World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries of Federated States and Autonomous Territories- Australia
Libraries in Australia
Official name of the federated
state/autonomous territory: Australian Capital Territory
Territory
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
ACT Legislative Assembly
- Unicameral -
Address
ACT Legislative Assembly Library
1 Constitution Avenue
G.P.O. Box 158
Canberra ACT 2601
Tel. (61)(6)2050390
Fax (61)(6)2050392
Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1989
Person in charge: Ms Margaret
McGeehan,
Position or official title: Librarian
in charge
Number of library staff: 4,
Number
of professional librarians: 2,
Number
of other staff in the Library: 2
Size of collection: 1.500
Annual acquisitions budget: 20.000
A$
Number of current periodicals: 30
titles
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Thesaurus
Restricted to members of parliament:
No,
Who else may use library: staff of
Members and the Secretariat, staff of Assembly
Any other information: The library of
the ACT Legislative Assembly is co-located with the library of the
ACT Government Service and shares many of the resources available
(16.000 volumes, 2.000 periodicial titles)
IFLA membership: No
Publications published by the
Library
Current awareness
service
New books acquired by the
Library
Parliamentary Papers
NOT ISSUED