Official name of the country: Jamhuri ya
Muungano wa Tanzania
(United Republic of Tanzania)
Official language: KiSwahili
Business language: English
Official name of Parliament: Bunge la
Tanzania
(National Assembly)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
For the House of Representatives of Zanzibar as a self-governing part of the United Republic of Tanzania see World directory of parliamentary libraries of federated states and autonomous territories
2. Address
Maktaba ya Bunge
P.O. Box 941
Dodoma
Tel.: *(225)(61)22761/5
Fax: *(225)(61)24018
Telex: 53092 BUNGE TZ
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1961
Person in charge: Mr Philip Adolf
Ntomola
Position or official title: Chief
Librarian
Number of library staff: 5
Number of professional librarians:
3
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 1
Number of other staff: 1 (library
attendant)
Size of collection: 5.700
Number of annual accessions:
100
Annual acquisitions budget:
28.000.000 T Sh (~ US$ 48.000)
Number of current periodicals:
15
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 10
Number of current newspapers:
15
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(10)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
No
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, parliamentary
staff; senior Government officials
Number of reading rooms: 1 (40)
Number of loans per year: 50
Reference services: 200
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject
bibliographies:. No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
Right to deposit: No
Any other information: The Library is
being reorganized. Many library activities are not yet in full
operation
IFLA membership: No
6. Parliamentary documents
Parliamentary debates : Hansard
In KiSwahili
Standing orders
In KiSwahili
(updated in October 1995)
