Official name of the country: Repubblika ta' Malta / Republic of Malta
Official languages: Maltese, English

Official name of Parliament: Kamra tad-Deputati / House of Representatives
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Member of the ASGP

2. Address
Kamra tad-Deputati
Librerija tal-Parlament
Il-Palazz
Valletta
Tel.: *(356)222294 ext 227/8
Fax: *(356)242552
Telex: 1100 MOD MLT

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1921
Person in charge: Mr Raymond GRILLO
Position or official title: Librarian
Number of library staff: 1
Size of collection: 1.650
Number of current periodicals: 8
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: No
Number of current newspapers: 8
Press cuttings: No
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Yes, by the Indexing Section
Library in charge of the archival materials of the Parliament: Yes
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification system for subject indexing: Classification system
Automation of cataloguing: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary staff; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 2 (15)
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies: No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
Other special collections of the Library: Parliamentary documents of the Malta Council (since 1835), Melitensia
IFLA membership: No

5. Publications concerning the Library
Malta : the democratic crusade // In: The parliamentarian. - 76 (1995),2, 27 p.

6. Parliamentary documents
Debates, minutes, papers laid of the House of Representatives
Standing orders
Estimates & budgets
The Malta Government gazette

(updated in December 1994)