World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries of Federated States and Autonomous Territories- United States of America
Libraries in United States of America
Official name of the federated
state/autonomous territory: Wisconsin
State
Official language: English
Official name of Parliament:
Wisconsin Legislature
-Bicameral -
Official names of Chambers:
Senate (1)
Assembly (2)
The Legislative Reference Library serves both chambers of the
Parliament
Address
Wisconsin Legislature
Legislative Reference Bureau
100 North Hamilton Street
P.O. Box 2037
Madison, WI 53701-2037
Tel. (1)(608)2660341
Fax (1)(608)2665648
Details on the Library
Year of foundation: 1902
Person in charge: Mr Lawrence
Barish,
Position or official title: Director
of Reference and Library Services
Number of library staff: 20,
Number
of professional librarians: 13,
Number
of other staff in the Library: 7
Size of collection: 100.000
Annual acquisitions budget: 38.000
US$
Number of current periodicals:
300
Library uses a thesaurus or a classification
system for subject indexing: Classification system
Restricted to members of parliament:
No,
Who else may use library: open to the
public
Right to deposit: Depository status
for State of Wisconsin documents
IFLA membership: No
Parliamentary Papers
Legislature
Acts and resolves
Bulletin of the proceedings of the
Legislature of Wisconsin
- Directory and manual
Index to the Journala of the
Wisconsin Legislature
Senate
Journal of proceedings
1848 -
Senate manual
Assembly
Assembly bulletin
The Assembly manual of the Wisconsin
Legislature
Journal of
proceedings
1848 -