Official name of the country:
Al-Mamlakah al-`Arabiyah
al-Sa`udiyah
(Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Official language: Arabic
Official name of Parliament:
Majlis ash Shura
(Consultative Council)
2. Address
Majlis ash Shura
Maktaba
P.O. Box 63393
Riyadh 11516
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Code No. 11212
Tel.: *(966)(1)4821666
Fax: *(966)(1)4881496
Telex: 407999 SHURA SJ
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation:: 1993
Person in charge: Mr Abdulrahman
al-SARRA
Position or official title: Mudir
al-Maktaba
Number of library staff: 16
Number of professional librarians:
4
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 8
Number of other staff: 4
Size of collection: 13.000
Number of annual accessions:
3.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 200.000
S.Rl. (~ US$ 53.000)
Number of current periodicals:
160
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of current newspapers:
37
Press cuttings: Yes, by the
Library
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Library
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: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff
Number of reading rooms: 20
(70)
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
Yes
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: No
IFLA membership: Yes
5. Publications concerning the Library
Bulloch, John:
The Shura Council in Saudi Arabia.
- London, 1995. - 118 p.
ISBN 1-871415-67-5
6. Parliamentary documents
* Majlis ash Shura. -
Ar-Riyadh
In Arabic
(updated in February 1995)
