Official name of the country: República Democrática de Sao Tomé e Príncipe
(Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe)
Official language: Portugués

Official name of Parliament: Assembleia Nacional
(National Assembly)

2. Address
Assembleia Nacional
Biblioteca da Assembleia
Cx. P. 181
Sao Tomé
Tel.: *(239)(12)22835; 21927
Fax: *(239)(12)22835
Telex: 221 AN ST

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1994
Person in charge: Sra. Da Ligia Maria Duaresma de CEITA
Position or official title: Responsável da Biblioteca
Number of library staff: 2
Number of secretarial and support staff: 1
Size of collection: 1.000
Number of annual accessions: 600
Annual acquisitions budget: 1.000.000 Db (~ US$ 800)
Number of current periodicals: 80
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: No
Number of current newspapers: 5
Press cuttings: No
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?: No
Clientele: Miembros, personal administrativo del parlamento; funcionarios; investigadores
Number of reading rooms: 1
Number of loans per year: 50
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies: No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
IFLA membership: No

6. Parliamentary documents
Diário da Assembleia Nacional

(updated in January 1995)