Official name of the country:
Tuvalu
Official languages: Tuvalu,
English
Official name of Parliament: Palamene o Tuvalu / Parliament of Tuvalu
2. Address
Parliament of Tuvalu
Parliamentary Library
Private Mail Bag
Vaiaku
Funafuti
Tel.: *(688)20250
Fax: *(688)20253
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1984
Person in charge: Vacant
Position or official title: Assistant
Clerk of Parliament
Number of library staff: 2
Size of collection: 600
Number of annual accessions: 80
Annual acquisitions budget: 200 A$ (~
US$ 150)
Number of current periodicals:
12
Number of current newspapers: 1
Press cuttings: No
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Library
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: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff
Number of reading rooms: 1 (6)
Number of loans per year: 20
Reference services: 60
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Yes
Right to deposit: No
IFLA membership: No
6. Parliamentary documents
* Hansard
In Tuvalu
Legal
notices
- General
notices
- Supplement of
acts
- Reports of Government departments and statutory
bodies
(updated in October 1995)
