Official name of the country:
Sverige
(Kingdom of Sweden)
Official language: Swedish
Official name of Parliament:
Sveriges Riksdagen
(The Swedish Parliament)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Sveriges riksdag
Riksdagsbiblioteket
S-100 12 Stockholm
Sweden
Visiting address:
Riksdagsbiblioteket
Storkyrkobrinken 7
Stockholm
Tel.: *(46)(8)786 40 00
Fax: *(46)(8)786 57 71
E-mail:
riksdagsbiblioteket@riksdagen.se
Homepage: www.riksdagen.se
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1851
Person in charge: Ms Margareta
BRUNDIN
Position or official title:
Avdelningschef
Number of library staff: 42
Number of professional librarians:
31
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 6
Number of other staff: 5 (2
archivists, 1 editor, 2 historians)
Size of collection: 700.000
Number of annual accessions:
15.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 16 000
000 SEK (1 700 000 U$D)
Number of current periodicals:
2.000
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 200
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 1.500
Number of current newspapers:
300
Press cuttings: Not by the library,
by: Electronic cuttings by external supplier
Number of newspapers and press services used
for clipping: 250
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: Thesaurus and classification
system
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
Yes
Clientele: Members of Parliament,
staff of Parliament; Government and governmental agencies and
institutions; Scholars, students and the general public
Number of reading rooms: 12
(125)
Number of loans per year:
45.000
Reference services: 15.000
Current bibliographies: Yes, 1
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches:
3.000
Analysis and research: Not, by the
library, by: Department of Research Service
Other special services: Electronic
SDI service; Electronic new service; Educational courses for MP:s
and staff; Educational courses for librarians
Right to deposit: Swedish government
publications
Depository library: EU, GATT/WTO,
ILO, UN, Unesco
Other special collections of the
Library: Parliamentary documents and laws from other
countries; Publications of international organizations such as
Nordic Council, Council of Europe, OECD et al.
Any other information: External
databases in the internal net of the Riksdag
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
Statliga
publikationer : Årsbibliografi
Annual. - Swedish government publications
Läslistan
35 issues p.a. - New books and articles
EU-listan
7
p.a. - New books and articles on the EU
- Ståndsprotokoll
Minutes from the Four Estates Riksdag
Tvåkammarriksdagen : 1867 - 1970 ;
ledamöter och valkretsar
The bicameral Riksdag : Members and constituencies
Fakta om folkvalda. -
1985 -
Handbook
Riksdagen :
ledatmotsförteckning. - Stockholm : Riksdagens
förvaltningskontor
Annual list of Members and Riksdag Committee
5. Publications concerning the Library
Grönberg, L.:
The Library of the Swedish
Parliament : 1851 - 1980. - Uppsala, 1981. - 11 p.
The Parliamentary Libraries
of the Nordic Countries and other Information and Documentation
Services in the Nordic Parliaments. - Stockholm 2001. - 148
p. - ISBN 91-85050-70-9.
Riksdagsbiblioteket 150
år, 1851-2001. (The history
of the Parliamentary Library of Sweden between 1851 and
2001
Ed. by Margareta Brundin and Anders Norberg. Stockholm 2001. - 285
p. - ISBN 91-85050-51-2.
6. Parliamentary documents
* Protokoll /
Riksdagen
Bd A1 -
The Riksdag Minutes contain the full text of speeches and debates,
questions and interpellations asked and answered. - They also
provide decisions and results of votings. - Instantaneous minutes
are printed the day after the speech or the debate took place and
are replaced about a month later by the Final Minutes
* Protokoll /
Riksdagen
Bihang
Appendix to the Minutes
Saml. 1. Regeringens
propositioner
Bd B1 -
Proposals submitted to the Riksdag by the Government
Saml. 2. Förslag och
redogörelser
Bd C1 -
Proposals and reports from the various Riksdag organs and agencies,
as for instance from the Office of the Parliamentary
Ombudsmen
Saml. 3. Motioner
Bd D1 -
Proposals submitted to the Riksdag by Members
Saml. 4 - [20]
Bd E1 -
Reports from the Riksdag Committees
Saml. 21. Riksdagsskrivelser
Bd F1 -
Riksdag communications to the Government
* Register. - Bd
G
(updated in January 2003)
