Official name of the country:
Elliniki Dimokratia
(Hellenic Republic)
Official language: Greek
Official name of Parliament:
Vouli ton Ellinon
(Greek Chamber of Deputies)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Vouli ton Ellinon
Vivliothiki tis Voulis ton Ellinon
Megaron Voulis
10021 Athinai
Tel.: *(30)(1)3235030
Fax: *(30)(1)3236072; 3310013
Telex: 219890 BE GR
E-mail:
xristo@artemis.parl.ariadne-t.gr
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1845
Person in charge: Mr Panayotis Ph.
Christopoulos
Position or official title:
Diefthintis tis Vivliothikis
Number of library staff: 91
Number of professional librarians:
10
Size of collection: 1.060.000
Number of annual accessions:
5.000
Annual acquisitions budget:
159.000.000 Drch. (~ US$ 657.000)
Number of current periodicals:
320
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: No
Number of current newspapers:
500
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Press
Clipping Service
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers:
Yes, by the Library
Library in charge of the archival materials
of the Parliament: No
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Thesaurus and classification
system
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
Yes
Clientele: Members, parliamentary
staff; open to the public
Number of reading rooms: 5
(180)
Number of loans per year: 3.500
Reference services: 2.500
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches: 500
Right to deposit: Yes
Depository library: United Nations
and various other organizations
Any other information: Manuscript and
rare book collection, newspaper library
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
Archeia tis Ellinikis
Paliggenesias. - Athinai
T. 1 - 15. - 1857 - 1994
Katalogos Epsimeridon : 1790 -
1990
5. Publications concerning the Library
Christopoulos, Panayotis Ph.:
I vivliothiki tis Voulis ton
Ellinon : 1946 - 1970. - Athinai, 1970
Christopoulos, Panayotis Ph.:
The Library of Parliament in Athens with
special reference to its services for microfilming
newspapers // In: Parlament und Bibliothek. - München :
Saur, 1986. - p. 203 - 216
Christopoulos, Panayotis Ph.:
Greek newspaper and their microfilming in
the Microform Unit of the Greek Parliament // In:
Proceedings of the Symposium held in London, August 12 - 15, 1987,
vol. II, p. 280 - 284
Christopoulos, Panayotis Ph.:
The Greek parliament and its
library // In: Parliamentary libraries in the Eastern
Mediterranean- Black Sea Crescent : papers / 11th International
Conference of Parliamentary Libraries, Ankara, 17 - 18 August
1995
6. Parliamentary documents
* Praktika ton Synedriaseon tis
Voulis
* To Syntagma tis
Ellados
* Kanonismos tis Voulis
Ektheseis epi ton psiphisthenton
nomoschedion
Synkentrotiko Deltio aparaseon
Voulis, psiphisthenton nomoschedion kai protaseon nomon
(updated in December 1995)