Official name of the country:
República de Colombia
(Republic of Colombia)
Official language: Español
Official name of Parliament:
Congreso de la
República
(Congress of the Republic)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
-Bicameral -
Official names of Chambers:
Senado de la República
(1)
(Senate of the Republic)
Cámara de Representantes
(2)
(House of Representatives)
Member of the ASGP
The Library serves both chambers of the Parliament
2. Address
Congreso de la República
Biblioteca
Calle 9 Núm. 8 - 91
Apdo. aéreo Núm. 11467
Santafé de Bogotá, D.C.
Tel.: *(57)(1)2846478,
Fax: *(57)(1)2829050; 2840467; 2845560
Telex: SENIN CO 45 582
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1980
Person in charge: Sr. D. Alvaro
OROSCO
Number of library staff: 5
Number of professional librarians:
1
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 2
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 2
Size of collection: 140.000
Number of annual accessions:
1.300
Annual acquisitions budget:
150.000.000 Col$ (~ US$ 170.000)
Number of current periodicals:
60
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Sí, por las oficinas congresistas
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Sí, por la biblioteca
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: Sí
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: No
Automation of cataloguing: No
Clientele: Miembros, personal
administrativo del parlamento; abierta al público
Number of reading rooms: 2 (32)
Number of loans per year: 1.200
Reference services: No
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Sí, por
la unidad de Trabajo Legislativo
Right to deposit: Sí, para
toda obra científica y literaria del país
IFLA membership: No
5. Publications concerning the Library
- Vivas Tafur, Diego: [La Biblioteca del Congreso de] Colombia // In: Memoria del Primer Encuentro
Iberoamericano de Bibliotecas Parlamentarias, México, 20 -
23 de octubre de 1993. - México, 1994. - p. 163 -
167
6. Parliamentary documents
Congreso de la República
* Análes del
Congreso
Gaceta del
Congreso
Revista del
Congreso
Reglamento del
Congreso : constitución política de Colombia y
otras normas referentes a la rama legislativa. - Santa Fe de
Bogotá : Imprenta Nacional, 1992
(updated in March 1995)