(Republic of Iceland)
Official language: Icelandic
Official name of Parliament:
Althingi
(Parliament)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Upplysingathjonusta Althingis
Information Services of the Parliament
Skolabru 2
150 Reykjavík
Tel.: *(354)5630500; 5630685
Fax: *(354)5630690; 5630520
Telex: 3035 PARL IS
E-mail:
upplysing@althingi.is
Homepage: http://www.althingi.is
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1849
Person in charge: Ms Kristin
GEIRSDOTTIR
Position or official title:
Deildarstjori Upplysingathjonustu
Number of library staff: 5
Number of professional librarians:
3
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 2
Size of collection: 31.000
Number of annual accessions:
500
Annual acquisitions budget: 2.500.000
ikr (~ US$ 40.000)
Number of current periodicals:
150
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Number of current newspapers:
30
Press cuttings: Yes, by a private
firm
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Publishing Dept.
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: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
Yes
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff; open to the public
Number of reading rooms: 1 (1)
Number of loans per year: 400
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: No
Depository library: Nordic
Council
IFLA membership: No
4. Publications published by the Library
Ritauki
Lists of books acquired by the Library. - Published monthly during
sessions (Oct. - April). - Ca. 8 lists p.a.
Nýtt efni (New aquisitions)
A list of new acquisitions of the library is published on the
Information services Intranet on Althingis Web.
5. Publications concerning the Library
The Library of
the Althingi, the Icelandic Parliament // In: The
parliamentary libraries of the Nordic countries. - Stockholm, 1988.
- p. 25 - 31
Blöndal,
Ragnhildur: Drög ad sögu
Althingisbókasafns. - 1992
Brief history of the Library of the Althingi
6. Parliamentary documents
Althingistídindi
Published weekly during sessions by the Althingi Office. - Divided
into two parts:
A. Thingskjöl
Documents, including bills, motions, opinions, written questions,
replies and reports
B. Umrædur
Verbatim report of parliamentary
debates
Up to the session 1986/87 there were two annual indexes to
Althingistídindi: a
classified index to A showing results of individual matters dealt
with by the Althingi as a part of A, a subject index to A and B as
a part of B. - It showed for each matter the numeration of
documents in A and the numeration of columns in B. - Following the
subject index: the list of speakers. - Since the session 1986/87 a
special volume containing various indexes is published
* Thingsköp
Althingis
Standing orders of the Althingi
* Handbók
Althingis
Handbook published after elections since 1984, a supplement being
published each session. - Contents: Parliamentary groups,
biographies of Members of the Althingi, Standing Committees,
election statistics, Speakers 1845 - , Cabinets and Ministers 1904
-
All publications are in Icelandic, except the Standing Orders which
are also available in Danish and English
(updated in April 1999)
