Official name of the country: Jumhuriyat al-Sudan
(Republic of the Sudan)
Official language: Arabic

Official name of Parliament: Al-Majlis al-Watani al-Intiqali
(The Transitional National Assembly)
Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Member of the ASGP

2. Address
Al-Majlis al-Watani al-Intiqali
Maktaba
14416 Omdurman
Tel.: *(249)(11)557849; 559642

3. Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1976
Person in charge: Mr Ibrahim Ali TAIALLAH
Position or official title: Amin al-Maktaba
Number of library staff: 13
Number of professional librarians: 3
Number of research and subject analyst staff in the Library: 1
Number of secretarial and support staff: 7
Number of other staff: 2 (attendants)
Size of collection: 4.700
Number of annual accessions: 200
Annual acquisitions budget: 3.000.000 S£ (~ US$ 4.800)
Number of current periodicals: 1
Periodicals indexed for relevant articles: No
Number of current newspapers: 10
Press cuttings: Yes, by the Library (4)
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: No
Clientele: Members, parliamentary staff; scholars
Number of reading rooms: 6 (65)
Number of loans per year: 1.200
Reference services: Yes
Current bibliographies: No
Retrospective subject bibliographies: No
External database searches: No
Analysis and research: No
IFLA membership: No

6. Parliamentary documents
Mahader al-Jelsat
Verbatim record of sittings
Majelet al-Perlemant
Journal of Parliament

(updated in January 1996)