| Main subject areas of the collection: |
Law, Social Sciences, Politics, Economics, Public Administration, Education, History and Geography |
| Number of registered documents (volumes): |
278.464 physical items. In addition, the Digital Library has approximately 6.857 documents and images of public access and downloadable |
| Annual growth of collections (volumes) / reference year: |
The annual increase of the collection taking into account the last six years is approximately 1, 5% |
| Special collections (Indicate special collections): |
Diego Dublé Urrutia, Ramón Cañas Montalva, Juan Mujica, Exequiel González Madariaga, Guillermo Feliú Cruz, Mario Valenzuela Lafourcade, José Manuel Ríos with a total 31.132 items obtained through donations and purchases. Other collection is Rare and Valuable Books: collection formed by important materials for the value of its content or intrinsic value related to a historical event, a significant theme or its creator with a total 17.786 items |
| Online Catalogue (Indicate url address / internet link): |
http://www.bcn.cl/catalogo |
| Does it have a legal depository?: |
National Library of Chile (BN) once a month provides to the Library of Congress (BCN) a remittance of books by concept of Cooperation Agreement, where the BN is obliged to deliver a copy of all the printed publications that it receives by way of Legal Deposit |
| Does it receive donations?: |
The National Library of Congress has received through its history various donations of collections and archives in the context of the collection of Memory Politics and Legislative of the country. It also receives donations of books in the thematic areas of the Library by the authors themselves |
| Does it offer reference services?: |
Since 1949, without interruption, the Library has stored properly organized and retrievable press information, which reflects the political, economic and social activity of the country, according to the national media narrations. All the resources developed have established a unique collection in the country, covering almost seventy years old. It contains: • 4,400,000 paper press clippings by subject and chronologically ordered (1949-2000) • 810,000 press referential cards indexed by subject, personal and institutional names (1949- 1990) • 750,160 newspaper clippings digitized and indexed applying controlled vocabulary, running in client server system, (2001-2009) and • 9.250,000,000 of digital press, including full text, images, videos and audios, organized in an online system named “Noticias”, using "free-text searches”, entirely developed by the Library (2009 to the present). The current online system has had the capability to integrate the all historical developing resources. In fact, the digital collection (2001-2009), 23.0000 historic paper press clippings and several press record cards has already been joined to it. Out of respect for the constraints defined by the intellectual property law, the access to digital collection is exclusive to parliamentary community. In spite of this, all the paper press clippings collection is open for consultation by authorized researchers. |
| Does it have news service? (e.g. press-clippings): |
Parliamentary portal, an internal online service of the National Congress which provides the parliamentary community with information relevant to the development of its own tasks, in order to satisfy information needs and support in legislative, representative and control work. This channel allows access to the documents of the Department of Studies of the BCN, to the digital collections, Bibliographic Catalog, databases and / or subscriptions that the institution maintains in force to collaborate in the legislative work. Thus, it has a series of sections that seek to deliver in a timely manner the latest generated by the Library of Congress for the parliamentary community |
| 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?: |
The Library of Congress regularly receives from the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies the Session Diaries. In addition, documents prepared at the request of parliamentarians by the Department of Studies and Parliamentary Advises are available through our website. Information about the History of Law, the Parliamentary Work, the Chile Law and the Political and Legislative History of the National Congress of Chile is also available |
