Institution - Documentation and Information Center, Chamber of Deputies: Centro de Documentação e Informação, Câmara dos Deputados
Identification
| Name: | Documentation and Information Center, Chamber of Deputies: Centro de Documentação e Informação, Câmara dos Deputados |
| Institutional Description: | The Documentation and Information Center provides information to the House´s staff, Brazilian citizens and the international community, provides support to the legislative activities and preserves the institutional memory. The Documentation and Information Center is responsible for managing information in the Chamber, ensuring internal and external information quality and access. Thus, among its management activities are those related to library and archive services, information architecture, documentary language and terminology control, management of legislative information databases, publication of the official bibliographic materials of the House, preservation of country's and legislative heritage and information research. The research service – officially called Legislative Consultancy – provides expert analysis to parliamentarians, committees, Plenary meetings and Chamber administration on 21 fields of public policy. It is a separate department from the Documentation and Information Center, although both units cooperate on a large scale. The research service is basically demand driven and produces in-depth studies, short papers and drafts for bills and bill reports. Researchers also attend all committee meetings, in order to provide on-site advice on technical and policy related issues concerning bills under discussion. The average number of research request is twenty thousand a year. |
| Country/Entity: | Brazil |
| Name of Parliament: | Câmara dos Deputados - Brazilian Chamber of Deputies |
| Type of Parliament: |
- Parliament of a sovereign state |
| Number of the members of the served legislature(s): | 513 |
| Number of staff working in the served parliamentary administration(s): | 4713 |
| Type of organization: | Other |
| Types of users: | |
| Year founded: | 1826 |
| Number of staff: | 247 |
| Website: | http://www2.camara.leg.br/a-camara/documentos-e-pesquisa |
| Date update: | 08/11/2022 |
Ifla
| IFLA member?: | Yes |
| Regional member?: | No |
| Which Regional Member?: | |
| Member of Other Association(s)?: | International Council on Archives - ICA |
Address
| Address (1): | Praça dos Três Poderes, Câmara dos Deputados, Anexo 2 |
| Address (2): | Brasilia, DF Brasil |
| Postal code: | 70160900 |
| Phone: | 55 61 32165501 |
Contact
| Email: | informa.cedi@camara.leg.br |
| Contact person: | Janice Silveira |
| Email contact person: | janice.silveira@camara.leg.br |
| Phone contact person: | 55 61 32165501 |
| Name Library/RC Authorities: | Maria Raquel Melo |
| Email Library/RC Authorities: | raquel.melo@camara.leg.br |
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Library information
| Main subject areas of the collection: | social sciences with an emphasis on law, political science, economics, and public administration. |
| Number of registered documents (volumes): | 200.000 |
| Annual growth of collections (volumes) / reference year: | 2300/year |
| Special collections (Indicate special collections): | rare books |
| Online Catalogue (Indicate url address / internet link): | http://biblioteca2.senado.gov.br:8991/F/TLSKC9R91VUR47UHTPESXXEINQPN9I9S7BRK3NKDT1QQNU76V4-04418?func=find-b-0&local_base=cam |
| Does it have a legal depository?: | no |
| Does it receive donations?: | yes |
| Does it offer reference services?: | yes |
| Does it have news service? (e.g. press-clippings): | yes |
| Does it have information packages for parliamentary work? (e.g. draft bills or for committee meeting): | No. These services are offered by Research Service. |
| Does it have information on parliamentary documents and activities?: | yes |
Research service information
| Does it offer reference services?: | No. These services are offered by the Documentation and Information Center |
| Does it have news service? (e.g. press-clippings): | no |
| Does it have information packages for parliamentary work? (e.g. draft bills or for committee meeting): | yes |
| Does it have summaries/concise analyses of proposed legislation?: | yes |
| Does it have assistance in drafting legislation?: | yes |
| Does it have fact sheets or briefings? (e.g. an introduction to issues using brief fact): | no |
| Does it have statistical profiles?: | yes |
| Does it have background studies, analyses?: | yes |
| Does it have impact assessment?: | no |
| Does it have other services?: | Yes. Ghost writing for speeches. Advisory work on committees. |
| Does it have online publications? (Indicate url address / internet link): | http://bd.camara.gov.br/bd/handle/bdcamara/12/browse?type=title |
| Types of users: | |
| Date update: | 08/11/2022 |
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