Official name of the country:
Republic of Sierra Leone
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament: Parliament
2. Address
House of Parliament Library
Parliament Building
Tower Hill
Freetown
Tel.: *(232)(22)223915
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1961
Person in charge: Mr Jusu SESAY
Position or official title: Assistant
Librarian
Number of library staff: 5
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 2
Number of other staff: 3
Size of collection: 3.000
Number of current periodicals:
12
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 4
Number of current newspapers: 5
Press cuttings: Yes, by the
Library
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Library
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, senior
parliamentary staff; heads of Government departments;
scholars
Number of reading rooms: 1 (40)
Reference services: Yes
Other special services: Public
relations
Other special collections of the
Library: Official publications
IFLA membership: No
6. Parliamentary documents
Debates
Votes and
proceedings
Order paper
Reports and minutes of parliamentary committees
Standing orders
(updated in May 1996)