Official names of Chambers:
National Assembly (2)
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
National Assembly of Pakistan
National Assembly Library
Parliament House
Constitution Avenue
Islamabad
Tel.: *(92)(51)825626
Fax: *(92)(51)824673
Telex: 54610 NA PK
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1947
Person in charge: Mr Naim uddin
Siddiqi
Position or official title:
Librarian
Number of library staff: 15
Number of professional librarians:
6
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 5
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 9
Size of collection: 60.000
Number of annual accessions:
1.500
Annual acquisitions budget: 2.000.000
Rs (~ US$ 65.000)
Number of current periodicals:
125
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles:; Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 100
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 15.000
Number of current newspapers:
25
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(15)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Editor of Debates
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?:
Yes
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff; scholars when Parliament is not
in session
Number of reading rooms: 1 (50)
Number of loans per year:
15.000
Reference services: 25.000
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Research Centre
Other special collections of the
Library: Original works on Islam written in Arabic
Any other information: The Library
has a small Research Group attached to it inclu-
ding 5 professional research analysts
IFLA membership: No
4. Publications published by the Library
Newsletter
- Gazette of the National Assembly
Monthly
6. Parliamentary documents
Debates of the
National Assembly of Pakistan
Full text of speeches made in the National Assembly with full text
of other material such as questions asked and answered, Ministerial
statements, etc. - Published on a
daily basis, each daily issue being dated and numbered according to
the number of sitting day. - Also contains a Table of
Contents
Rules of
procedure and conduct of business in the National Assembly of
Pakistan. - Islamabad : Printing Corporation of Pakistan
Press, 1973. - 71 p.
Constitution-making in Pakistan. - Karachi :
Manager of Publications, 1975. -172 p.
Basic
Constitutional documents. - Karachi : Manager of
Publications, 1980. - 2 vols., 1132 p.
(updated in September 1995)
