Official name of the country: Ceská republika
(Czech Republic)
Official language: Czech

Official name of Parliament: Parlament Ceské republiky
(Parliament of the Czech Republic)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
-Bicameral -
Official names of Chambers: Senát (1)
(Senate)
Poslanecká snemovna (2)
(Chamber of Deputies)
Member of the ASGP
The Library serves both chambers of the Parliament

2. Address
Parlament Ceské republiky
Parlamentní knihovna
Snemovní 4
118 26 Praha 1 - Malá Strana
Tel.: *(420)(2)539411; 24592349
Fax: *(420)(2)539406
E-mail: sosna@psp.cz

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1857
Person in charge: Dr. Karel SOSNA
Position or official title: Øeditel Parlamentní knihovny
Number of library staff: 14
Number of professional librarians: 4
Number of secretarial and support staff: 2
Number of other staff: 8 (information specialists)
Size of collection: 200.000
Number of annual accessions: 1.500
Annual acquisitions budget: 2.500.000 Kc (~ US$ 85.000)
Number of current periodicals: 300
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: Yes, by National Library
Number of periodicals which are currently indexed for articles: 80
Number of periodical articles indexed per year: 17.000
Number of current newspapers: 40
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Press Dept. (25)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Yes
Library in charge of the archival materials of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification system for subject indexing: Thesaurus
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?: Yes
Clientele: Members, Senators and their personal staff, parliamentary staff, authorized persons who require works held only by the Library
Number of reading rooms: 3 (25)
Number of loans per year: 5.500
Reference services: 14.800
Current bibliographies: 3
Retrospective subject bibliographies: 20
External database searches: 50
Analysis and research: Yes, by the Parliamentary Institute of the Office of the Chamber of Deputies
Right to deposit: No, but the Parliamentary Library has to be notified of all new publications
Depository library: United Nations
Other special collections of the Library: Special collection of EU law
IFLA membership: Yes

4. Publications published by the Library
Informacní listy Parlamentní knihovny
Information sheets of the Parliamentary Library
* Prehled zákonodárné cinnosti Parlamentu Ceské republiky
Survey of legislative activities of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
Novinky Parlamentní knihovny
List of acquisitions
Current contents
Správní právo ; ústavní právo
Administrative law ; constitutional law
Zahranicní politika ; mezinárodní vztahy
Foreign policy ; international relations
Vojenství ; bezpecnost
Military and security policy
Ekonomika ; finance
Economics ; finance
Veda ; kultura ; skolství a mládez ; televychova
Science ; culture ; schools and education ; sports
Lidská práva ; mensiny
Human rights ; minorities
Sociální a zdravotní politika
Social and health policy
Zivotní prostredí
Environment

5. Publications concerning the Library
Parliamentarism in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland : past and present / Karel Sosna, Endre Száva-Kováts, Andrzej Gwizdz // In: Soviet and East European parliamentary libraries at the dawn of the post-communist era. - Bonn, 1991. - p. 35 - 93
ISBN 3-89372-009-X
Sosna, Karel: Knihovna Federálního shromázdení. // In: Informatika
I' 91. - 33 (1991),11, s. 308 - 310
Library of the Federal Assembly
Sosna, Karel: Nekolik poznámek k transformaci byvalé knihovny Federálního shromázdení // In: Informatika I' 94. - 36 (1994),3,
s. 73 - 74
Some remarks to the transformation of the former Library of the Federal Assembly
Sosna, Karel: Zdenek Václav Tobolka a knihovna Národního shromázdení predválecné Ceskoslovenské republiky // In: Informatika
I' 94. - 36 (1994),7/8, s. 198 - 202
Zdenek Václav Tobolka and the Library of the National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic before the Second World War
Sosna, Karel: Transformation of the Czechoslovak Parliamentary Library // In: INSPEL. - 29 (1995),2, p. 89 - 91
The parliamentary library
Information folder

Samek, Tomas: The Eurovoc Project in the Czech Parliamentary Library//In: Jirankova, J.(Ed): Seminar EUROVOC '95: Praha, 27.-28.6.1995:proceedings of the Seminar for EUROVOC Thesaurus Users from Central and Eastern European Parliamentary Libraries and Information Institutions,- Praha: Office of the Chamber of Deputies, 1995.- s. 81-85

Sosna, Karel: Bude Parlamentni knihovna Ceske republiky otevrena 24 hodin denne? K soucasnemu stavu elektronizace informacnich sluzeb pro poslance a senatory Parlamentu CR//In: Infocus.-2(1996), 11/12, s.210-212

Sosna, Karel: New Developments in Library Services and Technology: Modernization of Information Services of the Parliamentary Library of the Czech Republic//In: Booklet 1: Division of General Research Libraries: 63rd IFLA General Conference: August 31-September 5, 1997. Copenhagen:IFLA, 1997, p.18-23

Sosna, Karel: Parlamentni knihovna Ceske republiky: Elektronizace informacnich sluzeb//In: Parlamentni zpravodaj.-4 (1998), 14/15, s.346-349

Vrbikova, Hana: Projekt Elektronicke knihovny v Ceskem Parlamentu//In: Ikarus.-2(1998), 72nd election period.-List of Members, parliamentary groups, etc.

3. volebni obdobi.-1998

3rd election period.-List of Members, parliamentary groups, etc.

Senat

*Parlament Ceske republiky, Senat

Parliament of the Czech Republic, Senat

Prozatimni jednaci rad Senatu.-1998.-216 s.

Temporary standing orders

6. Parliamentary documents
Parlament
* Tisky. - 1918 -
Printed papers and reports
Tesnopisecké zprávy ... - 1918 -
Verbatim report
Poslanecká snemovna
* Parlament Ceské republiky, Poslanecká snemovna.
Parliament of the Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies
1. volební období. - 1994
1st election period. - List of Members, parliamentary groups, etc.
Jednací rád Poslanecké snemovny. - 1995. - 128 s.
Standing orders

(updated in February 1999)