Official name of the country: Sri Lanka Prajatantrika Samajawadi Janarajaya / Ilangai Jananayage
Socialisak Kudiarasu
(The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka)
Official languages: Sinhala, Tamil
Link language: English

Official name of Parliament: Sri Lanka Prajatantrika Samajawadi Janarajaye Parlimentuwa
(Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Member of the ASGP

2. Address
Sri Lanka Prajatantrika Samajawadi Janarajaye Parlimentuwa
Parlimentu Pustakalaya
Parliament House
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte
Tel.: *(94)(1)864483/6; 864100 ext 6460
Fax: *(94)(1)864227

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1927
Person in charge: Mr Neththasinghe Mudiyanselage Chandra THILAKARATHNE
Position or official title: Parlimentuwe Pusthakalayadhipathi
Number of library staff: 14
Number of professional librarians: 3
Number of research and subject analyst staff in the Library: 2
Number of secretarial and support staff: 6
Number of other staff: 3 (parliamentary services assistants)
Size of collection: 33.000
Number of annual accessions: 400
Annual acquisitions budget: 320.000 S.L. Re (~ US$ 6.400)
Number of current periodicals: 35
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: No
Number of current newspapers: 30
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?: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary staff; Cabinet of Ministers
Number of reading rooms: 2 (100)
Number of loans per year: 1.500
Reference services: 3.000
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies: No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: Yes, by the Library
Right to deposit: No
Other special collections of the Library: Rare books on Sri Lanka
IFLA membership: No

6. Parliamentary documents
Parliamentary debates : Hansard
Parliamentary series
Standing orders

(updated in January 1995)