Official name of the country:
Republic of Zimbabwe
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Parliament of
Zimbabwe
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Parliament of Zimbabwe
Library of Parliament
P.O. Box CY 298
Causeway
Harare
Tel.: *(263)(4)729722 ext 2131
Fax: *(263)(4)795548
Telex: 24064 ZIMPAR ZW
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1923
Person in charge: Mr Nelson
MASAWI
Position or official title: Librarian
to Parliament
Number of library staff: 10
Number of professional librarians:
4
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 6
Size of collection: 150.000
Number of annual accessions:
300
Annual acquisitions budget: 180.000
Z$ (~ US$ 21.000)
Number of current periodicals:
100
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 10
Number of current newspapers:
15
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
(15)
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: Thesaurus
Automation of cataloguing: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff; Government officials; senior staff of parastatal bodies,
army, police
Number of reading rooms: 5 (10)
Number of loans per year:
10.000
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Yes, by the
Library
Right to deposit: No
Other special collections of the
Library: Zimbabweana collection, national official
publications and parliamentary documents, pre-independence
materials
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
Annual
report
Select list of
current articles from newspapers and periodicals
Quarterly list
of acquisitions
Notes for
Members
5. Publications concerning the Library
The Library of
Parliament : bye-laws 1976 and as amended 1978, 1982, 1984.
- Harare : Govt. Printer, 1984
The Library of
Parliament. - 2nd ed. - Harare : Govt. Printer, 1985
Gurure, Winford
H.C.: Resource problems in
parliamentary library service systems : with particular
reference to Zimbabwe. - Pretoria : The State Library, 1983
Gurure, Winford
H.C.: Research, information and
documentation services for Members of Parliament // In:
Zimbabwe librarian. - 17 (1985),1, p. 11 - 14
6. Parliamentary documents
Parliamentary
debates : Hansard
Votes and
proceedings
Order
paper
Committee reports
Parliamentary
bulletin
(updated in August 1995)
