Libraries in Brazil
Official name of the federated
state/autonomous territory: Minas
Gerais
Estado
Official language:
Portugués
Official name of Parliament:
Assembléia Legislativa do Estado de
Minas Gerais (Minas Gerais State Legislature)
- Unicameral -
Address
Área de Documentação e
Informação
Documentation and Information Area
Assembléia Legislativa do Estado de Minas Gerais
Rua Rodriguez Caldas
30 - andar SE
190-921 - Belo Horizonte - MG
Tel (055)(031)290-7661
Fax (055)(31)2751122
E-Mail:
biblioteca@almg.gov.br
Homepage:
http://www.almg.gov.br
Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1892
Person in charge: Mr. Alaôr
Messias MARQUES JÚNIOR
Position or official title:
Gerente-Geral
Number of library staff: 43
Number of professional librarians:
8
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 14
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 21
Size of collection (number of
volumes): 10.000
Number of annual accessions (number of
volumes): 458
Annual acquisitions budget in national
currency: R$ 21.000,00 (Reais) Equivalent in US$:
17.500,00
Number of current periodicals:
78
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes
Number of indexed periodicals:
65
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 179
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 7.421
Number of current newspapers:
16
Press cuttings: by the library; by
Área de Comunicação Social
Number of newspapers and press services used
for clipping: 6
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: Yes
Library uses thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: thesaurus; classification
system
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
Yes
Clientele: Members and staff of the
Parliament
Public in general
Number of reading rooms: 3
Number of seats: 42
Number of loans per year: 4.180
Reference services: 21.356
Current bibliographies: no
Subject bibliographies: no
External database searches:
5.168
Analysis and research: yes
Other special services: - Databases
of state legislation and projects in process
- Research of primary sources about the history of institucional
composition
- Dissemination of information (current contents and new
acquisitions)
- Bibliographic standardization of institucional publications
- Vocabulary control for institucional databases
- Support on the planning and implementation of textual
databases
- Training courses for municipal legislative agents
Right to deposit: Publications of the
Minas Gerais State Legislature
Depository library for: Minas Gerais
State Legislature
Other special collections: Thesis and
dissertations about the legislative area
IFLA membership:: No
(updated July 1999)
