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Official name of the federated
state/autonomous territory: Nova
Scotia
Province
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Legislative Assembly
- Unicameral -
Address
Nova Scotia Legislative Library
Province House
P.O. Box 396
Halifax, N.S., B3J 2P8
Tel. (1)(902)4245932, telex 01922693 PREMIER HALIFAX
Fax (1)(902)4240574
E-mail: leglib@gov.ns.ca
Homepage: http://www.gov.ns.ca/legi
Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1862
Person in charge: Ms Margaret
Murphy,
Position or official title:
Legislative Librarian
Number of library staff: 6,
Number
of professional librarians: 3,
Number
of other staff in the Library: 3
Size of collection: 200.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 44.000
C$
Number of current periodicals:
600
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes
Press cuttings: Yes, by Hansard
Office and Clerks Office
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
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
Yes
Restricted to members of parliament:
No,
Who else may use library: library
privileges are extended to the Lieutenant-Governor, Members of the
Legislative Assembly, the judiciary, and the provincial civil
service. The public may use the library's facilities, but they may
not borrow library material
Right to deposit: Full depository
status for Provincial government documents, selective for Canadian
government documents
IFLA membership: No
Publications published by the
Library
Publications of the Province
of Nova Scotia monthly checklist
- Publications, Province of Nova Scotia : a
checklist compiled in the Legislative Library of documents received
during the calendar year ...
Publications concerning the
Library
The Nova Scotia Legislative
Library : a guide. - Halifax, 1989
Murphy, Margaret:
Nova Scotia = Nouvelle-Ecosse // In: Canada's parliamentary
libraries=Les bibliothèques parlementaires du Canada / The
Association of Parliamentary Librarians in Canada. - 1989
Parliamentary Papers
Debates and
proceedings. - Halifax : Queen's Printer
Journals and proceedings of
the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia. -
Halifax : Queen's Printer
(updated August 1998)
