Official names of Chambers:
Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan /
House of Representatives (2)
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
House of Representatives
Congressional Library
National Government Center
Diliman
Quezon City
Tel.: *(63)(2)9315966
Fax: *(63)(2)9315566
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1987
Person in charge: Ms Maria Fe S.
Abeleda-Robles
Position or official title:
Director
Number of library staff: 35
Number of professional librarians:
5
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 6
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 19
Number of other staff: 5
Size of collection: 40,726
Number of annual accessions:
1,566
Annual acquisitions budget: 3,000,000
Pesos (~ US$ 125.000)
Number of current periodicals:
167
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of current newspapers:
22
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(11)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by Publications and Editorial Division
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: Yes
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; Government officials;
scholars
Number of reading rooms: 2 (68)
Number of loans per year:
30.000
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
Yes
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Reference and Research Bureau
Depository library: United Nations
(partial depository)
Any other information: The
Congressional Library is comprised of Legislative Library and the
Legislative Archives; each division is headed by a Chief
Legislative Staff Officer
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
Congressional Library
bulletin
Quarterly
Compendium of Philippine
laws. - 2 vols., 1989
Legislative Archives' Holdings Description and
Arrangement, 1998
Legislative Archives' Inventory of Documents of
Constitutional Bodies, 1998
Legislative Library Inventory Series
Roster of Philippine
legislators : 1907 to 1987
5. Publications concerning the
library:
Rules of the House of
Representatives
6. Parliamentary documents
* Record of the House of
Representatives
-* Journal of
the House of Representatives
-* History of bills of resolutions / House of
Representatives
* Rules of the House of
Representatives
-* Acts and
resolutions
(updated in December 1998)
