Official name of the country:
Costa Rica
Official language: Spanish
Official name of Parliament:
Asamblea Legislativa de Costa
Rica
(Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica)
Unicameral
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
2. Address
Biblioteca Monseñor Víctor Manuel Sanabria
Martínez
Apdo. 75-1013
San José
Tel.: *(506) 223 1305
Fax: *(506) 233 1656
Telex: 2733 Asaleg CR
E-mail:
jvolio@congreso.aleg.go.cr
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1953
Person in charge: Ms. Julieta Volio
Guevara
Position or official title:
Directora
Number of library staff: 23
Number of professional librarians:
8
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 3
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 8
Number of other staff: 4 (ujieres y
oficinista)
Size of collection: 33.500
Number of annual accessions:
1.200
Annual acquisitions budget: 3.500.000
colones (~ US$ 13.453,77)
Number of current periodicals:
600
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 150 (600)
Press cuttings: Yes, by the library
(3)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
No
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Thesaurus and classification
system.
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
Yes
Clientele: Legislators and staff,
employees for loans outside the library, general public for
consulting at the library.
Number of reading rooms: 2 (36)
Number of loans per year:
20.000
Reference services: 7.200
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
Yes
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
library
Other special services: Selective
Disemination of Information, Statistical Information Services
Right to deposit: Yes, everything
that's published in the country
Depository library: Naciones Unidas,
OIT
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
Leyes, decretos :
índice mensual de la legislación costarricense
Colección de leyes,
decretos, reglamentos : índice numérica,
temático y onomástico
Revista
parlamentaria
Parliamentary review
Lista de nuevas
adquisiciones
5. Publications concerning the Library
Volio Guevara, Julieta:
Los servicios bibliotecarios y de
información de la Asamblea Legislativa // In: Memoria
del Primer Encuentro Iberoamericano de Bibliotecas Parlamentarias,
México, 20 - 23 de octubre de 1993. - México, 1994. -
p. 168 - 174
Guia de servicios de la
Biblioteca
6. Parliamentary documents
* Boletín
legislativo
-Actas del
plenario
- Actas de las
sesiones
- Reglamento de
orden, dirección y disciplina de la Asamblea
(updated in August 1998)
