Library

The National Assembly Library is one of the most well equipped libraries of the country situated on the second floor of the Parliament House. It has been equipped to deal with the requirements of the parliament. National Assembly Library is primarily meant for the use of the Members and Officers of the National Assembly. The Library provides references and services to the House and Standing Committees. This Library also provides assistance to the Senators, within the library premises.

This Library has a collection of about 80,000 volumes of books, including National Assembly debates, House of Commons debates (England) from 1066 till 1990 A.D, the Indian Legislative Assembly debates 1921-47, the Council of State of India debates 1921-46, Lok Sabha and Rajiya Sabha of India till 1947-76, Gazette of Pakistan (1947 todate), reports of Federal Government, United Nations and its agencies, and other documents. Number of law journals are also available in the Library namely, Pakistan Legal Decisions (PLD), Supreme Court Monthly Review (SCMR), Civil Law Cases (CLC), Monthly Law Digest (MLD), National Law Reports (NLR) and All India Reporter (AIR). Library has exchange relations with some other parliaments and receives parliamentary documents from them. Beside this the collection of Ordinances /Acts/MLR/C.E. Orders are also available from 1947- to date.

The debates of the National Assembly are available in the form of Microfilm 1947 to 1999. The House of Representatives & the Senate of the United States 1985-2000 are also available on the Microfilm. The Members can access this facility in the National Assembly Library.

In the Library the facility of Internet is also available for the honourable Members. The Library has acquired the facility of PAKISTAN LAW WEBSITE, to give access to the Members as key source of Laws, decisions of the courts and commentary on laws. This facility is password protected and Members can avail this facility in the National Assembly Library.

Recently the National Assembly library has subscribed the facility of Higher Education Commission digital library and Members can also avail this huge depository of online books through this website http://www.digitallibrary.edu.pk/nat_assem_sec.html.

The collection available in the Library has been cataloged through library Management System Software and is available on the local Area Network of the Assembly for online access to the Members. This catalog will be made available on the website of the National Assembly very soon.

Under Rule 208 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business, in the National Assembly 2007, a Committee on House and Library has been constituted with Deputy Speaker National Assembly as Chairman to provide guidance for the improvement of facilities in the National Assembly Library.

National Assembly Library subscribes the following foreign/local magazines and journals.

#	Tittles of Journals/Magazines	Frequency
1.	Adelphi Paper	Monthly
2.	American Economic Review	5 issues in a year
3.	American Journal of International Law	Quarterly
4.	Asian Affairs	3 issues in a year
5.	Asian Survey	Monthly
6.	British Journal of Political Science	Quarterly
7.	Congressional Digest	10 issues in a year
8.	Current History	9 issues in a year
9.	Fletcher Forum of World Affairs	Biannually
10.	Foreign Policy	6 issues in a year
11.	Harvard Business Review	Monthly
12.	Harvard International Law Journal	Biannually
13.	International Financial Statistics	Monthly
14.	International Relations	Quarterly
15.	Journal of International Affairs	Biannually
16.	Journal of Politics	Quarterly
17.	Kessings Record of World Events	Monthly
18.	Middle East Studies Bulletin	Quarterly
19.	Orbis-Journal of World Affairs	Quarterly
20.	Parliamentary Affairs	Quarterly
21.	Studies in Comparative International Development	Quarterly
22.	The Parliamentarian	Quarterly
23.	World Economy	Monthly
24.	World Policy Journal	10 issues in year
25.	World Politics	Monthly
26.	Herald	Monthly
27.	News Line	Monthly
28.	National Geographic	Monthly
29.	Reader’s Digest	Monthly
30.	Urdu Digest	Monthly
31.	Times, London	Weekly
32.	Newsweek	Weekly
33.	Friday Times	Weekly
34.	Economist, London	Weekly
35.	Pakistan Gulf Economist	Weekly
36.	Fortune	Weekly
37.	Forbes	Fortnightly
38.	PC Magazines	Fortnightly
39.	Foreign Affairs	6 issues in a year
40.	Blue Chip	6 issues in a year
41.	PLD (Pakistan Legal Decisions)	Monthly
42.	Current Affairs	Monthly
43.	Selections from Regional Press	Fortnightly
44.	The Pakistan Development Review	Quarterly
45.	Islamic Economic Studies	Biannually
46.	Regional Studies	Quarterly
47.	Spotlight on Regional Affairs	Monthly
48.	Strategic Studies	Quarterly

For questions / comments, if any, Librarian can be reached at following during 0800 - 1500 hrs. from Monday through Saturday.