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The online catalogue covers the entire stock of the Library. It lists publications which have appeared as bibliographically independent works or as contributions to other works. Every year, around 11,000 publications and 10,000 periodical articles are catalogued and indexed.
In addition to keyword and free-text search options, the online catalogue offers a thesaurus-based search function. This offers both the occasional user and the specialist appropriate access points for searches, via a user-friendly and accessible user interface. Lists of suggested reading on specific events or topics can be accessed online.
The Library has been working with the POLIANTHES library thesaurus since 1949. In 1997-1998 it was thoroughly overhauled to meet the requirements of a user-friendly online catalogue with the addition of natural-language terms. The subject thesaurus consists of 90 microthesauri. Its structure is thus similar to that of EUROVOC, the European Parliament thesaurus which is also used by various European Union Member States.
The Library is constantly expanding its stock of electronic publications, which it makes available to users via the Bundestag intranet, allowing them quick access to the full text of politically interesting material directly from their offices. This material includes:
The Library’s electronic catalogue is accessible via the Library’s intranet portal, the central electronic information tool providing comprehensive information about the Library and its services. Library material can be ordered from every office.
Library material is issued to the user immediately. Some 60,000 volumes are lent out each year.
The reading room in the Marie-Elisabeth Lüders Building has a reference stock of around 20,000 volumes on a wide range of topics and offers ready access to the current issues of around 1000 periodicals. In the Jakob Kaiser Building there is a small reading room which offers key material relating to Parliament, politics, law and economics, as well as the