Official names of Chambers: Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan / House of Representatives (2)
Member of the ASGP

2. Address
House of Representatives
Congressional Library
National Government Center
Diliman
Quezon City
Tel.: *(63)(2)9315966
Fax: *(63)(2)9315566

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1987
Person in charge: Ms Maria Fe S. Abeleda-Robles
Position or official title: Director
Number of library staff: 35
Number of professional librarians: 5
Number of research and subject analyst staff in the Library: 6
Number of secretarial and support staff: 19
Number of other staff: 5
Size of collection: 40,726
Number of annual accessions: 1,566
Annual acquisitions budget: 3,000,000 Pesos (~ US$ 125.000)
Number of current periodicals: 167
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of current newspapers: 22
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library (11)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Yes, by Publications and Editorial Division
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: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentarians' personal staff, parliamentary staff; Government officials; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 2 (68)
Number of loans per year: 30.000
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies: Yes
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: Yes, by the Reference and Research Bureau
Depository library: United Nations (partial depository)
Any other information: The Congressional Library is comprised of Legislative Library and the Legislative Archives; each division is headed by a Chief Legislative Staff Officer
IFLA membership: Yes

4. Publications published by the Library
Congressional Library bulletin
Quarterly

Compendium of Philippine laws. - 2 vols., 1989

Legislative Archives' Holdings Description and Arrangement, 1998

Legislative Archives' Inventory of Documents of Constitutional Bodies, 1998

Legislative Library Inventory Series

Roster of Philippine legislators : 1907 to 1987

5. Publications concerning the library:
Rules of the House of Representatives

6. Parliamentary documents
* Record of the House of Representatives
-* Journal of the House of Representatives
-* History of bills of resolutions / House of Representatives
* Rules of the House of Representatives
-* Acts and resolutions

(updated in December 1998)