Official name of the country: Papua New Guinea / Gau Hedinarai ai Papua-
Matamata Guinea / Papua-Niugini
Official languages: English, Hari-Motu, Pidgin

Official name of Parliament: National Parliament of Papua New Guinea /
Bese Taubadadia Hegogo
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Member of the ASGP

2. Address
PNG National Parliament
Library
Parliament House
Waigani
Port Moresby, NCD
Tel.: *(675)277476/7
Fax: *(675)277480
Telex: NE 23325
E-Mail: parllib@datec.com.pg

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1969
Person in charge: Mr Elesallah MATATIER
Position or official title: Parliamentary Librarian
Number of library staff: 6
Number of professional librarians: 2
Number of secretarial and support staff: 4
Size of collection: 14.000
Number of annual accessions: 500
Annual acquisitions budget: 30.000 kina (~ US$ 39.000)
Number of current periodicals: 120
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: No
Number of current newspapers: 7
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library (4)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Yes, by the Bills and Papers Division
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: Yes
Clientele: Members, parliamentarians' personal staff, parliamentary staff; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 1 (20)
Number of loans per year: 600
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies: No
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: Yes, by the Research and Legal Sections
Other special services: Distribution centre for all parliamentary documents
Right to deposit: No
Depository library: No
Other special collections of the Library: Parliamentary matters received from other countries
Any other information: The Library is part of the Research and Information Division which also comprises the Research Section (1 staff)
IFLA membership: No

4. Publications published by the Library
Acquisition list
A quarterly listing of newly acquired books. - Arranged alphabetically by subject. - Each entry contains a bibliographic description
Members guide to the services provided by the Library
Information papers
Prepared for Members of Parliament by the Legal and Research Sections

5. Publications concerning the Library
White, H.L.: Report to the Speaker and Library Committee of the House of Assembly on the immediate needs of Members for library services. - 1965
Corfiled, Graeme: Specialized services for the House of Assembly / by Graeme Corfiled and John Ley // In: Australian External Territories. - 12 (1972),2, p. 27 - 33

6. Parliamentary documents
Daily hansard
The official record of what is said in Parliament. - This edition appears the morning after each day's session and is styled proof, i.e. minor corrections may subsequently be made. - Each daily issue is dated and numbered according to the number of the sitting day. - It also has a Contents list. - Because there is no index to the Hansard, the Library indexes the contents until the Debates are published
* Minutes of proceedings
Official record of the proceedings of the session. - Appears generally the morning after each day's session. - Printed on blue paper, each issue is dated and given a running number. - The annual issues are then bound into one volume together with Indexes to the minutes of proceedings, general motions, bills and papers presented during that year and term of Parliament. - Each Index includes the proceedings. - It also carries lists of Ministers, officers, and committees for that particular year as well as record of Members' roll and attendances for that term of Parliament
* Notice paper
The official paper used by the Clerk of Parliament to list the business items which the Members have introduced for discussion in Parliament and which have not been disposed of by Parliament. - This appears daily and is circulated a day ahead of the sessions, a type of an agenda for each session. - The Notice paper accompanies the Daily hansard. - Printed on yellow paper, each issue is dated and given a running number

* Question paper
Contains notices of questions for written answers. - Those appearing for the first time are prefixed with an asterisk. - Issued on the first sitting day of each week, in addition to new notifications, all notices of questions that remain unanswered. - Printed on green paper, each issue is dated and given a running number
* Parliamentary debates
Hard-bound edition of the Hansard, issued in several volumes per parliamentary session. - Each volume contains a Table of Contents and the subject matter is printed on the bottom of each page. - It carries a list of Members of Parliament and the province they represent, as well as a listing of Ministers and officers of Parliament. - Each volume is dated and numbered according to the volume and series number, number of session and number of the Parliament. - Each volume number changes after each parliamentary term, which is five years
- Papers and reports
Covers all documents presented to Parliament. - The documents include annual reports of Government bodies, committee reports, commissions of inquiry, special study groups, conference reports, overseas trips reports and other studies. - Each paper is published individually under its own title and assigned a running number according to its presentation in Parliament
Standing orders of the National Parliament. - Waigani : National Parliament, 1988
Members of Parliament : ... / published by PNG Office of Information

(updated in December 1998)