Official name of the country:
Jumhuriyat al-Sudan
(Republic of the Sudan)
Official language: Arabic
Official name of Parliament:
Al-Majlis al-Watani al-Intiqali
(The Transitional National Assembly)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Al-Majlis al-Watani al-Intiqali
Maktaba
14416 Omdurman
Tel.: *(249)(11)557849; 559642
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1976
Person in charge: Mr Ibrahim Ali
TAIALLAH
Position or official title: Amin
al-Maktaba
Number of library staff: 13
Number of professional librarians:
3
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 1
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 7
Number of other staff: 2
(attendants)
Size of collection: 4.700
Number of annual accessions:
200
Annual acquisitions budget: 3.000.000
S£ (~ US$ 4.800)
Number of current periodicals:
1
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Number of current newspapers:
10
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(4)
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, parliamentary
staff; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 6 (65)
Number of loans per year: 1.200
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
IFLA membership: No
6. Parliamentary documents
Mahader
al-Jelsat
Verbatim record of sittings
Majelet
al-Perlemant
Journal of Parliament
(updated in January 1996)
