Country

Official name of the country (Latin transcript):

Republik Österreich

 

Parliament

Official name of parliament:

in original language (Latin transcript):
Parlament
in English translation:
Parliament
bicameral

Official name of chambers:

in original language (Latin transcript):
Bundesrat ; Nationalrat
in English translation:
Federal Coucil ; National Coucil

Related libraries:

one library for all chambers

 

Library - General Information

Does any other library provide services to parliament instead?

Name of the parliamentary library

in original language (Latin transcript):
Parlamentsbibliothek
in English translation:
Parliamentary Library

Adress:

Parlamentsbibliothek

Dr. Karl Renner-Ring 3

1017 Wien, Parlament

 

Telephone:

+43 (0)1 401102285

Fax:

+43 1 401102825

E-Mail:

bibliothek@parlament.gv.at

Internet / WWW / Website:

http://www.parlament.gv.at/bibliothek

 

Library - Detailed Information

Year of foundation:

1869

Person in charge of the parliamentary library:

Mrs. Elisabeth Dietrich-Schulz

Who may use the library?

• Members of the National Concil ("Nationalrat") and members of the Federal Council ("Bundesrat")
• Austrian delegates to the European Parliament
• employees of the Parliamentary Administration
• employees of the Parliamentary Groups
• parliamentary assistants according to the 1992 legislation pertaining to parliamentary employees
• all persons interested in the parliamentary work provided an appointment has been made with the library

Number of library staff:

12

Annual acquisition budget:

160 000 Euro
(=221 273 US $)

Size of collection:

more than 340 000 volumes

Legal deposit?

Yes

Other special collections of the library:

the documentation of writings of Members of the Austrian Parliment since 1848

 

Number of current periodicals (printed and electronic):

270 printed and electronic

Are periodicals currently indexed for articles?

Yes

Press cuttings:

Yes

Are the papers of the parliament indexed?

Yes

Is the library in charge of the archival materials of the parliament?

No

Has the library automated its cataloguing?

Yes

Is the automated catalogue accessible to outside users?

Yes

Does the library use a thesaurus or a classification system for subject indexing?

Yes

Reference services:

Yes

Research service:

No

Other special services:

• cooperation partner in Austria's two major digitisation projects:

                ANNO Austrian Newspapers Online http://anno.onb.ac.at

                ALEX Historical Austrian laws and legal texts http://alex.onb.ac.at

• cooperation partner in V4+ digital library http://dev-srv.inux.cz/cz/visegradparllib/www/htdocs
• the head-librarian is correspondent of the European Centre für Parliamentary Research and Documentation / ECPRD www.ecprd.org

IFLA membership:

No