Official name of the country: Ribaberikin Kiribati / Republic of Kiribati
Official languages: I-Kiribati, English

Official name of Parliament: Maneaba ni Maungatabu / House of Assembly

2. Address
Maneaba ni Maungatabu
Tabo n Tangoboki
P.O. Box 52
Bairiki
Tarawa
Tel.: *(686)21053; 21084 ext 17
Fax: *(686)21278

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1986
Person in charge: Ms Kamatara BUNAUA
Position or official title: Clerical Librarian
Number of library staff: 1
Size of collection: 400
Number of annual accessions: 40
Annual acquisitions budget: 1.000 A$ (~ US$ 700)
Number of current periodicals: 15
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: No
Number of current newspapers: 3
Press cuttings: No
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: Classification system
Automation of cataloguing: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary staff
Number of reading rooms: 1 (15)
Number of loans per year: 40
Reference services: 50
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies: No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
IFLA membership: No

5. Publications concerning the Library
Library Committee report. - 1986

6. Parliamentary documents
Parliamentary debates
Produced after every sitting day. - Contains text of all speeches of that day
Parliamentary official report
Bound edition volume of the proceedings of all sittings in a meeting of Parliament. - Parliament holds meetings of two to three weeks duration excluding weekends
* Notice papers
* Bills and acts
Order paper
- Parliamentary committees report
Daily minutes
Statements
Parliamentary journal
* Director of Audit reports on Government accounts, Government Statutory Corporation and owned companies

(updated in February 1996)