Libraries in Australia
Official name of the federated
state/autonomous territory: New South
Wales
State
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Legislature of New South Wales
-Bicameral -
Official names of Chambers:
Legislative Council (1)
Legislative Assembly (2)
The NSW Parliamentary Library serves both chambers of the
Parliament
Address
New South Wales Parliamentary Library
Parliament House
Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Tel. 61 (0)2 9230 2380
Fax 61 (0)2 231 1932
E-Mail:
lbrian@parliament.nsw.gov.au
Internet:
http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au
Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1840
Person in charge: Mr Rob Brian,
Position or official title:
Parliamentary Librarian
Number of library staff: 39,
Number
of professional librarians: 15,
Number
of research and subject analyst staff in the library:
6,
Number
of secretarial and support staff in the library: 11,
Number
of other staff in the Library: 7
Specification: Senior Library
Technicians (4), Library Technicians (3)
Size of collection: 160.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 114.100
AUD$
Equivalent in USD: 76.500
Number of current periodicals:
2.800
Periodicals are indexed for relevant articles by the library.
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 200
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 1.000
Number of current newspapers:
150
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(15)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by respective Houses
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
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?:
No
Restricted to members of parliament:
No,
Who else may use library: former
Members, Parliament House staff, bona
fide scholars, whose needs cannot be met elsewhere (at the
discretion of the Librarian)
Number of reading rooms: 1 (20)
Number of loans per year: 4.200
Reference services: 24.500
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: yes
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Library
Right to deposit: All paper based
publications published in New South Wales and all government
publications in whatever format.
IFLA membership: YES
Publications published by the
Library
PLAN : Parliamentary
Library action news
ISSN 1038-9393
Annual report
ISSN 0312-4789
Background
papers
ISSN 0817-3796
Current accessions
list
Current political press
comment
ISSN 0817-0430
Bills digest
Service guide to Members and
other users
Occasional
Papers
New South Wales State
Election Series [together with the University of Sydney
Department of Government]
Parliamentary Papers
Legislature
Bills
Statutes
Loose and annual bound volumes
Parliamentary
papers
Loose and sessional bound volumes
Parliamentary debates
: Hansard
Parliamentary
record
Parliamentary
handbook
Legislative Council
Minutes of
proceedings
Journal of the Legislative
Council
Sessional bound volume
Standing orders
Legislative Assembly
Votes and
proceedings
Loose sessional papers
Votes and proceedings of the
Legislative Assembly
Sessional bound volume of the Votes and
proceedings
Questions and
answers
Sessional bound volume
Notices of
motion
Sessional
summary
Standing
orders
(updated February 1998)
