Official name of the country: Dawlat Qatar
(State of Qatar)
Official language: Arabic

Official name of Parliament: Majlis al-Shura
(Advisory Council)

2. Address
Majlis al-Shura
Maktaba
P.O. Box 2034
Doha
Tel.: *(974)413222; 415101
Fax: *(974)425526

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1972
Person in charge: Mr Nasarullah Abdullah al-HAJ
Number of library staff: 2
Number of professional librarians: 1
Size of collection: 6.000
Number of annual accessions: 100
Annual acquisitions budget: 25.000 QR (~ US$ 6.850)
Number of current periodicals: 10
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of current newspapers: 5
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
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, parliamentary staff; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 2 (30)
Number of loans per year: 250
Reference services: 10
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies: Yes
External database searches: 10
Analysis and research: Yes, by the Library and by the Legal Dept.
IFLA membership: No

6. Parliamentary documents
Mahader al-Jelsat
Verbatim report of sittings

(updated in January 1996)