Official name of the country:
República del
Perú
(Republic of Peru)
Official languages: Spanish,
Quecchua, Aimará
Official name of Parliament:
Congreso de la República del
Perú
(Congress of the Republic of Peru)
-unicameral-
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
Member of the ASGP
2. Address
Biblioteca Cesar Vallejo del Congreso de la Republica
Library of Congress of the Republic of Peru
Palacio Legislativo
Plaza Bolivar s/n
Lima - 1
PERU
Tel.: *(51)(1) 3117528
Fax: *(51)(1) 3117528
E-mail:
ssoto@congreso.gob.pe
Homepage: http://www.congreso.gob.pe/biblio.htm
3. Details
on the Library
Year of foundation: 1822
Person in charge:Mr. Segundo Soto
Coronel
Position or official title:
Director
Number of library staff: 24
Number of professional librarians:
7
Number of research and subject analyst staff
in the Library: 2
Number of secretarial and support
staff: 11
Number of other staff: 4 (Translators
-Translation Service of the library)
Size of collection: 10.000
Number of annual accessions:
1.000
Annual aquisitions budget: 450.000
Nuevos Soles (~ US$ 134.000)
Number of current periodicals:
520
Periodicals indexed for relevant
articles: Yes, by external Data Bases
Number of indexed periodicals:
250
Number of current newspapers:
21
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: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue
accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?:
Yes
Clientele: Members of Parliament,
directives, assistants, employees and general public
Number of reading rooms: 3 (60)
Number of loans per year: 1200
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: 3
Retrospective subject bibliographies:
No
External database searches:
5.000
Analysis and research: Yes
Other special collections:
Audiovisual and Electronic Collections
Right to deposit: No
Depository library for: United
Nations
IFLA membership: Yes
4. Publications published by the Library
Boletín
bibliográfico
Alerta
Bibliografica
Alerta de Publicationes
Periodicas
5. Publications concerning the Library
CATALOGO DOCUMENTAL Y BIBLIOGRAFICO
DE Y SOBRE JUAN PABLO VISCARDO Y GUZMAN
6. Parliamentary documents
Diario de los debates
Reglamento interno del
Congreso
Actas del pleno y de la Comisión de Constitución
de las
Constituciones de 1979 y 1993
(updated in July 1999)