Marju Rist
Head of the Centre of Information
Services for MPs,
Estonian National Library
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§ 5. Functions of National Library as parliamentary library
1) to obtain, preserve, process, analyse and make available information
to the Riigikogu, the Chancellery of the Riigikogu, the Government
of the Republic, the Ministries and the State Chancellery; to prepare
and publish information carriers;
2) to register the official publications of the Republic of Estonia and
organise their exchange under the procedure established by
legislation;
3) to operate as a deposit library of international organisations
according to international agreements;
4) to collect literature pertaining to law, history and political science, as
well as other information carriers on social science, and to create
databases for national information needs;
5) to prepare and publish the Estonian legal bibliography.
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• IFLA Section of Library and Research Services for Parliaments
• The European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Documentation
• European Information Association (EIA)
• International Association of Law Libraries (IALL)
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The members of the Riigikogu and employees
of the Chancellery are offered the following
services :
• answering subject and data enquiries,
• information search from databases,
• selective information – regular information supply
on specific subjects in an agreed way and form,
• compiling bibliographies,
• home lending and ordering literature from the
National Library or through the interlibrary loan
(ILL),
• compiling abstracts on requested subjects.
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Open shelves:
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reference publications,
dictionaries,
law literature,
collections of Estonian and foreign countries
legislation,
literature on economic policy,
statistical collections,
political approaches of different countries,
reviews of the activities of governments and
parliaments,
Estonian and foreign newspapers and journals.
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Enquiries by subjects (%)
35
30
29
28
27
25
25
22
20
2005
20
17
15
15
16
15
2007
13
12,6
12
9,6
8,6
10
7
5
6
5,2
5
5
2
0
Education
Economics
EU
Politics
History
Culture
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2006
Law
Other
Databases of the Parliamentary Library
• Parliamentarism http://parl.nlib.ee
• Law Bibliography, Bibliographia Iuridica Estonica (BIE)
http://bie.nlib.ee
• Bibliography of the President of the Republic
http://vpk.nlib.ee
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Publications and databases of the
Parliamentary Library:
Abstract publications:

Summaria Socialia http://www.nlib.ee/2934
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Summaria Iuridica http://www.nlib.ee/2918
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Summaria Europensia
http://www.nlib.ee/24384
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Publications and databases of the
Parliamentary Library:
• Publications by the members of Parliament
(http://www.nlib.ee/22610)
• Bibliography of the Riigikogu
• The Riigikogu Chronicle (1992-2007)
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Publications and databases of the
Parliamentary Library:
• Nädal maakonnalehtedes (A Week in County
Newspapers),
• Nädal üleriigilistes lehtedes (A Week in National
Newspapers),
• Nädal ajaveebides (A Week on the weblog).
http://www.nlib.ee/99360
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Satisfaction of the members of the Riigikogu with the selection of
literature 1995-2006
100%
8
26,7
23,7
17,7
80%
60%
not satisfied
92
40%
73,3
76,3
1995
1998
82,3
satisfied
20%
0%
2001
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2006
Satisfaction of the members of the Riigikogu with the service
quality 1995-2006
100%
2,8
16,7
12,1
6
16,2
9,8
80%
43
60%
50
48,6
satisfactory
48,8
good
40%
51
20%
difficult to say
33,3
32,4
29,3
1995
1998
2001
0%
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2006
very good