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Official name of the country: Republic of Zimbabwe
Official language: English

Official name of Parliament: Parliament of Zimbabwe
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Member of the ASGP

2. Address
Parliament of Zimbabwe
Library of Parliament
P.O. Box CY 298
Causeway
Harare
Tel.: *(263)(4)729722 ext 2131
Fax: *(263)(4)795548
Telex: 24064 ZIMPAR ZW

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1923
Person in charge: Mr Nelson MASAWI
Position or official title: Librarian to Parliament
Number of library staff: 10
Number of professional librarians: 4
Number of secretarial and support staff: 6
Size of collection: 150.000
Number of annual accessions: 300
Annual acquisitions budget: 180.000 Z$ (~ US$ 21.000)
Number of current periodicals: 100
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently indexed for articles: 10
Number of current newspapers: 15
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library (15)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Yes, by the Library
Library in charge of the archival materials of the Parliament: Yes
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification system for subject indexing: Thesaurus
Automation of cataloguing: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary staff; Government officials; senior staff of parastatal bodies, army, police
Number of reading rooms: 5 (10)
Number of loans per year: 10.000
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies: No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Yes, by the Library
Right to deposit: No
Other special collections of the Library: Zimbabweana collection, national official publications and parliamentary documents, pre-independence materials
IFLA membership: Yes

4. Publications published by the Library
Annual report
Select list of current articles from newspapers and periodicals
Quarterly list of acquisitions
Notes for Members

5. Publications concerning the Library
The Library of Parliament : bye-laws 1976 and as amended 1978, 1982, 1984. - Harare : Govt. Printer, 1984
The Library of Parliament. - 2nd ed. - Harare : Govt. Printer, 1985
Gurure, Winford H.C.: Resource problems in parliamentary library service systems : with particular reference to Zimbabwe. - Pretoria : The State Library, 1983
Gurure, Winford H.C.: Research, information and documentation services for Members of Parliament // In: Zimbabwe librarian. - 17 (1985),1, p. 11 - 14

6. Parliamentary documents
Parliamentary debates : Hansard
Votes and proceedings
Order paper
Committee reports
Parliamentary bulletin

(updated in August 1995)

Quelle: http://www.bundestag.de/bic/bibliothek/library/zimba
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