Official name of the country:
Dawlat Qatar
(State of Qatar)
Official language: Arabic
Official name of Parliament:
Majlis al-Shura
(Advisory Council)
2. Address
Majlis al-Shura
Maktaba
P.O. Box 2034
Doha
Tel.: *(974)413222; 415101
Fax: *(974)425526
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1972
Person in charge: Mr Nasarullah
Abdullah al-HAJ
Number of library staff: 2
Number of professional librarians:
1
Size of collection: 6.000
Number of annual accessions:
100
Annual acquisitions budget: 25.000 QR
(~ US$ 6.850)
Number of current periodicals:
10
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of current newspapers: 5
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?:
Yes
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 2 (30)
Number of loans per year: 250
Reference services: 10
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
Yes
External database searches: 10
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Library and by the Legal Dept.
IFLA membership: No
6. Parliamentary documents
Mahader
al-Jelsat
Verbatim report of sittings
(updated in January 1996)
