Institution - Parliamentary Library, Swiss Parliament
Identification
| Name: | Parliamentary Library, Swiss Parliament |
| Institutional Description: | The Parliamentary Library is responsible for acquiring, indexing, synthesising and supplying relevant, reliable and high value-added information required by the Federal Assembly, its organs, Council members and Parliamentary Services for their work. |
| Country/Entity: | Switzerland |
| Name of Parliament: | The Federal Assembly - The Swiss Parliament |
| Type of Parliament: |
- Parliament of a sovereign state |
| In case of a bicameral parliament the served Chamber/House: | Both Chambers/Houses |
| Number of the members of the served legislature(s): | 246 |
| Number of staff working in the served parliamentary administration(s): | 350 |
| Type of organization: | Combined library and research service |
| Types of users: |
- Students - Parliamentarians - Goverment - Staff |
| Year founded: | 2008 |
| Number of staff: | 24 |
| Website: | https://www.parlament.ch/en/services/parliamentary-library |
| Date update: | 03/26/2021 |
Ifla
| IFLA member?: | Yes |
| Regional member?: | No |
| Which Regional Member?: | |
| Member of Other Association(s)?: | ECPRD network |
Address
| Address (1): | Bundeshaus West |
| Address (2): | |
| Postal code: | 3003 |
| Phone: | +41 58 322 97 44 |
Contact
| Email: | doc@parl.admin.ch |
| Contact person: | Jacqueline Kucera |
| Email contact person: | jacqueline.kucera@parl.admin.ch |
| Phone contact person: | +41 58 322 97 44 |
| Name Library/RC Authorities: | Jacqueline Kucera |
| Email Library/RC Authorities: | jacqueline.kucera@parl.admin.ch |
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Library information
| Main subject areas of the collection: | All areas of politics, with a particular focus on documents on national policy, parliamentarianism, law, parliamentary documents; government publications; economics and administration, contemporary history and history on the Federal Assembly and foreign policy. |
| Number of registered documents (volumes): | 138'799 |
| Annual growth of collections (volumes) / reference year: | 11'000 / 2019 |
| Special collections (Indicate special collections): | The Parliamentary Library maintains a collection of publications on all areas of politics. One area of particular focus is specialised works on national policy, law, foreign policy and contemporary history. The library makes a special point of obtaining documents of every sort concerning the issues dealt with in parliament, literature about the federal assembly and other parliaments, and publications by members of parliament or senior officials. |
| Online Catalogue (Indicate url address / internet link): | https://biblio.parlament.ch/libero/WebOpac.cls?VERSION=2&ACTION=LANGXX&RSN=0&DATA=PDB&TOKEN=o1t3MEKdch4010&Z=1 |
| Does it have a legal depository?: | No |
| Does it receive donations?: | No |
| 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?: | 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 summaries/concise analyses of proposed legislation?: | Yes |
| Does it have assistance in drafting legislation?: | No |
| Does it have fact sheets or briefings? (e.g. an introduction to issues using brief fact): | Yes |
| Does it have statistical profiles?: | Yes |
| Does it have background studies, analyses?: | No |
| Does it have impact assessment?: | No |
| Does it have other services?: | Research support |
| Does it have online publications? (Indicate url address / internet link): | Parliamentary Portrait (https://www.parlament.ch/de/%C3%BCber-das-parlament/parlamentsportraet), Lexicon of Parliamentary Terms (https://www.parlament.ch/en/über-das-parlament/parlamentswörterbuch) | Preview National Council and Council of States (https://www.parlament.ch/en/ratsbetrieb/sessions/overview-briefings) | Fact Sheets (German: https://www.parlament.ch/de/%c3%bcber-das-parlament/publikationen/faktenblaetter, French: https://www.parlament.ch/fr/über-das-parlament/publications/fiches-dinformation) | Register of Deliberations (German: https://www.parlament.ch/de/services/volksabstimmungen/verhandlungshefte, French: https://www.parlament.ch/fr/services/votations-populaires/cahiers-des-deliberations) | Statistics (German: https://www.parlament.ch/de/%c3%bcber-das-parlament/fakten-und-zahlen, French: https://www.parlament.ch/fr/über-das-parlament/faits-donnees-chifrees) |
| Types of users: |
- Presidency of House - Party factions/groups - Committees - Support to committee work - Individual parliamentarians - Staff of parliamentarians (e.g. experts) - Staff of parliamentary administration - Other |
| Date update: | 03/26/2021 |
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