LIBRARY OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCTION

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.

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.

RARE DOCUMENTS

The library has some very rare collections regarding constitutional, legislative and political history of Pakistan. In order to preserve this national heritage, a number of rare documents from this historic archive have been scanned and converted into digitalized format. For more details, Library staff may be contacted.

# Titles
1. Manifesto of the Punjab Provincial Muslim League.
2. Letters of Iqbal to Jinnah.
3. Presidential Address Allahabad Session December 1930.
4. Jinnah Gandhi Talks September 1944.
5. History of the Origin of Fourteen Points by M.A. Jinnah.
6. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the All-India Muslem League Amritsar 1903.
7. All-India Moslem League Annual Reports 1910.
8. Supplement to the Proceedings of the 10th Sessions of the All India Moslem League Calcutta 1917-18
9. All India Muslim League Presidential Address Jinnah October 1937.
10. List of the Members of the Council of the All India Muslim League 1939
11. List of the Members of the Council of the All India Muslim League 1941.
12. Speech by Mr. Syed Nabi Ullah President of the All India Muslim League Nagpur Session 1910.
13. Speeches of Quaid-e-Azam in the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan 1947-48
14. Short Biographical Sketches of Members of the Constituent Assembly.
15. Who’s Who in the National Assembly of Pakistan 1972-77.
16. Report of the Constitution Committee Presented to the National Assembly of Pakistan on 31st December 1972.
17. PPP.NAP.JUI the Tripartite Accord March 1972.

JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES

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

# Titles 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