World Directory of National Parliamentary Libraries - Uganda
Official name of the country:
Uganda, Unitary state
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Parliament of Uganda
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Parliament of Uganda
P.O. Box 7178
Kampala
Tel.: *(256)(41)347440 ext. 154
Fax: *(256)(41)235461
EMail:
irugambwa@parliament.go.ug
Hompage:
www.parliament.go.ug
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1999
Person in charge: Mr Innocent
Rugambwa
Number of library staff: 6
Number of professional librarians:
4
Specificaion: Research is a separate
section comprising 10 speciallists in the same department of
Library, Research and Information Services
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 1
Number of other staff: 1
Spezification: The Library has an
attendandt
Size of collection (numer of
volumes): 16.720
Number of annual accessions (number of
volumes): Approx. 1.300
Annual acquistions budget - in national
currency: 36.000.000
Annual qcquistions budget - designaton of
currency: Schillings
Annual acquistions budget - Equivalent in
US$: 1.830
Number of current periodicals:
2
Analythical cataloguing: No
Number of current newspapers: 7
Press cuttings: Yes, by the
Library
Number of newspaüpers an press services
used for clipping: 2
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
No
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: No
Automation of cataloguing: No
Clientele: Members of Parliament,
Staff of Parliament, The Executive, Approved requests from the
public
Number of reading rooms: 1 (52
seats)
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: No
Subject bibliographies: No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
Other special services: Internet and
E-Mail services for Members and Staff of Parliament
Depository library for: Government
Publications
Other special collections:
CD-Roms
Any other informations: IT services
are offered by the IT section while Research Services are offered
by the Research Section both of which fall under the Department of
Library, Research and Information Services. Parliamentary
proceedings are published by the Department of Hansard.
IFLA membership: No
4. Publications published by the Library
The Library Brochure
5. Publications concerning the library
The Library Brochure
6. Parliamentary documents
The Library has a richt collection of Parliamentary papers, reports
and debates, standing orders, etc.
(updated in Oktober 2002)