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Official name of the federated state/autonomous territory: Minnesota
State
Official language: English

Official name of Parliament: Minnesota Legislature
-Bicameral -

Official names of Chambers: Senate (1)
House of Representatives (2)
The Legislative Reference Library serves both chambers of the Parliament

Address
Minnesota Legislature
Legislative Reference Library
645 State Office Building
100 Constitution Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55155-1050
Tel. (1) (612) 2963398
Fax (1) (612) 2969731
Homepage: www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/lrl.htm

Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1969
Person in charge: Ms Marilyn Cathcart,
Position or official title: Director
Number of library staff: 25
      Number of professional librarians: 10
      Number of other staff in the Library: 15
Size of collection: 39.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 79.000 US$
Number of current periodicals: 992
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification system for subject indexing: Thesaurus and classification system
Restricted to members of parliament: No,
Who else may use library: open to the public
Right to deposit: Depository status for Minnesota State documents
IFLA membership: No

Publications published by the Library
A guide to magazines and newspapers in the Legislative Reference Library
Biennial
Introductions
Bimonthly
Selected list of current non-Minnesota publications catalogued by the Library
Inside issues
Weekly
Customized current awareness citations
Minnesota highlights
Bimonthly
Background article on accessing Minnesota
State govt. publications
Documents on fiche
Monthly
Complete listing of Minnesota State documents on fiche
Minnesota resources
10 issues p.a.
Selected list of current Minnesota documents

Publications concerning the Library
A guide to Joint Legislative Services
Biennial

Parliamentary Papers
Senate
Journal of the Senate
Official record of proceedings
House of Representatives
Journal of the House of Representatives
Official record of proceedings
(Updated in October 1999)