Official name of the country:
Dawlat al-Bahrayn
(State of Bahrain)
Official language: Arabic
Business language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Majlis al-Shura
(Consultative Council)
2. Address
Majlis al-Shura
Maktaba
P.O. Box 2991
Manama
Tel.: *(973)714422
Fax: *(973)715715
Telex: 7676
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1994
Person in charge: Mr Issa
al-JODER
Position or official title: Amin
Maktabat al-Majlis
Number of library staff: 3
Number of professional librarians:
1
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 2
Size of collection: 700
Annual acquisitions budget: 2.000 BD
(~ US$ 5.300)
Number of current newspapers:
10
Press cuttings: No
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
No
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: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff; Government officials
Number of reading rooms: 1 (35)
Reference services: Not known
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
Right to deposit: Yes
IFLA membership: No
6. Parliamentary documents
NOT ISSUED
(updated in March 1996))
