Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Biblioteka Sejmowa
ul. Wiejska 4/6
00-902 Warszawa
Tel.: *(48)(22)6288545; 6942429
Fax: *(48)(22)6941778
Telex: 812544 SEJM PL
E-Mail:
parlib@bs.sejm.gov.pl
Homepage:
http://bib.sejm.gov.pl
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1919
Person in charge: Mr Dr.Wojciech
KULISIEWICZ
Position or official title:
Dyrektor
Number of library staff: 72
Number of professional librarians:
36
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 20
Number of other staff: 16 (top
management (3), computer specialists (2), press information
specialists (3), archivists and museum staff (8))
Size of collection: 435.750
Number of annual accessions:
7.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 588.000
Zl (~ US$ 163.000)
Number of current periodicals:
790
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 35
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 12.000
Number of current newspapers:
80
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(90)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Not
by the library, by: Computer Centre of the Sejm Chancellery
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: Yes
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Thesaurus and classification
system
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
Yes
Clientele: Members, parliamentarians'
personal staff, parliamentary staff; Government officials;
journalists; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 2 (44)
Number of loans per year:
160.000
Reference services: 11.500
Current bibliographies: 2
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: 650
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Bureau of Research
Other special services: Media
Resource Centre (video recordings of the Sejm sittings as well as
chosen Polish TV programmes of political, social and economic
character)
Right to deposit: all Sejm and Senate
publications; Polish official publications
Depository library: UN with
specialized organizations, namely UNIDO, ILO, WHO, FAO, IAEA, IMF,
UNCTAD, UNEP; Council of Europe
Other special collections of the
Library: Foreign parliamentary papers and official
publications, Museum Department
Other special collections: Foreign
parliamentary papers and official publications; Museum
Division; Social History Collectionadd
Any other information: On-line access
to data bases of Chancellery, e.g.
central register of legislative acts in force
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
Sejm i prawo w starych
drukach Biblioteki Sejmowej : katalog. - Warszawa :
Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, 1993
Catalogue of the Sejm Library's collection of old books
Ksiazki zagraniczne z
zakresu prawa w Bibliotece Sejmoweij : nabytki z lat 1990 -
1993. - Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, 1994
Cumulated list of foreign accessions in law from 1990 - 1993
Bibliografia publikacji
Sejmu, Senatu [...]
Quarterly. - Bibliography of publications of the Sejm, the Senate
[...]. -
Published in Przeglad Sejmowy
Wykaz wazniejszych
nabytków
Quarterly. - Selected list of new accessions
Tygodniowy przeglad prasy i
audycji telewizyjnych
Weekly press review (based on press cuttings), as well as annotated
list of current Polish TV programmes with the MPs'
participation
5. Publications concerning the Library
Szymanowska, Zofia:
Dzialalnosc Biblioteki Sejmowej w latach
1919 - 1939=The Diet Library
: 1919 - 1939 // In: Rocznik biblioteki narodowej. - 16 (1980), s.
241 - 250
With English summary
Mezynski, Andrzej:
Okupacyjne dzieje ksiegozbioru Biblioteki
Sejmowej // In: Przeglad Sejmowy. - (1994),4, s. 188 -
200
The occupation history of the book collection of the Sejm
Library
Gwizdz, Andrzej: The
"Sejm Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej" and its Library // In:
Parlament und Bibliothek. - München : Saur, 1986. - p. 225 -
232
ISBN 3-598-10634-3
Parliamentarism in
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland : past and present /
Karel Sosna, Endre Száva-Kováts, Andrzej Gwizdz //
In: Soviet and East European parliamentary libraries at the dawn of
the post-communist era. - Bonn, 1991. - p. 35 - 43
ISBN 3-89372-009-X
Sejm Library : guide.
- Warszawa : Sejm Publishing Office, 1993
Also in Polish, French, and German
6. Parliamentary documents
Sprawozdanie stenograficzne
z [...] posiedzenia Sejmu
Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
Verbatim record of the sittings of
the Diet, including texts of interpellations and questions with
answers to them, results of voting, etc. - The record is edited by the Chancellery
of the Diet. - Cumulative subject and speakers indexes are
published irregularly as separate issues
* Druk / Sejm
Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
Printed papers covering texts of bills presented before the Diet,
reports of parliamentary committees pertaining to bills, texts of
reports and statements submitted to the Diet by the Government and
individual Ministers and other documents edited by the President of
the Diet and distributed among the Members of the Diet
* Diariusz
Sejmowy
Preliminary, unauthorized verbatim
report of the sittings and debates of the Diet. - Published the
following day. - Includes also texts of passed bills and
resolutions
Kronika Sejmowa /
Kancelaria Sejmu, Biuro Informacyjne
Weekly chronicle covering the most important events which took
place in the Diet, its committees, and the parliamentary clubs. -
Includes also a summary of the results of the Diet's sittings as
well as international chronicle in English. - Widely distributed to
mass media as a form of press release
Regulamin Sejmu
Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : ujednolicony tekst uchwaly z
dnia 30 lipca 1992 r. wedlug stanu prawnego na dzien 16 czerwca
1995 r. - Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, 1995
Standing orders of the Diet : uniform text of the resolution of the
Sejm of July 30, 1992, updated to June 16, 1995
Informacja o dzialalnosci
Sejmu : (19 wrzesnia 1993 r. - 30 czerwca 1995 r.) / Sejm
Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, 2. kadencja
Cumulative directory of the Diet activities (covering current term
of office), including statistical data, lists of passed and
rejected bills, resolutions, etc.,
as well as deputies' interpellations and questions. - Includes also
data on the activity of the Constitutional Tribunal and the Supreme
Board of Control, as well as international co-operation of the
Diet
Przewodnik / Sejm
Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, 2. kadencja. - Warszawa : Wydawnictwo
Sejmowe, 1994
Directory of the Diet, updated to January 1995, including
biographic records of MPs, lists of members of parliamentary
committees, clubs and groups, as well as some statistical data on
MPs (age, sex, education, profession, etc.)
Biuletyn z
posiedzenia [...] / Kancelaria Sejmu, Biuro
Informacyjne
Bulletin including unauthorized reports of committee sittings. -
Double numbering of individual issues, consecutively within given
term of office of the Diet, as well as according to order (number)
of sittings of each particular committee
(updated in November 1998)
