Official name of the country:
Republic of Mauritius
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament: National Assembly
2. Address
National Assembly
National Assembly Library
Government House
Port Louis
Tel.: *(230)2011340
Fax: *(230)2128364
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1981
Person in charge: Ms Geeta
ATMAROW
Position or official title: Senior
Librarian
Number of library staff: 3
Number of professional librarians:
1
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 2
Size of collection: 10.000
Number of annual accessions:
200
Annual acquisitions budget: 100.000
MR (~ US$ 5.750)
Number of current periodicals:
25
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library (on a trial basis)
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 6
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 100
Number of current newspapers:
20
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(5)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Reporting staff
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: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff; civil servants; scholars; general public (the latter upon
authorisation by the Speaker or, in his absence, by the
Clerk)
Number of reading rooms: 1 (25)
Number of loans per year: 200
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
Right to deposit: No, the Archives
Department is the Legal Deposit Library
Other special collections of the
Library: Publications of all Ministries, public and
parastatal bodies, as these documents are laid on the table of the
National Assembly
IFLA membership: No
6. Parliamentary documents
Parliamentary
business
Daily Order Paper which is an official list of business to be taken
before the House
Parliamentary
debates
Commonly known as Hansard. - Typed by the reporters on every
sitting of the House. - Each sitting edition issued as unrevised. -
The unofficial verbatim copy of the
Hansard contains the full text of each & every business before
the House, i.e. Mr Speaker's
announcements, a list of all papers laid on the table of the
National Assembly, speeches made in Parliament, questions and
answers, Ministers' statements, all interventions on public bills,
motions, etc., as well as
adjournment matters. - This unofficial copy of the Hansard becomes
official only when it would have been printed under the authority
of the Speaker. - However, the unedited Hansard is available for
consultation in the Library. - Each issue is dated, numbered as per
respective term of the National Assembly, the session and sitting.
- Hard-bound editions are issued at the end of the year. - Each
volume contains indices which gather alphabetically all subjects
dealt with, as well as a coverage of each Member's interventions in
Parliament. - All Parliamentary questions come under a separate
entry, as well as all papers laid on the table
* Minutes of
proceedings
The Minutes of proceedings is a
concise record of all business transacted by the House. - It is
issued at each sitting and a final edition is bound and published
at the end of the year. - This edition contains an index comprising
different entries for all legislative procedures, announcements,
personal explanations, enactments, statements, motions as well as
all papers presented in the House during a year. - The daily issues
are dated and detailed as above
* Standing orders and rules
of the Legislative Assembly : as in force to date. -
1995
* Rules made by Mr Speaker
in accordance with Standing Order 114 in regard to Select
Committees. - 1986. - 16 p.
Parliamentary
papers
Parliamentary papers are bound
annually. - Papers may be annual reports of Government as well as
parastatal bodies, reports of commissions of enquiry and committees
or study reports such as White
papers, bulletins, surveys, statistics, etc.
Public Accounts Committee
There may be several special reports concerning investigation and
scrutiny of public finance as well as an annual report of the
Committee's work upon the examination of the current Director of
Audit's report
Select committees
Select committees are conducted, though not annually, on any topic
of major importance, upon which a report will be published
Parliamentary bills and
acts
Newly numbered series for each year
(updated in October 1995)
