Libraries in Canada
Official name of the federated
state/autonomous territory: New
Brunswick
Province
Official languages: English,
French
Official name of Parliament:
Legislative Assembly / Assemblée Législative
- Unicameral -
2. Address
New Brunswick Legislative Library
P.O. Box 6000
Fredericton, N.B., E3B 5H1
Canada
Tel. (1)(506)4532338
Fax (1)(506)4537154
Cable address: Comparlas Fredericton
E-Mail:
leglibbib@gov.nb.ca
Internet-Homepage:
http://www.gov.nb.ca/legis/library.htm
Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1841
Person in charge: Mr Eric L.
Swanick,
Position or official title:
Director
Number of library staff: 7
Number of professional librarians:
4
Number of secretarial and support staff in
the Library: 3
Size of collection: 250.000
Number of annual accessions:
25.500
Annual acquisitions budget: 20.000 C$
(USD 12,000)
Number of current periodicals:
800
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Number of current newspapers:
25
Press cuttings: Ja (4)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Not
by the library, by the Journal of Debates (Hansard) Office
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: thesaurus
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
No
Restricted to members of parliament:
No
Who else may use library: All
Number of reading rooms: 2 (35)
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
Yes
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: Yes
Right to deposit: This library
deposits New Brunswick government publications with the National
Library of Canada.
Depository library for: This library
is a full depository library for all New Brunswick government
publications as well as those from the federal gov't in both
official languages.
Other special collections of the
Library: Excellent collection of New brunswick
material.
Any other information: Through
exchange and deposit agreements, it also holds Sessional papers and
publications of the other provinces and the territories. All
newspapers of the Province are acquired and an extensive
periodicals collection is maintained
IFLA membership: No
Publications published by the
Library
Library
update=Nouvelles sur la
bibliothèque
New Brunswick
government documents annual catalogue = Publications gouvernementales du Nouveau-Brunswick
catalogue annuel
New Brunswick
government publications quarterly list = Publications du gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick
liste trimestrielle
- Periodical contents = Table des matières des
périodiques
Selected
accessions = Liste sélective
d'acquisitions
Publications concerning the
Library
- Beard, John Robert: Canadian provincial libraries. - Ottawa :
Canadian Library Association, 1967. - 303 p. - (Occasional paper ;
54)
- Conway, Donald: The development of the New Brunswick Legislative
Library // In: New Brunswick library history / ed. by Eric
L. Swanick. - Halifax : School of Library and Information Studies,
1991. - p. 1 - 37
- Coughlin, Violet: Layer units of public library service in Canada
: with particular reference to the Provinces of Prince
Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. - Metuchen, N.J. :
Scarecrow, 1968. - 330 p.
Swanick, Eric
L.: New Brunswick =
Nouveau-Brunswick // In: Canada's
parliamentary libraries=Les bibliothèques parlementaires du
Canada / The Association of Parliamentary Librarians in Canada. -
1989
Parliamentray Papers
Journal of
debates : Hansard=Journaux de
débats
Daily during session
Journals=Journaux
Annual
Standing
rules = Règlement
1986 -
Bills =
Projets de loi
- Status of legislation = État des travaux
