Official name of the country:
Éire / Ireland
Official languages: Irish (Gaelic),
English
Official name of Parliament:
Tithe an Oireachtais / Houses of the
Oireachtas
-Bicameral -
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Official names of Chambers:
Seanad Éireann / Senate
(1)
Member of the ASGP
Dáil Éireann / House of
Representatives (2)
Member of the ASGP
The Library serves both chambers of the Parliament
2. Address
Oireachtas Library
Leinster House
Kildare Street
Dublin 2
Tel: *(353)(1) 618 3412
Fax: *(353)(1) 661 5583
E-Mail: 
maura.corcoran@oireachtas.irlgov.ie
Homepage: 
http://www.irlgov.ie/oireachtas
3.
Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1924
Person in charge: Ms Maura
Corcoran
Position or official title:
Librarian
Number of library staff: 10
Number of professional librarians:
5
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 4 Specificaton: 4 of the professional staff
undertake research in addition to other Library duties
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 5
Size of collection: 100.000
Number of annual accessions:
8.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 70.000
IR£ (~ US$ 115.000)
Number of current periodicals:
120
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Number of current newspapers:
70
Press cuttings: No
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?:
No
Clientele: Members, parliamentarians'
personal staff, parliamentary staff
Number of reading rooms: 1 (46)
Number of loans per year: 1.250
Reference services: Yes
Other special services: Access to the
Internet
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Library
Depository library: United Nations,
European Union
Other special collections of the
Library: British parliamentary papers from 1800 on, records
of the pre-Union Irish Parliament, 17th, 18th, and 19th century
pamphlets on Irish political and current affairs
Any other information: : The Public
Relations Office deals, inter alia, with general information
enquiries from the media, interest groups, schools and members of
the public. The Office is also responsible for a number of
publications including Information Leaflets (12 leaflets on aspects
of parliament and government) and a more detailed book on the
parliament.
IFLA membership: No
4. Publications published by the Library
 Select list of
accessions
 Select list of
accessions
Monthly
6. Parliamentary documents
Oireachtas
 Parliamentary
papers
 Parliamentary
papers
Parliamentary papers are papers which have been laid before either
House of the Oireachtas. - Include annual reports of Government
Departments and semi-State bodies, reports from Commissions,
reports from Parliamentary Committees, statutory instruments,
etc. - They are indexed and bound
in annual sets
Seanad
 Parliamentary
debates
 Parliamentary
debates
Unrevised daily reports of Parliamentary debates of the Seanad
Éireann. - Subsequently the revised reports, complete with
index, are issued in the form of bound volumes
- Journals
Journals of proceedings of the Seanad Éireann contain daily
records of the business transacted by the Seanad compiled from the
minutes made by the clerks. - Published on a daily basis and
subsequently indexed and published annually in bound form
 Standing
orders / Seanad Éireann
 Standing
orders / Seanad Éireann
Dáil
 Parliamentary
debates
 Parliamentary
debates
Unrevised daily reports of Parliamentary debates of the Dáil
Éireann. -
Subsequently the revised reports, complete with index, are issued
in the form of bound volumes
- Journals
Journals of proceedings of the Dáil Éireann contain
daily records of the business transacted by the Dáil
compiled from the minutes made by the clerks. - Published on a
daily basis and subsequently indexed and published annually in
bound form
 Standing orders
/ Dáil Éireann
 Standing orders
/ Dáil Éireann
(updated in December 1998)

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