Official name of the country:
Kongeriget Danmark
(Kingdom of Denmark)
Official language: Danish
Official name of Parliament:*
Folketinget
(Parliament)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Folketinget
Bibliotek, Arkiv
og Oplysningstjeneste
Christiansborg
1240 København K
Tel.: *(45)33373434
Fax: *(45)33147060
Telex: 21509 FLKTNG DK
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1850
Person in charge: Ms Elise Holt
Position or official title: Head of
Information and Documentation Department
Number of library staff: 16
Number of professional librarians:
7
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 2
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 3
Number of other staff: 4 (press
cutting staff, bookbinder)
Size of collection: 225.000
Number of annual accessions:
4.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 900.000
dkr (~ US$ 160.000)
Number of current periodicals:
3.000
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 50
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 200
Number of current newspapers:
15
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(20)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by Editorial Section
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: Yes
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
Clientele: Members, previous Members,
parliamentarians' personal staff, parliamentary staff; Government
officials; press; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 1 (24)
Number of loans per year: 4.000
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
Yes
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Library
Right to deposit: Danish Government
publications
Depository library: No
Other special collections of the
Library: Together with the National libraries, research
libraries and parliamentary libraries in the Nordic countries there
is the obligation of collecting parliamentary papers and laws from
countries outside the Nordic countries
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
Nyt fra Folketingets
Bibliotek
Fortnightly. - News from the parliamentary library. - List of books
selected from the latest acquisitions
Særnummer
Irregular. - Special issue. - List of books, magazine articles,
newspaper articles, etc. on a
particular subject
Folketinget efter valget den
... : biografier ; partiprogrammer ; valgstatistik ... -
1990 -
The Folketing after the election of ... : biographies ; party
programmes ; election statistics
Quistorff, Annelise:
Folketingets kontrol med regeringen i
EF-beslutningsprocessen. - KÝbenhavn : Folketingets
Bibliotek, 1991. - 23 s.
Parliamentary control of the government in the EEC decision making
process. - English summary
5. Publications concerning the Library
The Library and Information
Service of the Danish Parliament // In: The parliamentary
libraries of the Nordic countries. - Stockholm, 1989. - p. 9 -
16
Rasmussen, Hanne:
Biblioteket og politikerne. -
København : Folketingets Bibliotek, 1990. - 16 s.
The parliamentary library and the politicians
Rasmussen, Hanne:
Rigsdagens, Rigsrådets og
Folketingets Arkiv // In: ARKIV : Tidsskrift for
Arkivforskning. - 12 (1989),3, s. 149 - 155
The Archives of the Danish Parliament since 1849
6. Parliamentary documents
* Folketingstidende
Official report of parliamentary proceedings. - 1850 - 1953:
Rigsdagstidende. - Compiles all
major documents concerning the work of the Folketing. - Consists of
the following parts:
Forhandlinger
Verbatim parliamentary record
Tillæg A
Appendix A. - Bills and motions to resolution
Tillæg B
Appendix B. - Committee reports
Tillæg C
Appendix C. - Bills and motions to resolution passed by
Parliament
Tillæg D
Appendix D. - The finance bill with annotations and committee
reports
The Folketingstidende covers the
parliamentary year which goes from the first Tuesday in October to
the first Tuesday in October the next year. - In election years the
publication is published twice, each edition covering part of the
parliamentary year and each comprising the above mentioned
sections. - The edition covering the period before the election is
labelled 1. samling, the one covering the period after the election
is labelled 2. samling.
* Folketingstidende :
årbog & registre
Indexes to Folketingstidende and
parliamentary yearbook. - Replaces the previous index with the
title Folketigstidende : oversight,
covering the period 1850 - 1985/86 as well as the parliamentary
yearbook Folketingsårbog,
covering the period 1890 - 1985/86. - Contains references of the
documentation of the legislation work each year to the relevant
parts in Folketingstidende,
summaries of bills, motions to resolutions, and interpellations,
statistical information, a list of speakers and an alphabetical
index
Forretningsorden for
Folketinget. - København, 1994. - 74 s.
English edition: Standing orders of the
Folketing. - Copenhagen, 1994. - 67 p.
(updated in December 1994)
