Official name of the country:
Jamaica
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Houses of Parliament
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
-Bicameral -
Official names of Chambers:
Senate (1)
House of Representatives (2)
The Library serves both chambers of the Parliament
2. Address
Houses of Parliament
Parliamentary Library
Gordon House
81, Duke Street
P.O. Box 636
Kingston
Tel.: *(1)(809)9220200/5
Fax: *(1)(809)9670064
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1969
Person in charge: Ms Janet
CHAMBERS
Position or official title:
Librarian
Number of library staff: 2
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 1
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 1
Size of collection: 5.000
Number of annual accessions: 20
Annual acquisitions budget: 250.000
J$ (~ US$ 6.000)
Number of current periodicals:
50
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 10
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 40
Number of current newspapers: 3
Press cuttings: Yes, by the
Library
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, parliamentarians'
personal staff, parliamentary staff; public officials; tertiary
level researchers
Number of reading rooms: 1 (16)
Number of loans per year: 50
Reference services: 300
Current bibliographies: No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
Depository library: United
Nations
IFLA membership: No
5. Publications concerning the Library
Mclean, Pauline A.:
User manual Parliamentary Library :
procedures and policy. - 1994
6. Parliamentary documents
Parliament
Amendments and
laws
Green papers
Standing order :
House of Representatives and Senate. - 1964
* The Jamaica (Constitution)
Order in Council. - 1962
* Report of the
Constitutional Commission
1993, 1994
Final report constitutionel
and electoral reform. - 1995
(updated in November 1995)
