Note: In conformitiy with international law the People's Republic of China lays claim to the island of Taiwan as a Chinese province. The Library and Information Service of the Legislative Yüan informaton which is presented on this page is an Institutional Member of IFLA.
Official language: Chinese
Official name of Parliament:
Lì Fa Yüàn (Legislative
Yuan)
-unicameral-
2. Address
Lì Fa Yüàn
Gwo Hwei Tu Shu Gwang
National Parliamentary Library
No. 1, Chung Shan South Road,
Taipei 100, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Tel: *(011-886)(2)23 58 56 68
Fax: *(011-886)(2)23 58 56 70
E-mail:
npl@ly.gov.tw (for National Parliamentary
Library)
E-mail:
karlku@ly.gov.tw (for Director General)
Homepage:
http://npl.ly.gov.tw
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1949
Person in charge: Mr KU Karl
Min
Position or official title: Director
General
Number of library staff: 56
Number of professional librarians:
45
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 28
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 17
Number of other staff: 11 (mechanics
(7), office attendants (4))
Size of collection: 126.465
Number of annual accessions:
4.525
Annual acquisitions budget: 8.113.333
NT$ (~ US$ 252.201)
Number of current periodicals:
688
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 150
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 3,500
Number of current newspapers:
54
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(18)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes
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?:
Yes
Clientele: Members, Parliamentary
staff; Government officials, journalists
Number of reading rooms: 3 (97)
Number of loans per year:
12.667
Reference services: 96.000
Current bibliographies: 20
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
16,403
External database searches:
27.456
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Library
Other special collections of the
Library: 300 kinds of microfilms, 38 kind of CD-ROM
products, official gazettes of Central, Provincial, and District
governments
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
* Newsletter of books and documentation. Quarterly.
This newsletter is an institutional publication announcing
activities of the entire LIS. Including new services and policies,
new collections, foreign codes introduction, the statistics and
bibliographies of other document services, etc.
*Chinese legislative news review index. Monthly.
This index provides news messages from more than fifteen titles of
Chinese newspapers, inlcuding the status and criticism about the
bill, the public opinions, and the statements of legislators.
Chinese legislative news review series. Irregular.
This review collects all the news messages under one same topic
from the item sof the Legislative News Clippings Service by the
LIS
Selective dissemination of information series
Assembles articles from chapters of monographs, proceedings and
reports, which focus on hot issues, bill amendments and political
events. - Restricted circulation
Legislative decision support service
Each issue collects the legislative history, law reviews, index of
debates and bibliographies related to a particular pending bill in
the current session to provide information support to legislators.
- Restricted circulation
Index to legal periodicals
It collects summaries of legal periodicals, which have been briefly
translated from English and Japanese law reviews. - Restricted
circulation
*Code resource pathfinder. Bimonthly. This reading
list maps out all the possible ways and available materials for
those who are searching information about a particular act or code.
The Pathfinder is complied under the supervision of law
experts.
Index to Chinese legislative literature
Bimonthly. - Bibliographic list of the Chinese periodical articles
on finance, education, economics, and sociology, etc., with annual bound editions
Codes and reference books catalogue. Biennial. This
is a bibliographic list for all reference materials and codes
collections within the LIS
Gazettes, proceedings and serial catalogue.
Biennial. This is a bibliographic list fot all the official
gazettes, proceedings and all the serial collections within the
LIS.
The Legislative Yuan Library Catalogue. This
bibliographic list contains all the monographs, periodicals, codes
and every kind of government gazettes, proceedings etc. held in the
LIS
*LEGISIS thesaurus. Biennial. This Chinese-English
bilingual thesaurus contains 3924 terms in law, politics and social
sciences. It serves as a vocabulary control tool for LIS databases
and enhances the precision rate in retrieving information from LIS
databases.
Selective abstracts of U.S. Congressional record.
Arranged in eight broad subjects, this collection contains more
than five hundred abstracts of senate and House bills from U.S.
Congressional records.
