Official name of the country: Rzeczpospolita Polska (Republic of Poland)
Official language: Polish

Official name of Parliament:
(There are two parliamentary bodies, the Sejm and Senate, for which there is no common designation, nor do they have a common suprastructure, the only exception being the Sejm Library which, though financed entirely by the Sejm, serves the Sejm and the Senate on equal terms, whereas in the Senate the Research and Analysis Office provides a Quick Reference Unit)

Official names of Chambers: Senat Rzeczypospolitej Polskie j (1)
(Senate)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Member of the ASGP

2. Address
Senat RP
Biuro Studiów i Analiz
Kancelarii Senatu
ul. Wiejska 6
00-902 Warszawa
Tel.: *(48)(22)6942059
Fax: *(48)(22)6942049
E-mail: nawrocka@nw.senat.gov.pl; michalow@nw.senat.gov.pl

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1991
Person in charge: Mr Jacek MICHALOWSKI
Position or official title: Dyrektor
Number of library staff: 42
Number of professional librarians: 5
Number of research and subject analyst staff in the Library: 22
Number of secretarial and support staff: 5
Number of other staff: 10 (reference specialists (6), archivists (3), computer specialists (1))
Size of collection: 2.500
Number of annual accessions: 600
Annual acquisitions budget: 200.000 Zl (~ US$ 85.000)
Number of current periodicals: 260
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: Yes, by the Research and Analysis Office
Number of periodicals which are currently indexed for articles: 47
Number of periodical articles indexed per year: 60.000
Number of current newspapers: 15
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Research and Analysis Office (7)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Yes, by the Information Office of the Senate Chancellery
Library in charge of the archival materials of the Parliament: Yes
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification system for subject indexing: Thesaurus
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentarians' personal staff, parliamentary staff
Reference services: 1.500
Current bibliographies: 7
Retrospective subject bibliographies: 1
External database searches: 170
Analysis and research: Yes, by the Research and Analysis Office
Other special collections of the Library: European Union Reference Library
Any other information: All data refer to the Research and Analysis Office as a whole
IFLA membership: Yes

4. Publications published by the Library
Sygnaly prasy Polskiej
Weekly. - Review of the Polish press
Sygnaly prasy zagranicznej
Biweekly. - Review of the foreign press
Zeszyty Biura Studiów i Analiz
Irregular. - Papers of the Research and Analysis Office
Tematyczny spis opracowan
Irregular. - Subject bibliographies
Spis zeszytów Biura Studiów i Analiz
Irregular. - List of papers of the Research and Analysis Office

5. Publications concerning the Library
Overview of services and functions of the Research and Analysis Office. - 1993
Chancellery of the Senate of Poland : organization and functions. - 1993

6. Parliamentary documents
* Sprawozdanie stenograficzne z [...] posiedzenia Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
Verbatim record of the sittings of the Senate. - Contains a full review of everything that has been said during the sitting of the Senate. - Printed under the supervision of the President of the Senate, and official statement of the proceedings of the Senate's debates. - Each issue contains a report from one sitting. - The sittings are sequentially numbered within each term of office
* Druki / Senat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
Printed Papers. - Contains bills introduced for the debates of the Diet as a law-making initiative of the Senate, as well as resolutions defining the position of the Senate in the matters concerning the acts resolved by the Diet. - Sequentially numbered within one term of office and published under supervision of the Senate's President
Diariusz Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
Information about the activities of the Senate, the Senators, and the agencies of the Senate

(updated in December 1995)