Official name of the country: Tanzania
Unitary state
Official language: Kiswahili
Business language: English
Official name of Parliament: Bunge la jamhuri ya muugano
wa tanzania
(parliament of the united state of tanzania)
bicameral
Official name of Chamber: chamwino dodoma
Related Libraries: One Library for all Chambers
Does any other library provide services to Parliament instead? No
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Member of the ASGP
For the House of Representatives of Zanzibar as a self-governing part of the United Republic of Tanzania see World directory of parliamentary libraries of federated states and autonomous territories
2. Address
Maktaba ya Bunge
P.O. Box 941
Dodoma
Tel.: *(225)(61)2276/5
Fax: *(225)(61)24018
Telex: 53092 BUNGE TZ
E-Mail:
bunge@intafrica.com
Homepage:
www.parliament.go.tz
3. Details on the
Library
Year of foundation: 1961
Person in charge: Mr Philip Adolf Ntomola
Position or official title: mkuu wa maktaba
Number of library staff: 5
Number of professional librarians: 3
Number of secretarial and support staff: 1
Size of collection: 5.700
Number of annual accessions: 100
Annual acquisitions budget: 28.000.000 T Sh (~ US$
48.000)
Number of current periodicals: 15
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: Yes, by
the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently indexed for
articles: 10
Number of articles: 30
Number of current newspapers: 15
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library (70)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Yes
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: civilian member of parliament and other
goverment officials
Number of reading rooms: 4 (50)
Number of loans per year: 60
Reference services: 700
Current bibliographies: Yes (40)
Retrospective subject bibliographies:. No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Yes
Right to deposit: No
Any other information: No
IFLA membership: No
6. Parliamentary
documents
Parliamentary debates : Hansard
In KiSwahili
Standing orders
In KiSwahili
(updated in April 2005)