Official name of the country: Islami Jamhuriya-e-Pakistan / Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Official languages: Urdu, English

Official name of Parliament:* Majlis-e-Shoora / Parliament
-Bicameral -
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Official names of Chambers: Senate (1)
Member of the ASGP

2. Address
The Senate of Pakistan
Senate Library
Parliament House
Constitution Avenue
Islamabad
Tel.: *(92)(51)810431 ext 2317; 2368
Fax: *(92)(51)826417
Telex: 54475 Senat PK

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1973
Person in charge: Mr Muhammad Naim ul Vakil
Position or official title: Librarian
Number of library staff: 5
Number of professional librarians: 2
Number of secretarial and support staff: 3
Size of collection: 6.500
Number of annual accessions: 300
Annual acquisitions budget: 400.000 Rs (~ US$ 13.000)
Number of current periodicals: 8
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently indexed for articles: 8
Number of current newspapers: 12
Press cuttings: Yes, by PR Dept. and Research Wing
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Yes, by the Library
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
Reference services: 500
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies: No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Yes, by PR Dept. and Research Wing
IFLA membership: No

4. Publications published by the Library
Senate news
Published in collaboration with the Research Wing

6. Parliamentary documents
Debates of the Senate
Full text of speeches with full text of other material, e.g. questions asked and answered, Ministerial statements, etc. - Published on a daily basis, each daily issue being dated and numbered according to the number of the sitting day. - Also contains a Table of Contents
Rules of procedure and conduct of business in the Senate of Pakistan. - Islamabad : Printing Corporation of Pakistan Press, 1973. - 71 p.
(last update: January 1994)