Official name of the country:
Republic of Zambia
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
National Assembly of Zambia
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
National Assembly of Zambia
Parliamentary Information and Research Library
Parliament Buildings
P.O. Box 31299
Lusaka, 10101
Tel.: *(260)(1)292425/36 ext 327
Fax: *(260)(1)292252
Telex: PARLY ZA 44390
E-mail:
tcmtine@zamnet.zm
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1953
Person in charge: Ms Tembi Chalabesa
MTINE
Position or official title: Chief
Librarian
Number of library staff: 12
Number of professional librarians:
4
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 8
Size of collection: 50.000
Annual acquisitions budget:
20.000.000 K (~ US$ 21.500)
Number of current periodicals:
255
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Number of current newspapers: 7
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Research
Dept. (2)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Parliamentary Publications Dept.
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: 64
seats
Number of loans per year: 3.500
Reference services: 400
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Research Dept.
IFLA membership: Yes
6. Parliamentary documents
Parliamentary
debates
- Votes and
proceedings
- Committee
reports
National Assembly standing
orders
Members'
handbook
(updated in January 1995)
