2. Address
Biblioteka Sejmowa
ul. Wiejska 4/6
00-902 Warszawa
Tel.: *(48)(22)6288545; 6942429
Fax: *(48)(22)6941778
Telex: 812544 SEJM PL
E-Mail: parlib@bs.sejm.gov.pl
Homepage: http://bib.sejm.gov.pl

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1919
Person in charge: Mr Dr.Wojciech KULISIEWICZ
Position or official title: Dyrektor
Number of library staff: 72
Number of professional librarians: 36
Number of secretarial and support staff: 20
Number of other staff: 16 (top management (3), computer specialists (2), press information specialists (3), archivists and museum staff (8))
Size of collection: 435.750
Number of annual accessions: 7.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 588.000 Zl (~ US$ 163.000)
Number of current periodicals: 790
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of periodicals which are currently indexed for articles: 35
Number of periodical articles indexed per year: 12.000
Number of current newspapers: 80
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library (90)
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Not by the library, by: Computer Centre of the Sejm Chancellery
Library in charge of the archival materials of the Parliament: Yes
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification system for subject indexing: Thesaurus and classification system
Automation of cataloguing: Yes
Is the automated library catalogue accessible as an online catalogue to outside users?: Yes
Clientele: Members, parliamentarians' personal staff, parliamentary staff; Government officials; journalists; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 2 (44)
Number of loans per year: 160.000
Reference services: 11.500
Current bibliographies: 2
Retrospective subject bibliographies: No
External database searches: 650
Analysis and research: Yes, by the Bureau of Research
Other special services: Media Resource Centre (video recordings of the Sejm sittings as well as chosen Polish TV programmes of political, social and economic character)
Right to deposit: all Sejm and Senate publications; Polish official publications
Depository library: UN with specialized organizations, namely UNIDO, ILO, WHO, FAO, IAEA, IMF, UNCTAD, UNEP; Council of Europe
Other special collections of the Library: Foreign parliamentary papers and official publications, Museum Department
Other special collections: Foreign parliamentary papers and official publications; Museum
Division; Social History Collectionadd
Any other information: On-line access to data bases of Chancellery, e.g. central register of legislative acts in force
IFLA membership: Yes

4. Publications published by the Library
Sejm i prawo w starych drukach Biblioteki Sejmowej : katalog. - Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, 1993
Catalogue of the Sejm Library's collection of old books
Ksiazki zagraniczne z zakresu prawa w Bibliotece Sejmoweij : nabytki z lat 1990 - 1993. - Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, 1994
Cumulated list of foreign accessions in law from 1990 - 1993
Bibliografia publikacji Sejmu, Senatu [...]
Quarterly. - Bibliography of publications of the Sejm, the Senate [...]. -
Published in Przeglad Sejmowy
Wykaz wazniejszych nabytków
Quarterly. - Selected list of new accessions
Tygodniowy przeglad prasy i audycji telewizyjnych
Weekly press review (based on press cuttings), as well as annotated list of current Polish TV programmes with the MPs' participation

5. Publications concerning the Library
Szymanowska, Zofia: Dzialalnosc Biblioteki Sejmowej w latach 1919 - 1939=The Diet Library : 1919 - 1939 // In: Rocznik biblioteki narodowej. - 16 (1980), s. 241 - 250
With English summary
Mezynski, Andrzej: Okupacyjne dzieje ksiegozbioru Biblioteki Sejmowej // In: Przeglad Sejmowy. - (1994),4, s. 188 - 200
The occupation history of the book collection of the Sejm Library
Gwizdz, Andrzej: The "Sejm Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej" and its Library // In: Parlament und Bibliothek. - München : Saur, 1986. - p. 225 - 232
ISBN 3-598-10634-3
Parliamentarism in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland : past and present / Karel Sosna, Endre Száva-Kováts, Andrzej Gwizdz // In: Soviet and East European parliamentary libraries at the dawn of the post-communist era. - Bonn, 1991. - p. 35 - 43
ISBN 3-89372-009-X
Sejm Library : guide. - Warszawa : Sejm Publishing Office, 1993
Also in Polish, French, and German

6. Parliamentary documents
Sprawozdanie stenograficzne z [...] posiedzenia Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
Verbatim record of the sittings of the Diet, including texts of interpellations and questions with answers to them, results of voting, etc. - The record is edited by the Chancellery of the Diet. - Cumulative subject and speakers indexes are published irregularly as separate issues
* Druk / Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
Printed papers covering texts of bills presented before the Diet, reports of parliamentary committees pertaining to bills, texts of reports and statements submitted to the Diet by the Government and individual Ministers and other documents edited by the President of the Diet and distributed among the Members of the Diet
* Diariusz Sejmowy
Preliminary, unauthorized verbatim report of the sittings and debates of the Diet. - Published the following day. - Includes also texts of passed bills and resolutions
Kronika Sejmowa / Kancelaria Sejmu, Biuro Informacyjne
Weekly chronicle covering the most important events which took place in the Diet, its committees, and the parliamentary clubs. - Includes also a summary of the results of the Diet's sittings as well as international chronicle in English. - Widely distributed to mass media as a form of press release
Regulamin Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : ujednolicony tekst uchwaly z dnia 30 lipca 1992 r. wedlug stanu prawnego na dzien 16 czerwca 1995 r. - Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, 1995
Standing orders of the Diet : uniform text of the resolution of the Sejm of July 30, 1992, updated to June 16, 1995
Informacja o dzialalnosci Sejmu : (19 wrzesnia 1993 r. - 30 czerwca 1995 r.) / Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, 2. kadencja
Cumulative directory of the Diet activities (covering current term of office), including statistical data, lists of passed and rejected bills, resolutions, etc., as well as deputies' interpellations and questions. - Includes also data on the activity of the Constitutional Tribunal and the Supreme Board of Control, as well as international co-operation of the Diet
Przewodnik / Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, 2. kadencja. - Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, 1994
Directory of the Diet, updated to January 1995, including biographic records of MPs, lists of members of parliamentary committees, clubs and groups, as well as some statistical data on MPs (age, sex, education, profession, etc.)
Biuletyn z posiedzenia [...] / Kancelaria Sejmu, Biuro Informacyjne
Bulletin including unauthorized reports of committee sittings. - Double numbering of individual issues, consecutively within given term of office of the Diet, as well as according to order (number) of sittings of each particular committee

(updated in November 1998)