Official name of the country: Dawlat al-Kuwayt
(State of Kuwait)
Official language: Arabic

Official name of Parliament: Majlis al-'Ummah al-Kuwayti
(Kuwait National Assembly)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Member of the ASGP

2. Address
Majlis al-'Ummah al-Kuwayti
Maktaba
P.O.Box 716
Safat
13008 Kuwait
Tel.: *(965)2455002
Fax: *(965)2455809

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1961
Person in charge: Mr Jasem al-KENDARI
Position or official title: Amin al-Maktaba
Number of library staff: 4
Number of professional librarians: 3
Number of other staff: 1
Size of collection: 12.000
Number of annual accessions: 3.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 20.000 KD (~ US$ 6.000)
Number of current periodicals: 17
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: No
Number of current newspapers: 22
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Yes, by the Library
Library in charge of the archival materials of the Parliament: No
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?: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary staff; Government officials; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 2 (65)
Number of loans per year: 800
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: 48
Retrospective subject bibliographies: Yes
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Yes
IFLA membership: No

6. Parliamentary documents
NO BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA SUPPLIED

(updated in January 1996)