Official name of the country:
Republic of Singapore / Republik Singapura /
Xinjiapo Gonghe-gno
Official languages: English, Malay,
Chinese, Tamil
Official name of Parliament:
Parliament of
Singapore
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
2. Address
Parliament of Singapore
Parliament Library
Parliament House
1 High Street
Singapore 179429
Tel.: *(65)3325506
Fax: *(65)3325536
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1955
Person in charge: Ms Khoo Sait
Poh
Position or official title:
Librarian
Number of library staff: 3
Number of professional librarians:
1
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 2
Size of collection (number of
volumes): 21,000
Number of annual accessions:
500
Annual acquisitions budget: 60.000 S$
(~ US$ 43.000)
Number of current periodicals:
200
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Number of current newspapers:
24
Press cuttings: Yes, by the
Library
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Library
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Classification system
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff; Government officials; participants of the Singapore
Integrated Library System
Number of reading rooms: 3 (22)
Number of loans per year: 1.000
Reference services: yes
Current bibliographies: yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: yes
Analysis and research: yes
Right to deposit: No
Other special collections of the
Library: Hansards collection: Australia, India, New Zealand,
United Kingdom (1909 - )
IFLA membership: No
4. Publications published by the Library
Library accession
list
6. Parliamentary documents
Parliamentary
debates : official report
Votes and
proceedings
Parliamentary
papers
Order
papers
(updated in February 1999)
