Official name of the country: Al-Jumhuriyah al-Yamaniyah
(Republic of Yemen)
Official language: Arabic

Official name of Parliament: Majlis al-Nuwab
(House of Representatives)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Member of the ASGP

2. Address
Majlis al-Nuwab
Maktaba
P.O. Box 623
San`a
Tel.: *(967)(1)276101/3; 276084
Fax: *(967)(1)274121

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1982
Person in charge: Mr Ali al-BARAWI
Position or official title: Mudir al-Maktaba
Number of library staff: 8
Number of research and subject analyst staff in the Library: 8
Size of collection: 6.000
Number of annual accessions: 500
Annual acquisitions budget: 100.000 Y.Rl. (~ US$ 2.000)
Number of current periodicals: 1
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: Yes, by the Library
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: Classsification system
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary staff
Number of reading rooms: 1 (30)
Reference services:. No
Current bibliographies:. No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:. No
External database searches:. No
Analysis and research:. No
IFLA membership: No

6. Parliamentary documents
Mahader al-Jelsat
Verbatim record of sittings

(updated in April 1996)