Libraries in Brazil
Official name of the country: Brazil
Federation
Official language(s): Portuguese
Official name of Parliament in original language:
Congresso Nacional
Official name of Parliament in English
translation: National Congress
Bicameral
Official name of Chamber:
Câmara dos Deputados
(Chamber of Deputies)
Name of Parliamentary Library - In original
language: Centro de Documentação e
Informação - Cedi
Name of Parliamentary Library - In English
translation: Center for Documentation and Information -
Cedi
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Centro de Documentação e Informação
Cedi
Câmara dos Deputados
Anexo II Praça dos Três Poderes
Brasília
DF 70160-900 Brazil
Tel.: *(55)(61)3216-5777
Fax: *(55)(61)3216-5757
E-Mail:
ceate.cedi@camara.gov.br
Homepage:
http://www2.camara.gov.br/
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1866
Person in charge: Mr Adolfo
Furtado
Position or official title: Diretor
do Centro de Documentação e
Informação
Number of library staff: 245
Number of professional librarians:
13
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 6
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 27
Number of other staff: 24
(funcionarios de nivel superior)
Size of collection: 400.000
Number of annual accessions:
4.100
Number of current periodicals:
4.000
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Sí, por la biblioteca
Number of periodicals which are currently
indexed for articles: 44
Number of periodical articles indexed per
year: 1.750
Number of current newspapers:.
4.000
Press cuttings: Sí, por la
biblioteca
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Sí, por la biblioteca
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Thesaurus and classification
system
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 aposentados;
jornalistas credenciados
Number of reading rooms: 6
Number of loans per year:
11.460
Reference services: 14.400
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
Sí
External database searches:
Sí
Analysis and research: No
Right to deposit: Publicaciones de la
Câmara dos Deputados
Depository library: Naciones
Unidas
IFLA membership: Sí
4. Publications published by the Library
Livros
novos : listagem mensual
Sumário
de periódicos
Mensual
5. Publications concerning the Library
Centro de
Documentaçao e Informaçao : guia do
usuário. - Brasília : Câmara dos Deputados,
Coordinaçao de Publicaçoes, 1993
6. Parliamentary documents
* Anais da
Câmara dos Deputados
* Perfis
parlamentares
-* Diário do Congresso Nacional
Seçao 1. Câmara dos
Deputados
* Separatas dos
discursos parlamentares
* Deputados
Brasileiros : repertório biográfico
* Legislaçao interna da Câmara dos
Deputados
* Regimento
interno da Câmara dos Deputados
* Estudos
legislativos
* Câmara
informa
(updated in October 2007)
