Institution - Biblioteca do Senado Federal
Identification
| Name: | Biblioteca do Senado Federal |
| Institutional Description: | The Senate Library was created on May 18, 1826, by a committee established to prepare the first catalogue of books and journals own by the “Senate Bookstore”, on the initiative of Senator Viscount of Cairú. Nowadays, the Senate Library is responsible for a cooperative network of 12 specialized libraries, a Digital Library with 280 thousand documents, maintain a Controlled Vocabulary and Authority Name Headings, offers access to several international renowned Databases and provides various products and services to Senators and Senate staff. Our team is formed by libraries specialized in Law, Knowledge Management, Legislative Communication and other related areas. |
| Country/Entity: | Brazil |
| Name of Parliament: | Senado Federal |
| Type of Parliament: |
- Parliament of a sovereign state |
| In case of a bicameral parliament the served Chamber/House: | The Upper Chamber/House (Senate/House of Lords) |
| Number of the members of the served legislature(s): | 81 |
| Number of staff working in the served parliamentary administration(s): | 10228 |
| Type of organization: | Library |
| Types of users: |
- Citizens - Students - Parliamentarians - Goverment - Staff |
| Year founded: | 1826 |
| Number of staff: | 97 |
| Website: | https://www12.senado.leg.br/institucional/biblioteca |
| Date update: | 09/17/2019 |
Ifla
| IFLA member?: | Yes |
| Regional member?: | Yes |
| Which Regional Member?: | |
| Member of Other Association(s)?: |
Address
| Address (1): | Praça dos Três Poderes, Palácio do Congresso |
| Address (2): | Senado Federal, anexo 2 |
| Postal code: | 70165-900 |
| Phone: | +55 61 33031194 |
Contact
| Email: | biblioteca@senado.leg.br |
| Contact person: | Clara Bessa da Costa |
| Email contact person: | clara@senado.leg.br |
| Phone contact person: | +55 61 33031194 |
| Name Library/RC Authorities: | Patricia Coelho Ferreira Meneses Da Silva |
| Email Library/RC Authorities: | pcoelho@senado.leg.br |
More information for questions and answers
Library information
| Main subject areas of the collection: | Social Science, Law, Economics, Business and Political Science |
| Number of registered documents (volumes): | 534,356 |
| Annual growth of collections (volumes) / reference year: | 10,049/2017 |
| Special collections (Indicate special collections): | Luis Viana Filho Collection and Vicente Machado Collection of rare books and magazines ; Microfilm collection ; Newspaper thematic clipping collection |
| Online Catalogue (Indicate url address / internet link): | http://biblioteca2.senado.gov.br:8991/F/?func=find-b&request=&find-code=WRD&adjacent=N&local_base=SEN01 |
| Does it have a legal depository?: | Legal deposit collection of Senate publications |
| 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): | yes |
| Does it have information on parliamentary documents and activities?: | yes |
Research service information
| Does it offer reference services?: | |
| Does it have news service? (e.g. press-clippings): | |
| Does it have information packages for parliamentary work? (e.g. draft bills or for committee meeting): | |
| Does it have summaries/concise analyses of proposed legislation?: | |
| Does it have assistance in drafting legislation?: | |
| Does it have fact sheets or briefings? (e.g. an introduction to issues using brief fact): | |
| Does it have statistical profiles?: | |
| Does it have background studies, analyses?: | |
| Does it have impact assessment?: | |
| Does it have other services?: | |
| Does it have online publications? (Indicate url address / internet link): | |
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| Date update: | 09/17/2019 |
