Official name of the country:
República del Ecuador
(Republic of Ecuador)
Official language: Español
Official name of Parliament:
Congreso Nacional del Ecuador
(National Congress of Ecuador)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Congreso Nacional del Ecuador
Archivo-Biblioteca de la Función Legislativa
Piedrahita y Séis de Diciembre, Ofic. 121
Casilla 1101
Quito
Tel.: *(593)(2)507653 ext 238/9
Fax: *(593)(2)220933
Telex: 22788
E-mail:
cpolit@abfl.gov.ec
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1886
Person in charge: Sr. D. César
Alfonso Polit Villarroel
Position or official title: Jefe de
la Biblioteca
Number of library staff: 8
Number of professional librarians:
6
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 1
Number of other staff: 1
(restaurador)
Size of collection: 80.000
Number of annual accessions:
100
Annual acquisitions budget: 5.000.000
S/. (~ US$ 3.700)
Number of current periodicals:
105
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Sí, por la biblioteca
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 20
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 2.000
Number of current newspapers:
15
Press cuttings: Sí, por el
archivo (10)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
No
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: Sí
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Tesauro
Automation of cataloguing:
Sí
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
Sí
Clientele: Miembros, personal
administrativo del parlamento; funcionarios; abierta al
público
Number of reading rooms: 1 (50)
Number of loans per year:
66.000
Reference services: 20.000
Current bibliographies: 3
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches:
5.000
Analysis and research: Sí, por
la biblioteca
Other special services:
Análisis bibliográfico para la legislatura
Right to deposit: No
Depository library: Instituto
Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos
IFLA membership: No
4. Publications published by the Library
Servicios
publicarios
Mensual. - Servicio de alerta
Boletines de nuevos servicios y
adquisiciones
Publicación ocasional
6. Parliamentary documents
Diario de
debates de la
Legislatura
Anuario
legislativo
Informes anuales
de labores de la Presidencia y comisiones
(updated in September 1995)
