Official name of the country:
Gana Praja Tantri Bangla Desh
(People's Republic of Bangladesh)
Official language: Bengali
Business language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Bangladesh Jatiyo Sangsad
(Bangladesh Parliament)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Bangladesh Jatiyo Sangsad
Sangsad Granthagar
Shachibalaya
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar
Dhaka-1207
Tel.: *(880)(2)811600; 316514
Fax: *(880)(2)812267
Telex: 672812 SNGSD
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1948
Person in charge: Mr Kazi Tauhid
Hasan
Position or official title: Pradhan
Granthagarik
Number of library staff: 20
Number of professional librarians:
7
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 13
Size of collection: 72.000
Number of annual accessions:
1.500
Annual acquisitions budget: 1.000.000
Tk (~ US$ 25.000)
Number of current periodicals:
25
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 5
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 5.000
Number of current newspapers:
30
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Public
Relations Branch (15)
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: 2
(200)
Number of loans per year: 5.400
Reference services: 8.500
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
Right to deposit: Newspapers and
books
Any other information: In conjunction
with the Parliament Library there are a Research Section and a
Reference & Documentation Section
IFLA membership: No
6. Parliamentary documents
* Hansard
In
Bengali
* Constitution
In English and Bengali
* Rules of
procedure
In English and Bengali
* List of Members of Parliament
In Bengali
(updated in January 1995)
