Official name of the country: République de Djibouti / Al-Jumhuriyah al-Jibutiyah
(Republic of Djibouti)
Official languages: Français, arabe

Official name of Parliament: Assemblée Nationale
(National Assembly)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

2. Address
Assemblée Nationale
Service de la Bibliothèque
B.P. 138
Djibouti
Tel.: *(253)35072
Fax: *(253)355503

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1977
Person in charge: Mme Aicha DABAR
Position or official title: Directrice de la Documentation
Number of library staff: 5
Number of professional librarians: 2
Number of research and subject analyst staff in the Library: 2
Number of secretarial and support staff: 1
Size of collection: 2.000
Number of annual accessions: 40
Annual acquisitions budget: 900.000 FD (~ US$ 5.000)
Number of current newspapers: 2
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Non
Library in charge of the archival materials of the Parliament: Oui
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification system for subject indexing: Système de classification
Automation of cataloguing: Non
Clientele: Membres, personnel administratif du parlement; personnes autorisées
Number of reading rooms: 1 (12)
Number of loans per year: 600
Reference services: Non
Current bibliographies: Non
Retrospective subject bibliographies: Non
External database searches: Non
External database searches: Non
Right to deposit: Non
IFLA membership: Non

5. Publications concerning the Library
Dawe, Peter St. John: Technical co-operation programme : the Djibouti
project // In: Inter-parliamentary bulletin. - 69 (1989),1, p. 28 - 35

6. Parliamentary documents
Assemblée nationale : législature 1992 - 1997. - 1994. - 40 p.

(updated in January 1996)