Official name of the country: Republic of Singapore / Republik Singapura / Xinjiapo Gonghe-gno
Official languages: English, Malay, Chinese, Tamil

Official name of Parliament: Parliament of Singapore
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

2. Address
Parliament of Singapore
Parliament Library
Parliament House
1 High Street
Singapore 179429
Tel.: *(65)3325506
Fax: *(65)3325536

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1955
Person in charge: Ms Khoo Sait Poh
Position or official title: Librarian
Number of library staff: 3
Number of professional librarians: 1
Number of secretarial and support staff: 2
Size of collection (number of volumes): 21,000
Number of annual accessions: 500
Annual acquisitions budget: 60.000 S$ (~ US$ 43.000)
Number of current periodicals: 200
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: No
Number of current newspapers: 24
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
Clientele: Members, parliamentary staff; Government officials; participants of the Singapore Integrated Library System
Number of reading rooms: 3 (22)
Number of loans per year: 1.000
Reference services: yes
Current bibliographies: yes
Retrospective subject bibliographies: No
External database searches: yes
Analysis and research: yes
Right to deposit: No
Other special collections of the Library: Hansards collection: Australia, India, New Zealand, United Kingdom (1909 - )
IFLA membership: No

4. Publications published by the Library
Library accession list

6. Parliamentary documents
Parliamentary debates : official report
Votes and proceedings
Parliamentary papers
Order papers

(updated in February 1999)