Parliamentary Library (Switzerland)

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Parliament Library
Bundeshaus Parliamentary Library.jpg

Iron-glass construction from 1902

founding 2009
Duration 114,785 units (as of 2018)
Library type Parliament Library
place Bundeshaus , Bern
ISIL CH-000544-X

The Parliamentary Library in Bern since 2009 as a successor to the Federal Parliamentary and Central Library , the Parliamentary Library of the Swiss Confederation . It procures and mediates information for Parliament and supports academic research through the Federal Assembly .

history

In 2008, as part of an administrative reform, the former Federal Parliament and Central Library was dissolved. Parts of this library were transferred to the area of ​​responsibility of the library at Guisanplatz . Other parts, together with the library of the documentation service of the Federal Assembly and the library of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, formed the basis for the new parliamentary library , which has existed since January 1, 2009. It is located in the hall that served as the National Council Chamber in the 19th century, in the West of the Federal Palace. After the National Council and Council of States received new halls in the newly built parliament building with the dome in 1902, the old National Council hall was converted into an iron and glass construction with stairs and corridors to become the «Canzleibibliothek». In 1968 the “Canzleibibliothek” was renamed “Eidgenössische Parliament- und Zentralbibliothek” (EPZB) and placed under the authority of the Federal Chancellery.

Tasks and holdings

Your tasks include:

  • Documenting members of parliament on all political issues
  • Compilation of statistics on parliamentary procedures
  • In the context of library work in the narrower sense (book and magazine management), the parliamentary library not only supports the members of parliament and the staff of the parliamentary services, but also the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, the Federal Chancellery , the general secretariats and staffs of all departments in the West Federal Palace as well as the Political party secretariats.

The parliamentary library also includes the competence center for parliamentarism , which supports students and academics in researching parliamentarism .

old formula for swearing in members of parliament and the federal council

As of 2018, the Parliamentary Library had 114,785 volumes, 569 current periodicals , 236 electronic journals , 32,605 official documents, 200 maps and an electronic press archive with 450,000 newspaper clippings. The holdings are indexed in a publicly accessible online catalog . The parliamentary library describes itself as the institutional «memory» of the Federal Assembly. It houses u. a. the leather-covered binding with the previous and current formula, on which the members of parliament and the state government swear their oath of office .

The parliamentary library is a member of the bibliosuisse and IFLA associations and participates in inter-library lending .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal libraries united in the DDPS . Federal Chancellery. June 25, 2008. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  2. ↑ Parliamentary Library - History . Federal Assembly. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b How the National Council Chamber became a library. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Research support . Federal Assembly, Parliamentary Library. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b Marlies Janson, Sandro Ratt, Axel Schniederjürgen (Eds.): World Guide to Libraries . 33rd edition. Volume 2. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin / Boston 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057610-8 , p. 717 .
  6. ↑ Parliamentary Library . Federal Assembly. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
  7. ↑ bibliosuisse.ch. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .
  8. ^ Parliamentary Services , Parliamentary Library, 2009– . In: HelveticArchives . Swiss National Library. Retrieved October 23, 2018.