Official name of the country:
Republic of Ghana
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Parliament
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Parliament
Parliament Library and Information Service
Office of Parliament
Parliament House
Accra
Tel.: *(233)(21)664181/4 ext 2017
Fax: *(233)(21)664652
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1957
Person in charge: Mr Charles M.
BROWN
Position or official title:
Librarian
Number of library staff: 2
Number of professional librarians:
2
Size of collection: 1.600
Annual acquisitions budget:
22.500.000 Cedi (~ US$ 18.000)
Number of current periodicals:
20
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Number of current newspapers: 8
Press cuttings: Yes, by the
Library
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Official Report (Hansard) Dept.
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: Yes
Automation of cataloguing: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff; Government officials; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 1 (10)
Reference services: Yes
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
IFLA membership: No
4. Publications published by the Library
The parliamentary
library and information service bulletin
6. Parliamentary documents
* Parliamentary
debates : Hansard
Official report
Agenda
Bills and
motions
Questions and
answers
Order
paper
Votes and
proceedings
* Summaries of
sessions
Standing
orders
(updated in March 1996)
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