Official name of the country:
Ceská republika
(Czech Republic)
Official language: Czech
Official name of Parliament:
Parlament Ceské
republiky
(Parliament of the Czech Republic)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
-Bicameral -
Official names of Chambers:
Senát (1)
(Senate)
Poslanecká snemovna (2)
(Chamber of Deputies)
Member of the ASGP
The Library serves both chambers of the Parliament
2. Address
Parlament Ceské republiky
Parlamentní knihovna
Snemovní 4
118 26 Praha 1 - Malá Strana
Tel.: *(420)(2)539411; 24592349
Fax: *(420)(2)539406
E-mail:
sosna@psp.cz
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1857
Person in charge: Dr. Karel
SOSNA
Position or official title:
Øeditel Parlamentní knihovny
Number of library staff: 14
Number of professional librarians:
4
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 2
Number of other staff: 8 (information
specialists)
Size of collection: 200.000
Number of annual accessions:
1.500
Annual acquisitions budget: 2.500.000
Kc (~ US$ 85.000)
Number of current periodicals:
300
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by National Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 80
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 17.000
Number of current newspapers:
40
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Press
Dept. (25)
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: Thesaurus
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
Yes
Clientele: Members, Senators and
their personal staff, parliamentary staff, authorized persons who
require works held only by the Library
Number of reading rooms: 3 (25)
Number of loans per year: 5.500
Reference services: 14.800
Current bibliographies: 3
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
20
External database searches: 50
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Parliamentary Institute of the Office of the Chamber of
Deputies
Right to deposit: No, but the
Parliamentary Library has to be notified of all new
publications
Depository library: United
Nations
Other special collections of the
Library: Special collection of EU law
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
Informacní
listy Parlamentní knihovny
Information sheets
of the Parliamentary Library
* Prehled
zákonodárné cinnosti Parlamentu Ceské
republiky
Survey of legislative activities of the
Parliament of the Czech Republic
Novinky
Parlamentní knihovny
List of acquisitions
Current
contents
Správní právo
; ústavní
právo
Administrative law ; constitutional law
Zahranicní politika ;
mezinárodní
vztahy
Foreign policy ; international relations
Vojenství ; bezpecnost
Military and security policy
Ekonomika ; finance
Economics ; finance
Veda ; kultura ; skolství a mládez ; televychova
Science ; culture ; schools and education ; sports
Lidská práva ;
mensiny
Human rights ; minorities
Sociální a zdravotní
politika
Social and health policy
Zivotní
prostredí
Environment
5. Publications concerning the Library
Parliamentarism
in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland : past and present /
Karel Sosna, Endre Száva-Kováts, Andrzej Gwizdz //
In: Soviet and East European parliamentary libraries at the dawn of
the post-communist era. - Bonn, 1991. - p. 35 - 93
ISBN 3-89372-009-X
Sosna,
Karel: Knihovna
Federálního shromázdení. // In:
Informatika
I' 91. - 33 (1991),11, s. 308 - 310
Library of the Federal Assembly
Sosna,
Karel: Nekolik poznámek k
transformaci byvalé knihovny Federálního
shromázdení // In: Informatika I' 94. - 36
(1994),3,
s. 73 - 74
Some remarks to the transformation of the former Library of the
Federal Assembly
Sosna,
Karel: Zdenek Václav Tobolka
a knihovna Národního shromázdení
predválecné Ceskoslovenské republiky //
In: Informatika
I' 94. - 36 (1994),7/8, s. 198 - 202
Zdenek Václav Tobolka and the Library of the National
Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic before the Second World
War
Sosna,
Karel: Transformation of the
Czechoslovak Parliamentary Library // In: INSPEL. - 29
(1995),2, p. 89 - 91
The parliamentary
library
Information folder
Samek, Tomas: The Eurovoc Project in the Czech Parliamentary Library//In: Jirankova, J.(Ed): Seminar EUROVOC '95: Praha, 27.-28.6.1995:proceedings of the Seminar for EUROVOC Thesaurus Users from Central and Eastern European Parliamentary Libraries and Information Institutions,- Praha: Office of the Chamber of Deputies, 1995.- s. 81-85
Sosna, Karel: Bude Parlamentni knihovna Ceske republiky otevrena 24 hodin denne? K soucasnemu stavu elektronizace informacnich sluzeb pro poslance a senatory Parlamentu CR//In: Infocus.-2(1996), 11/12, s.210-212
Sosna, Karel: New Developments in Library Services and Technology: Modernization of Information Services of the Parliamentary Library of the Czech Republic//In: Booklet 1: Division of General Research Libraries: 63rd IFLA General Conference: August 31-September 5, 1997. Copenhagen:IFLA, 1997, p.18-23
Sosna, Karel: Parlamentni knihovna Ceske republiky: Elektronizace informacnich sluzeb//In: Parlamentni zpravodaj.-4 (1998), 14/15, s.346-349
Vrbikova, Hana: Projekt Elektronicke knihovny v Ceskem Parlamentu//In: Ikarus.-2(1998), 72nd election period.-List of Members, parliamentary groups, etc.
3. volebni obdobi.-1998
3rd election period.-List of Members, parliamentary groups, etc.
Senat
*Parlament Ceske republiky, Senat
Parliament of the Czech Republic, Senat
Prozatimni jednaci rad Senatu.-1998.-216 s.
Temporary standing orders
6. Parliamentary documents
Parlament
* Tisky. -
1918 -
Printed papers and reports
Tesnopisecké zprávy ... - 1918
-
Verbatim report
Poslanecká snemovna
* Parlament
Ceské republiky, Poslanecká snemovna.
Parliament of the Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies
1. volební období. -
1994
1st election period. - List of Members, parliamentary groups,
etc.
Jednací
rád Poslanecké snemovny. - 1995. - 128
s.
Standing orders
(updated in February 1999)