Official name of the country:
Éire / Ireland
Official languages: Irish (Gaelic),
English
Official name of Parliament:
Tithe an Oireachtais / Houses of the
Oireachtas
-Bicameral -
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Official names of Chambers:
Seanad Éireann / Senate
(1)
Member of the ASGP
Dáil Éireann / House of
Representatives (2)
Member of the ASGP
The Library serves both chambers of the Parliament
2. Address
Oireachtas Library
Leinster House
Kildare Street
Dublin 2
Tel: *(353)(1) 618 3412
Fax: *(353)(1) 661 5583
E-Mail:
maura.corcoran@oireachtas.irlgov.ie
Homepage:
http://www.irlgov.ie/oireachtas
3.
Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1924
Person in charge: Ms Maura
Corcoran
Position or official title:
Librarian
Number of library staff: 10
Number of professional librarians:
5
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 4 Specificaton: 4 of the professional staff
undertake research in addition to other Library duties
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 5
Size of collection: 100.000
Number of annual accessions:
8.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 70.000
IR£ (~ US$ 115.000)
Number of current periodicals:
120
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Number of current newspapers:
70
Press cuttings: No
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Thesaurus
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
No
Clientele: Members, parliamentarians'
personal staff, parliamentary staff
Number of reading rooms: 1 (46)
Number of loans per year: 1.250
Reference services: Yes
Other special services: Access to the
Internet
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Library
Depository library: United Nations,
European Union
Other special collections of the
Library: British parliamentary papers from 1800 on, records
of the pre-Union Irish Parliament, 17th, 18th, and 19th century
pamphlets on Irish political and current affairs
Any other information: : The Public
Relations Office deals, inter alia, with general information
enquiries from the media, interest groups, schools and members of
the public. The Office is also responsible for a number of
publications including Information Leaflets (12 leaflets on aspects
of parliament and government) and a more detailed book on the
parliament.
IFLA membership: No
4. Publications published by the Library
Select list of
accessions
Monthly
6. Parliamentary documents
Oireachtas
Parliamentary
papers
Parliamentary papers are papers which have been laid before either
House of the Oireachtas. - Include annual reports of Government
Departments and semi-State bodies, reports from Commissions,
reports from Parliamentary Committees, statutory instruments,
etc. - They are indexed and bound
in annual sets
Seanad
Parliamentary
debates
Unrevised daily reports of Parliamentary debates of the Seanad
Éireann. - Subsequently the revised reports, complete with
index, are issued in the form of bound volumes
- Journals
Journals of proceedings of the Seanad Éireann contain daily
records of the business transacted by the Seanad compiled from the
minutes made by the clerks. - Published on a daily basis and
subsequently indexed and published annually in bound form
Standing orders /
Seanad Éireann
Dáil
Parliamentary
debates
Unrevised daily reports of Parliamentary debates of the Dáil
Éireann. -
Subsequently the revised reports, complete with index, are issued
in the form of bound volumes
- Journals
Journals of proceedings of the Dáil Éireann contain
daily records of the business transacted by the Dáil
compiled from the minutes made by the clerks. - Published on a
daily basis and subsequently indexed and published annually in
bound form
Standing orders /
Dáil Éireann
(updated in December 1998)
