Libraries in United States of America
Official name of the federated
state/autonomous territory: Colorado
State
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Colorado General Assembly
-Bicameral -
Official names of Chambers:
Senate (1)
House of Representatives (2)
The Joint Legislative Library serves both chambers of the
Parliament
Address
Colorado Legislative Counsel
Joint Legislative Library
Room 029
State Capitol Building
Denver, CO 80203
Tel. (1)(303)8663521
Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1973
Person in charge: Ms Delores
Lanier,
Position or official title:
Librarian
Number of library staff: 3,
Number
of professional librarians: 2,
Number
of other staff in the Library: 1
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Thesaurus and classification
system
Restricted to members of parliament:
No,
Who else may use library: executive
branch agencies and the general public
IFLA membership: No
Parliamentary Papers
General Assembly
Status of legislation
: daily and final status sheet
Issued daily during session; final comes out about 1 month after
session ends.
Subject index of
bills
Issued periodically during session and after session ends; subject
approach to bills introduced
Senate
Senate journal
Daily
Official record of proceedings
Senate calendar
Schedule of work for any given day
House of Representatives
House journal
Daily
Official record of proceedings
House calendar
Schedule of work for any given day
