Libraries in United States of America
Official name of the federated
state/autonomous territory: Minnesota
State
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Minnesota Legislature
-Bicameral -
Official names of Chambers:
Senate (1)
House of Representatives (2)
The Legislative Reference Library serves both chambers of the
Parliament
Address
Minnesota Legislature
Legislative Reference Library
645 State Office Building
100 Constitution Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55155-1050
Tel. (1) (612) 2963398
Fax (1) (612) 2969731
Homepage:
www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/lrl.htm
Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1969
Person in charge: Ms Marilyn
Cathcart,
Position or official title:
Director
Number of library staff: 25
Number
of professional librarians: 10
Number
of other staff in the Library: 15
Size of collection: 39.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 79.000
US$
Number of current periodicals:
992
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: open to the
public
Right to deposit: Depository status
for Minnesota State documents
IFLA membership: No
Publications published by the
Library
A guide to magazines and
newspapers in the Legislative Reference Library
Biennial
Introductions
Bimonthly
Selected list of current non-Minnesota publications catalogued by
the Library
Inside issues
Weekly
Customized current awareness citations
Minnesota
highlights
Bimonthly
Background article on accessing Minnesota
State govt. publications
Documents on
fiche
Monthly
Complete listing of Minnesota State documents on fiche
Minnesota
resources
10 issues p.a.
Selected list of current Minnesota documents
Publications concerning the
Library
A guide to Joint Legislative
Services
Biennial
Parliamentary Papers
Senate
Journal of the Senate
Official record of proceedings
House of Representatives
Journal of the House of
Representatives
Official record of proceedings
(Updated in October 1999)
