Official name of the country: Republic of Ghana
Official language: English

Official name of Parliament: Parliament
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Member of the ASGP

2. Address
Parliament
Parliament Library and Information Service
Office of Parliament
Parliament House
Accra
Tel.: *(233)(21)664181/4 ext 2017
Fax: *(233)(21)664652

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1957
Person in charge: Mr Charles M. BROWN
Position or official title: Librarian
Number of library staff: 2
Number of professional librarians: 2
Size of collection: 1.600
Annual acquisitions budget: 22.500.000 Cedi (~ US$ 18.000)
Number of current periodicals: 20
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: No
Number of current newspapers: 8
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Yes, by the Official Report (Hansard) Dept.
Library in charge of the archival materials of the Parliament: Yes
Automation of cataloguing: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary staff; Government officials; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 1 (10)
Reference services: Yes
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
IFLA membership: No

4. Publications published by the Library
The parliamentary library and information service bulletin

6. Parliamentary documents
* Parliamentary debates : Hansard
Official report
Agenda
Bills and motions
Questions and answers
Order paper
Votes and proceedings
* Summaries of sessions
Standing orders

(updated in March 1996)