Official name of the country:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:*
Parliament
-Bicameral -
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Official names of Chambers:
House of Lords (1)
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
House of Lords
The Library
Houses of Parliament
London SW1A 0PW
Tel.: *(44)(171)2195242
Fax: *(44)(171)2196396
Telex: 916318
E-mail:
davispg@parliament.uk
Homepage:
http://www.parliament.uk
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1826
Person in charge: Mr David
Jones
Position or official title:
Librarian
Number of library staff: 20
Number of professional librarians:
10
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 5
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 5
Size of collection: 100.000
Number of annual accessions:
900
Number of current periodicals:
450
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Number of current newspapers:
40
Press cuttings: Yes
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, officers of
either House, restricted number of accredited research
assistants
Number of reading rooms: 5
(110)
Reference services: 13.000
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
Yes
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Library
Other special collections of the
Library: Truro law collections, Peel tracts, tracts on
Charles I and the Civil War
Any other information: The Library
provides research, information and bibliographic services in
support of the parliamentary and judicial functions of the House of
Lords
IFLA membership: Yes
5. Publications concerning the Library
House of Lords Library
Guide (1998). Brochure prepared for Members of the
House.
Companion to the Standing
Orders and Guide to the Proceedings of the House of Lords,
1994, as amended
Standing Orders of the
House of Lords Private Business 1991 (House of Lords Paper
72 of 1990-91), as amended
6. Parliamentary documents
Parliamentary
debates
House of Lords official report. - published daily, weekly and in
bound volumes containing the debates for 2/3 weeks. - indexes are
produced weekly with a cumulation twice within a session and a
final sessional cumulation. - collections of debates go back to the
year 1660 and printings of individual speeches even earlier. -
there is also Cobbett's Parliamentary
history 1066 - 1803. - from 1803 - 1909 Cobbett and then the
Hansard family followed by other publishers published debates on a
regular basis. - In 1909 the House of Lords itself took
responsibility for the publication of its debates through Her
Majesty's Stationery Office. - Since then they have been published
in a separate sequence from the House of Commons debates
Sessional
papers
Bills, reports from committees and standing orders. - from 1914 to
the 1970s these papers, arranged as Bills and then Papers were bound up each session into four to
five volumes. - more recently the number of volumes has increased
to nearer fifteen because of increased Select Committee work,
especially in relation to European Community proposals and affairs.
- a collection of these papers 1714 - 1805 was republished in 60
volumes. - collections of original printed papers 1800 - 1859 are
very rare indeed and 1860 - 1914 are also very rare. - A microfiche
edition of papers 1805 - 1859 has been published
The journal
Record of the business transacted by the House. - published after
each session. - cumulative indexes are published every ten years. -
the manuscript Journals exist from
1509. - printing started in 1767
Minutes of
proceedings
Business papers for sittings of the House. - running number for
each daily issue. - the issues have a running page number. - they
are bound up into one or two volumes for each session. - the
Minutes have been printed since
1825
(updated in August 1999)
