Official name of the country: Respublika Belarus'
(Republic of Belarus)
Official language: Belorusskiy

Official name of Parliament: Vyarkhouny Savet Respubliki Belarus'
(Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Member of the ASGP
There is no parliamentary library
Other library that provides services to Parliament: Library services are provided by:
Prezidentskaya Biblioteka
Dom Pravitel'stva
vul. Savetskaya, 11
220010 Minsk
Tel.: *(375)(17)2226627
Fax: *(375)(17)2201209
E-mail: nsa@prezlib.belpak.minsk.by
(for more information _ SECTION 3)

2. Address
»Vyarkhouny Savet Respubliki Belarus'
vul. K. Marksa, 38
220016 Minsk
Tel.: *(375)(17)2293313; 2296004; 2226568; 2276872
Fax: *(375)(17)2273784

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation:: 1933
Person in charge: G-n Eduard Nikolayevich TSYGANKOV
Position or official title: Direktor
Number of library staff: 85
Number of professional librarians: 70
Number of research and subject analyst staff in the Library: 3
Number of secretarial and support staff: 6
Number of other staff: 6 (uborshik pomesheniy (4), bukhgalter (2))
Size of collection: 1.500.000
Number of annual accessions: 20.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 1.169.372.000 BYR (~ US$ 100.000)
Number of current periodicals: 418
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: Da, Bibliotekoy
Number of periodicals which are currently indexed for articles: 360
Number of periodical articles indexed per year: 145.000
Number of current newspapers: 152
Press cuttings: Da, Bibliotekoy (82)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Da, Bibliotekoy
Library in charge of the archival materials of the Parliament: Da
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification system for subject indexing: Tezaurus
Automation of cataloguing: Da
Clientele: Chleny parlamenta, sotrudniki Apparata parlamenta; administratsyya Prezidenta, kabinet Ministrov, Konstitutsyonniy Sud
Number of reading rooms: 3 (80)
Number of loans per year: 500.000
Reference services: 27.000
Current bibliographies: 5
Retrospective subject bibliographies: 2
External database searches: Da
Analysis and research: Da, Issledovatel'skoy slushboy
Right to deposit: Da
Depository library: Depozitariy Mirovogo Banka pekonstruktsyi i razvitiya
Other special collections of the Library: Redkie i tsennye izdaniya
IFLA membership: Net

4. Publications published by the Library
Derzhava i zakon
Gosudarstvo i zakon
Na belorusskom i russkom yazykakh

5. Publications concerning the Library
Bogdanovich N.: Informatsionno-bibliograficheskoye obsluzhivanie pravitelstvennykh organov Respubliki Belarus' // In: Biblioteka v novoy politicheskoy situatsyi. - Minsk, 1995. - s. 5 - 15
Na russkom yazyke
Gerasimov V.N.: Biblioteka - bibliograficheskoye obsluzhivanie po problemam gosudarstva i zakona v Respublike Belarus' : standart informationnykh trebovaniy // In: Biblioteka i obshestvo. - Minsk, 1993. - s. 122 - 135
Na russkom yazyke
Yudo, Sofia Vasil'yevna: Library and bibliographic service for highest and local state control and Government bodies of the Byelorussian SSR // In: Soviet and East European parliamentary libraries at the dawn of the post-communist era. - Bonn : Deutscher Bundestag, Wissenschaftliche Dienste, 1991. - S. 153 - 158
ISBN 3-89372-009-X

6. Parliamentary documents
Byuleteni (stenagrafichniya spravazdachy) sesiy Vyarkhounaga Saveta Respubliki Belarus'
Izdayetsya regularno v techenii parlamentskikh zasedaniy. - Verbatim report of sessions of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus
Vedamaszi Vyarkhounaga Saveta Respubliki Belarus'
Bulletin

(updated in April 1996)