Libraries in Australia
Official name of the federated
state/autonomous territory: Victoria
State
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Parliament of Victoria
-Bicameral -
Official names of Chambers:
Legislative Council (1)
Legislative Assembly (2)
The Parliamentary Library serves both chambers of the
Parliament
Address
Parliamentary Library
Parliament House
Spring Street
Melbourne VIC. 3002
Tel. (61)(3)6518640
Fax (61)(3)6509775
Homepage: http://www.http://www.aph.gov.au/
Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1851
Person in charge: Mr Bruce
Davidson,
Position or official title:
Parliamentary Librarian
Number of library staff: 24,
Number of professional librarians:
10,
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 2
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 9
Number of other staff in the Library:
3 (1 Systems Officer, 1 Web Development Officer, 1 Education
Officer)
Size of collection: 150.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 160.000
A$ (~ USD 100.000)
Number of current periodicals:
3.000
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Thesaurus and classification
system
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
No
Restricted to members of parliament:
No,
Who else may use library: Members'
staff, staff of parties located at Parliament House, officers and
staff
Number of reading rooms: 4 (25)
Number of loans per year: 4.100
Reference services: 6.200
Right to deposit: Full depository
status for all publications issued by Victorian Government
Departments and instrumentalities
IFLA membership: No
Publications published by the Library
Official name of Parliament:
Regularly
Select list of abstracts of
recent periodical articles
Monthly
Select list of recent
additions
Books ; monthly
Information
papers
Briefing papers
Eletorate
profiles
Statistical summary of
Victoria
Quarterly
Victoria parliamentary
handbook
Every 4 years or for each new Parliament
Your parliament information
kit
Updated annually
Other
Brown, Geoff:
Biographical register of the Parliament of
Victoria : 1900 - 1984. - Melbourne, 1985
Jones, Catherine:
Presiding Officers of the Victorian
Parliament : 1856 - 1986. - Melbourne, 1986
Wright, Raymond:
A people's counsel : a history of
the Parliament of Victoria ; 1856 - 1990. - Melbourne : Oxford
University Press, 1992
Wright, Raymond:
Who stole the Mace? - Melbourne,
1991
Parliamentary Papers
Parliament
Hansard
Daily
Weekly
Bound Volumes
Bills
Bills list
Progress of legislation before the Houses
Parliamentary
papers
Includes: Budget papers;
Parliamentary reports; Parliamentary Committee reports; Ombudsman reports; Royal Commission reports; Board of Enquiry reports; Weekly reports of Divisions; Auditor-General's reports;
Notice papers
-* Members lists
Legislative Council
Minutes
Legislative Assembly
Votes and
proceedings
(updated in August 1998)
