Official name of the country:
Ribaberikin Kiribati / Republic of
Kiribati
Official languages: I-Kiribati,
English
Official name of Parliament: Maneaba ni Maungatabu / House of Assembly
2. Address
Maneaba ni Maungatabu
Tabo n Tangoboki
P.O. Box 52
Bairiki
Tarawa
Tel.: *(686)21053; 21084 ext 17
Fax: *(686)21278
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1986
Person in charge: Ms Kamatara
BUNAUA
Position or official title: Clerical
Librarian
Number of library staff: 1
Size of collection: 400
Number of annual accessions: 40
Annual acquisitions budget: 1.000 A$
(~ US$ 700)
Number of current periodicals:
15
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Number of current newspapers: 3
Press cuttings: No
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Library
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: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff
Number of reading rooms: 1 (15)
Number of loans per year: 40
Reference services: 50
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
IFLA membership: No
5. Publications concerning the Library
Library Committee report.
- 1986
6. Parliamentary documents
Parliamentary
debates
Produced after every sitting day. - Contains text of all speeches
of that day
Parliamentary official
report
Bound edition volume of the proceedings of all sittings in a
meeting of Parliament. - Parliament holds meetings of two to three
weeks duration excluding weekends
* Notice papers
* Bills and
acts
Order paper
-
Parliamentary committees
report
Daily minutes
Statements
Parliamentary
journal
* Director of Audit reports on Government accounts,
Government Statutory Corporation and owned companies
(updated in February 1996)
