Official name of the country:
Republic of Malawi
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Parliament
-Bicameral -
Official names of Chambers:
Senate (1)
(The Senate is provided for by the 1994 Constitution, but will
not
be established before 1999)
National Assembly (2)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
National Assembly
Malawi Parliament Library
Parliament Building
P.O. Box 80
Zomba
Tel.: *(265)522488 ext 122
Fax: *(265)523290
Telex: 44653 MAL PARL
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1958
Person in charge: Mr Bexter Billiat
LIYAWO
Position or official title: Senior
Assistant Librarian
Number of library staff: 6
Number of professional librarians:
2
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 2
Size of collection: 8.550
Number of annual accessions: 21
Annual acquisitions budget: 21.000 K
(~ US$ 1.500)
Number of current periodicals:
20
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 10
Number of current newspapers: 7
Press cuttings: Yes, by the
Library
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; Government officials, courts; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 1 (30)
Number of loans per year: 2.200
Reference services: 200
Current bibliographies: 2
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Library
Other special collections of the
Library: Parliamentary documents
IFLA membership: No
4. Publications published by the Library
Liyawo, Bexter
Billiat: Bibliography of materials found in the Malawi
Parliament
6. Parliamentary documents
* Hansard
* Journal of the Parliament
of Malawi
* Votes and
proceedings
* Public Accounts Committee
report
* Parliament standing
orders
* Report of Select
Committee
* Report of Electoral
Commission
* Public Appointment
Committee report
* Legal Affairs Committee
report
* Committee on Parliamentary
Procedures report
* Defence and Security
Committee report
* Parliamentary Coanditions
of Service Committee report
* Constitutional Committee
report
(updated in March 1995)
