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| European Parliament Library |
| The European Parliament Library is a part of the DG Presidency. The Library`s mission is to support the European Parliament's legislative, control and representational functions by providing high quality information services that are timely, objective and non-partisan. It works in close partnership with the policy departments and project teams, and cooperates with other relevant internal and external services to meet the information needs of Parliament. The Library will seek to deliver its services effectively, efficiently and economically. Its first priority is achieving client satisfaction with its defined services. Services will be delivered to quality standards. |
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Postal Address | Altiero Spinelli Building - Rue Wiertz |
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Postal Code | B-1047 Brussels |
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Country | Belgium |
| Telephone | +32-2 284 81 00 |
| Fax | +32-2 230 65 81 |
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| Web Site | click to visit |
| Catalogue: | click to visit |
| Normal Daily Hours |
Mon: 8.30 - 19.00
Tue: 10.00 - 19.00
Wed: 8.30 - 19.00
Thu: 8.30 - 19.00
Fri: 8.30 - 17.00 |
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Visitors policy | The mission of the Library concerns Parliamentary work and it does not provide services to the general public, students, consultants, lobbyists, external bodies, etc. The access to the Library is restricted to internal users only. |
| System Software | Library Management Software Symphony, by the company Sirsi-Dinix. |
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| Modules in Use | Cataloguing, Acquisition, Serials, Circulation |
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Cataloguing: MARC21 and AACR2.
Indexing: Eurovoc |
| Services Offered | The Library: - provides an information service which assists MEPs fulfil their individual parliamentary functions
- provides an information service which assists committees, rapporteurs, project teams and policy departments fulfil their parliamentary functions, and perform a knowledge management role by organising and re-purposing information generated by the project teams
- makes its information and services available to other EP staff as required for the functioning of Parliament
- enables effective information work by clients through design for self-service, provision of structured information literacy training and information consultancy work
- delivers its services through media and channels which its clients find convivial (e.g. reading rooms, intranet, hard copy, online)
- cooperates with other holders and providers of information in the Parliament, in particular the policy departments, to ensure that corporate needs are met effectively and efficiently
- cooperates with the information services of other European institutions in order to improve the quality of information available to all
- cooperates with national parliament information services in order to improve the quality of information available to all
- makes its information available to other authorised persons in so far as that is compatible with the achievement of its other objectives, and provided that there is a clear benefit to the Parliament and costs are insignificant.
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| Collection Topic | - Reference works on European issues in all EU languages
- Documents published by and on the European Parliament
- European Union institutions and policies
- EU law, international law, international organisations
- National institutions, law, general statistics and factual data for all member states.
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| Added | 11/10/2000 |
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