Libraries in Canada
Official name of the federated
state/autonomous territory: Saskatchewan
Province
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Legislative Assembly
- Unicameral -
Address
Saskatchewan Legislative Library
234 Legislative Building
Regina, Sask., S4S 0B3
Tel. (1)(306)7872276
Fax (1)(306)7871771
Cable address: Comparlas Regina
E-Mail:
reference@legassembly.sk.ca
Homepage: http://www.legassembly.sk.ca
Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1876
Person in charge: Ms Marian
Powell,
Position or official title:
Legislative Librarian
Number of library staff: 15
Number
of professional librarians: 7
Number
of other staff in the Library: 8
Size of collection: 354.133
Annual acquisitions budget:
207.090
Number of current periodicals:
4.977
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No, not by the library
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
Restricted to members of parliament:
No,
Who else may use library: limited
access to the Library is available to the civil service, outside
researchers, and private citizens when they have no alternate
source of information
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
Yes
Right to deposit: The Legislative
Library is the legal deposit for 6 copies of publications from
Saskatchewan
Any other information: The
specialized collection emphasizes law, history, economics, and
political science and includes the largest collection of government
publications and Saskatchewan newspapers in the Province
IFLA membership: No
Publications published by the
Library
Checklist of
Saskatchewan government publications
Monthly
Report on the
Library
Sessional
Selected list of
accessions
Bi-monthly
Annual report on
the Library
Annually
Publications concerning the
Library
MacDonald,
Christine: The Legislative Library
of Saskatchewan : a history. - Regina, Saskatchewan :
Saskatchewan Legislative Library, 1986. - 109 p.
Powell, Marion
J.: Sasketchewan // In:
Canada's parliamentary libraries=Les bibliothèques
parlementaires du Canada / The Association of Parliamentary
Librarians in Canada. - 1989
Parliamentary Papers
Routine
proceedings and orders of the day of the Legislative Assembly of
the Province of Saskatchewan
Journals of the
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Saskatchewan
Debates and
proceedings
Votes and
proceedings of the Legislative Assembly
(updated in August 1998)
