Official name of the country: Al-Mamlakah al-`Arabiyah al-Sa`udiyah
(Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Official language: Arabic

Official name of Parliament: Majlis ash Shura
(Consultative Council)

2. Address
Majlis ash Shura
Maktaba
P.O. Box 63393
Riyadh 11516
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Code No. 11212
Tel.: *(966)(1)4821666
Fax: *(966)(1)4881496
Telex: 407999 SHURA SJ

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation:: 1993
Person in charge: Mr Abdulrahman al-SARRA
Position or official title: Mudir al-Maktaba
Number of library staff: 16
Number of professional librarians: 4
Number of secretarial and support staff: 8
Number of other staff: 4
Size of collection: 13.000
Number of annual accessions: 3.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 200.000 S.Rl. (~ US$ 53.000)
Number of current periodicals: 160
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: Yes, by the Library
Number of current newspapers: 37
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library
Indexing of Parliamentary Papers: Yes, by the Library
Library in charge of the archival materials of the Parliament: Yes
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?: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary staff
Number of reading rooms: 20 (70)
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: Yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies: Yes
External database searches: Yes
Analysis and research: No
IFLA membership: Yes

5. Publications concerning the Library
Bulloch, John: The Shura Council in Saudi Arabia. - London, 1995. - 118 p.
ISBN 1-871415-67-5

6. Parliamentary documents
* Majlis ash Shura. - Ar-Riyadh
In Arabic

(updated in February 1995)