Foreign Parliamentary Collections
The Foreign Parliamentary Collection is the oldest special collection of
the Parliamentary Library. Shortly after its foundation, the library
established exchange relations with legislative bodies of numerous
European countries and the United States pursuant to the Brussels
Convention on the Exchange of Official Publications (1886). Since the
1860s, it has built a considerable historical collection of documents of
the legislatures of many countries of Europe, for instance the United
Kingdom, Germany, France, Austria and also the United States. Currently these five countries' documents are almost fully available in the collection. As from the 1980s, printed
volumes of parliamentary papers, records of parliamentary debates and
indexes have been supplanted by microfiche. Since more and more national
parliaments started providing online full-text access to their
documents, the exchange of printed volumes has been phased out. All of the printed volumes of foreign parliamentary
collection is stored in our off-site facility, which means they are
transported to the reading room only on certain days of the week. Users need to order them in advance by e-mail (info@ogyk.hu)
Documents
of the Inter-Parliamentary Union also form part of this special
collection. The simplest way to visit websites of national
parliaments is to click through “Parliamentary sites” at the bottom of
the homepage of
the website of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Contact:
Reference Librarian: Gergely Zágoni-Bogsch
Phone: (+36-1) 441-4087
E-mail: gergely.zagoni-bogsch@parlament.hu