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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)

Quelle: http://www.bundestag.de/wissen/bibliothek/library/jamai
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