Subject guide to Chinese code
Irregular. - Classified by many subjects, it provides the entire
content of the R.O.C. laws which were enacted by the Legislative
Yuan and promulgated by the President
Code amendment cyclopedia
Irregular. - The information in this cyclopedia contains the main
reason of each amendment for the codes. - It offers the detailed
legislative background of each code , so legislators can get a
better understanding of the different editions of the codes
Collection of interpellation records
Irregular. - It is the on-line edition of the legislators'
individual interpellation records. - Several kinds of the
statistical printouts are offered by the legislators'
interpellation information system
Legislative Microform Catalog. Irregular. This
catalog lists 291 kinds of microform materials in the collection.
The bibliographic record of the item includes microform title,
compiler, producer, coverage, and remarks etc.
Legislative literature information retrieval system.
Provides index to social, political, economic, and law documents
from more that 150 kinds of Chinese journals, research papers, or
offical reports which are currently available in the LIS. Records
in this database can be retrieved by bibliographic or by subject
access.
Legislative Yuan Gazette draft. Provides the most
current and timely information of all important matters occurring
within the Legislative Yuan. It also maintains an informal record
for the proceedings of the Yuan Councils and Committee meetings.
Unlike the Gazette, it is issued every day during session as long
as there is a meeting held the previous day.
Index of Legislative Record. Irregular. It assembles
the legislative records and the debate records, including
statistical reports, committee reports, and indexes of legislative
history.
All publications are in Chinese, except the LEGISIS thesaurus
Data bases produced by the LIS (selective list):
Chinese code information system
This full-text database provides to the complete contents of the
code by title or subject access. - It also provides
enacting/amending history of each code and statistic reports on the
number of the acts solved in each congressional session
Legislators' interpellation information system
Interpellation Records System provides a public accessible,
bibliographic database, which has abstract for each interpellation
conducted orally or in writing by the Legislators. - The
interpellation records can be retrieved by subject, personal name,
or by data. - Using this system people may conduct either a
comprehensive, retrospective search, or a selective current
information search. - It also provides statistic reports of
those
records which can be variably assorted by subject categories or by
interpellators. - Based on the offical Legislative Yuan gazette,
this database contains abstracts or each oral or writing
interpellation by legislators. - It can be searched by subject,
keyword, name, date, or congressional session, and may produce
statistic reports assorted by subject categories or
interpellators
Legislative news information system
Contains a daily index of news stories from the major local
newspapers. - Every working day the previous day's news are indexed
and added to its database to provide current and timely
information. - It offers a comprehensive coverage of legal,
political, economic news and legislative information. - The file
corresponds to printed publication of the Chinese legislative news
index. - Records in this database contain basic bibliographic
information as well as document types and subject descriptors
Legislative literature information retrieval
system
Provides index to social, political, economic, and law documents
from more than 100 kinds of Chinese journals, research papers, or
official reports which are currently available in the LIS. -
Records in this database can be retrieved by bibliographic or by
subject access
5. Publications concerning the Library
Introduction to Library and Information
Service
Irregular. - This brochure traces the process of Library and
Information Service and introduces a variety of services offered by
the Library and Information Service, such as the reference service,
the reporting service and the compilation service
6. Parliamentary documents
Legislative Yuan gazette
This publication contains the full text of the statements and
discussions made by the legislators' interpellation records as well
as officials' administrative reports conducted either orally or in
writing. - It is published every Wednesday and Saturday during
session. - The contents of its records are formal and official
Legislative Yuan proceeding
The Proceeding is issued prior to each Yuan Council to provide a
brief description of the business dealt with in the previous
Council
Proceeding agenda
This Agenda is issued prior to each Yuan Council and shows the
order of the business to be dealt with in the Council. - It also
contains the written replies of the Administrative Yuan in response
to legislators' interpellations
News draft
Provides the most current and timely information of all important
matters occurring within the Legislative Yuan. - It also maintains
an informal record for the proceedings of the Yuan Councils and
Committee meetings. - Unlike the Gazette, it is issued every day
during session, as long as there is meeting held in previous
day
Journal of Legislative Yuan
Monthly. - This is an institutional publication which announces
important activities among the legislators or the supporting staff
of the Yuan. - It also contains articles of some legal or
parliamentary issues
All publications are in Chinese
(updated in June 2000)
