Official name of the country:
Sri Lanka Prajatantrika Samajawadi
Janarajaya / Ilangai Jananayage
Socialisak Kudiarasu
(The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka)
Official languages: Sinhala,
Tamil
Link language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Sri Lanka Prajatantrika Samajawadi
Janarajaye Parlimentuwa
(Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri
Lanka)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Sri Lanka Prajatantrika Samajawadi Janarajaye Parlimentuwa
Parlimentu Pustakalaya
Parliament House
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte
Tel.: *(94)(1)864483/6; 864100 ext 6460
Fax: *(94)(1)864227
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1927
Person in charge: Mr Neththasinghe
Mudiyanselage Chandra THILAKARATHNE
Position or official title:
Parlimentuwe Pusthakalayadhipathi
Number of library staff: 14
Number of professional librarians:
3
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 2
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 6
Number of other staff: 3
(parliamentary services assistants)
Size of collection: 33.000
Number of annual accessions:
400
Annual acquisitions budget: 320.000
S.L. Re (~ US$ 6.400)
Number of current periodicals:
35
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Number of current newspapers:
30
Press cuttings: Yes, by the
Library
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Library
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Classification system
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff; Cabinet of Ministers
Number of reading rooms: 2
(100)
Number of loans per year: 1.500
Reference services: 3.000
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Library
Right to deposit: No
Other special collections of the
Library: Rare books on Sri Lanka
IFLA membership: No
6. Parliamentary documents
Parliamentary
debates : Hansard
Parliamentary
series
Standing orders
(updated in January 1995)
