Official name of the country:
Jamhuri ya Kenya
(Republic of Kenya)
Official language: KiSwahili
Business language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Bunge
(National Assembly)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Bunge
Maktaba ya Bunge
Parliament Buildings
P.O. Box 41842
Nairobi
Tel.: *(254)(2)221291 ext 33/7
Fax: *(254)(2)336589
Telex: 22696 FOREIGN RB
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1910
Person in charge: Mr Isaac Kibaba
SONGORO
Position or official title:
Librarian
Number of library staff: 9
Number of professional librarians:
2
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 2
Number of other staff: 5 (2
semi-professional, 3 para-professional)
Size of collection: 6.000
Number of annual accessions:
300
Annual acquisitions budget: 1.800.000
K Sh (~ US$ 33.000)
Number of current periodicals:
150
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: 1.500
Number of current newspapers:
18
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(6)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by Hansard Dept.
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, senior
parliamentary staff
Number of reading rooms: 1 (15)
Number of loans per year: 7.000
Reference services: 8.000
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Clerk's Chambers
Right to deposit: No
IFLA membership: No
6. Parliamentary documents
* Hansard
(updated in January 1995)
