Official name of the country:
Papua New Guinea / Gau Hedinarai ai
Papua-
Matamata Guinea / Papua-Niugini
Official languages: English,
Hari-Motu, Pidgin
Official name of Parliament:
National Parliament of Papua New Guinea
/
Bese Taubadadia Hegogo
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
PNG National Parliament
Library
Parliament House
Waigani
Port Moresby, NCD
Tel.: *(675)277476/7
Fax: *(675)277480
Telex: NE 23325
E-Mail:
parllib@datec.com.pg
3.
Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1969
Person in charge: Mr Elesallah
MATATIER
Position or official title:
Parliamentary Librarian
Number of library staff: 6
Number of professional librarians:
2
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 4
Size of collection: 14.000
Number of annual accessions:
500
Annual acquisitions budget: 30.000
kina (~ US$ 39.000)
Number of current periodicals:
120
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Number of current newspapers: 7
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(4)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Bills and Papers Division
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Classification system
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Clientele: Members, parliamentarians'
personal staff, parliamentary staff; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 1 (20)
Number of loans per year: 600
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Research and Legal Sections
Other special services: Distribution
centre for all parliamentary documents
Right to deposit: No
Depository library: No
Other special collections of the
Library: Parliamentary matters received from other
countries
Any other information: The Library is
part of the Research and Information Division which also comprises
the Research Section (1 staff)
IFLA membership: No
4. Publications published by the Library
Acquisition
list
A quarterly listing of newly acquired books. - Arranged
alphabetically by subject. - Each entry contains a bibliographic
description
Members guide to the
services provided by the Library
Information
papers
Prepared for Members of Parliament by the Legal and Research
Sections
5. Publications concerning the Library
White, H.L.:
Report to the Speaker and Library
Committee of the House of Assembly on the immediate needs of
Members for library services. - 1965
Corfiled, Graeme:
Specialized services for the House of
Assembly / by Graeme Corfiled and John Ley // In: Australian
External Territories. - 12 (1972),2, p. 27 - 33
6. Parliamentary documents
Daily hansard
The official record of what is said in Parliament. - This edition
appears the morning after each day's session and is styled proof,
i.e. minor corrections may
subsequently be made. - Each daily issue is dated and numbered
according to the number of the sitting day. - It also has a
Contents list. - Because there is no index to the Hansard, the Library indexes the contents until
the Debates are published
* Minutes of
proceedings
Official record of the proceedings of the session. - Appears
generally the morning after each day's session. - Printed on blue
paper, each issue is dated and given a running number. - The annual
issues are then bound into one volume together with Indexes to the minutes of proceedings, general
motions, bills and papers presented during that year and term of
Parliament. - Each Index includes
the proceedings. - It also carries lists of Ministers, officers,
and committees for that particular year as well as record of
Members' roll and attendances for that term of Parliament
* Notice paper
The official paper used by the
Clerk of Parliament to list the business items which the Members
have introduced for discussion in Parliament and which have not
been disposed of by Parliament. - This appears daily and is
circulated a day ahead of the sessions, a type of an agenda for
each session. - The Notice paper
accompanies the Daily hansard. -
Printed on yellow paper, each issue is dated and given a running
number
* Question
paper
Contains notices of questions for written answers. - Those
appearing for the first time are prefixed with an asterisk. -
Issued on the first sitting day of each week, in addition to new
notifications, all notices of questions that remain unanswered. -
Printed on green paper, each issue is dated and given a running
number
* Parliamentary
debates
Hard-bound edition of the Hansard,
issued in several volumes per parliamentary session. - Each volume
contains a Table of Contents and the subject matter is printed on
the bottom of each page. - It carries a list of Members of
Parliament and the province they represent, as well as a listing of
Ministers and officers of Parliament. - Each volume is dated and
numbered according to the volume and series number, number of
session and number of the Parliament. - Each volume number changes
after each parliamentary term, which is five years
- Papers and reports
Covers all documents presented to Parliament. - The documents
include annual reports of Government bodies, committee reports,
commissions of inquiry, special study groups, conference reports,
overseas trips reports and other studies. - Each paper is published
individually under its own title and assigned a running number
according to its presentation in Parliament
Standing orders of the
National Parliament. - Waigani : National Parliament,
1988
Members of
Parliament : ... / published by PNG Office of
Information
(updated in December 1998)
