from 1950
to date
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
Printed:
Nytt fra
Stortingsbiblioteket 10 nos. p.a. - Accession list
Presseklipp fra
Stortingsbiblioteket Daily
Ârsberetning- Annual report
Stortingsbiblioteket Brochure on the
library
5. Publications concerning the Library
The Library of
the Norwegian Parliament // In: The parliamentary libraries
of the Nordic countries. - Stockholm, 2001. - p. 90 - 113
6. Parliamentary documents
Stortingsforhandlinger D. 1 - 9
Proceedings of the Storting. - Published jointly by the Government
and the Storting. - Has to a large degree had the same structure
since 1888. - It is published in 9 parts every year, each part
consisting of 1 - 5 volumes
Part 1. The Speech from the Throne, the State of the Realm Message,
Proposition No. 1 to the Storting (the Fiscal Budget) and
supplementary propositions
Part 2. Other Propositions to the Storting
Part 3. Reports to the Storting
Part 4. Propositions to the Odelsting and Reports to the
Odelsting
Part 5. Documents filed with the Storting and its chambers,
including extracts of the Norwegian State Accounts (the annotations
of the Office of the Auditor General), the annual reports from the
Ombudsman institutions, private bills introduced into the Storting,
etc.
Part 6. Recommendations to the Storting and to the Odelsting,
Odelsting Resolutions and Lagting Resolutions
Part 7. Stortingstidende
Official report of the proceedings of the Storting in joint
session
Part 8. Stortingstidende
Official report of the proceedings of the Odelsting and the Lagting
together with all of the legislative acts passed during the
session
Part 9. List of business submitted to the Storting, index of
business, speakers and speeches
Other publications:
Stortinget i navn
og tall. - Oslo : Universitetsforlaget / Biographies of
Members of the Storting. Published after every election
Stortingets
forretningsorden. / Rules of procedure.- New edition when
changes are made
Oestboe, Ivar
Buch. - Storting og regjering. Oslo 2001 / Handbook on the
Storting and its activities
Stortinget :
Norges nasjonalforsamling / Stortinget : The Norwegian
Parliament. - A brochure on the Parliament
See also information on
www.stortinget.no
(updated in September 2003)
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