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Official name of the country: República de Colombia
(Republic of Colombia)
Official language: Español

Official name of Parliament: Congreso de la República
(Congress of the Republic)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
-Bicameral -
Official names of Chambers: Senado de la República (1)
(Senate of the Republic)
Cámara de Representantes (2)
(House of Representatives)
Member of the ASGP
The Library serves both chambers of the Parliament

2. Address
Congreso de la República
Biblioteca
Calle 9 Núm. 8 - 91
Apdo. aéreo Núm. 11467
Santafé de Bogotá, D.C.
Tel.: *(57)(1)2846478,
Fax: *(57)(1)2829050; 2840467; 2845560
Telex: SENIN CO 45 582

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1980
Person in charge: Sr. D. Alvaro OROSCO
Number of library staff: 5
Number of professional librarians: 1
Number of research and subject analyst staff in the Library: 2
Number of secretarial and support staff: 2
Size of collection: 140.000
Number of annual accessions: 1.300
Annual acquisitions budget: 150.000.000 Col$ (~ US$ 170.000)
Number of current periodicals: 60
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: Sí, por las oficinas congresistas
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Sí, por la biblioteca
Library in charge of the archival materials of the Parliament: Sí
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification system for subject indexing: No
Automation of cataloguing: No
Clientele: Miembros, personal administrativo del parlamento; abierta al público
Number of reading rooms: 2 (32)
Number of loans per year: 1.200
Reference services: No
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies: No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Sí, por la unidad de Trabajo Legislativo
Right to deposit: Sí, para toda obra científica y literaria del país
IFLA membership: No

5. Publications concerning the Library
- Vivas Tafur, Diego: [La Biblioteca del Congreso de] Colombia // In: Memoria del Primer Encuentro Iberoamericano de Bibliotecas Parlamentarias, México, 20 - 23 de octubre de 1993. - México, 1994. - p. 163 - 167

6. Parliamentary documents
Congreso de la República
* Análes del Congreso
Gaceta del Congreso
Revista del Congreso
Reglamento del Congreso : constitución política de Colombia y otras normas referentes a la rama legislativa. - Santa Fe de Bogotá : Imprenta Nacional, 1992

(updated in March 1995)

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