Official name of the country:
Rzeczpospolita Polska (Republic of
Poland)
Official language: Polish
Official name of Parliament:
(There are two parliamentary bodies, the Sejm
and Senate,
for which there is no common designation, nor do they have a common
suprastructure, the only exception being the Sejm
Library which, though financed entirely by the Sejm, serves the
Sejm and the Senate on equal terms, whereas in the Senate the
Research
and Analysis Office provides a Quick Reference Unit)
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Official names of Chambers:
Senat
Rzeczypospolitej Polskie j (1)
(Senate)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Senat RP
Biuro Studiów i Analiz
Kancelarii Senatu
ul. Wiejska 6
00-902 Warszawa
Tel.: *(48)(22)6942059
Fax: *(48)(22)6942049
E-mail:
nawrocka@nw.senat.gov.pl;
michalow@nw.senat.gov.pl
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1991
Person in charge: Mr Jacek
MICHALOWSKI
Position or official title:
Dyrektor
Number of library staff: 42
Number of professional librarians:
5
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 22
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 5
Number of other staff: 10 (reference
specialists (6), archivists (3), computer specialists (1))
Size of collection: 2.500
Number of annual accessions:
600
Annual acquisitions budget: 200.000
Zl (~ US$ 85.000)
Number of current periodicals:
260
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Research and Analysis Office
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 47
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 60.000
Number of current newspapers:
15
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Research
and Analysis Office (7)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Information Office of the Senate Chancellery
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
Reference services: 1.500
Current bibliographies: 7
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
1
External database searches: 170
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Research and Analysis Office
Other special collections of the
Library: European Union Reference Library
Any other information: All data refer
to the Research and Analysis Office as a whole
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
Sygnaly prasy
Polskiej
Weekly. - Review of the Polish press
Sygnaly prasy
zagranicznej
Biweekly. - Review of the foreign press
Zeszyty Biura Studiów
i Analiz
Irregular. - Papers of the Research and Analysis Office
Tematyczny spis
opracowan
Irregular. - Subject bibliographies
Spis zeszytów Biura
Studiów i Analiz
Irregular. - List of papers of the Research and Analysis Office
5. Publications concerning the Library
Overview of services and
functions of the Research and Analysis Office. - 1993
Chancellery of the Senate of
Poland : organization and functions. - 1993
6. Parliamentary documents
* Sprawozdanie
stenograficzne z [...] posiedzenia Senatu Rzeczypospolitej
Polskiej
Verbatim record of the sittings of
the Senate. - Contains a full review of everything that has been
said during the sitting of the Senate. - Printed under the
supervision of the President of the Senate, and official statement
of the proceedings of the Senate's debates. - Each issue contains a
report from one sitting. - The sittings are sequentially numbered
within each term of office
* Druki / Senat
Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
Printed Papers. - Contains bills introduced for the debates of the
Diet as a law-making initiative of the Senate, as well as
resolutions defining the position of the Senate in the matters
concerning the acts resolved by the Diet. - Sequentially numbered
within one term of office and published under supervision of the
Senate's President
Diariusz Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
Information
about the activities of the Senate, the Senators, and the agencies
of the Senate
(updated in December 1995)
