Parliamentary Library and Information Service
PARLIAMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALLIA
The STRUCTURE (as at April 1 1998)
• 3 Departments
Legislative Council
Legislative Assembly
Parliamentary Services Department
Management StructureManagement Executive Committee (MEC)
PRESIDING OFFICERS
Clerk Legislative Assembly
Clerk Legislative Council
Executive ManagerParliamentary Services
Heads Of Department
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
• 57 MLA’s
• Party Representation
Labor = 32
Liberals = 16
Nationals = 5
Independent = 4
Legislative Assembly
Legislative Council
• MLC’s = 34
Labor = 13
Liberals = 12
Nationals = 1
Greens = 5
One Nation = 3
LC ChangesMove to family friendly hours
commencing 2nd April - end December 2003
NewTuesday 3 - 10 pm
Wednesday 10am - 6.10pm
Thursday 10am - 6.10pm
Thursday 10am - 5.10pm
OldTuesday 3 - 10pm
Wednesday
Thursday
Parliamentary Services Dept (PSD) - 7 Units
• Building Services
• Catering Services
• Financial Services
• Human Resources
• Information Technology
• Library and Information Services
• Reporting Services
Corporate Management Team (CMT)
• Monthly meetings
• Rotational Chair
• Agenda and Minutes
• Each Unit Manager reports on monthly outcomes
• Issues are raised and discussed.
• Feedback is given from Management Executive Committee (MEC) and Heads of Department meetings (HOD)
Parliamentary Committee
Joint Library Committee
Joint Printing Committee
Joint Services Committee
Replaced by Parliamentary Services
Committee
Library Reporting Lines
Presiding Officers
Chief Executive OfficerParliamentary Services Committee
Parliamentary Library & Information Services Manager
Principle Services
• Reference Services (no research service at this stage)
• Library Collection
• Media Services
Newspaper clipping service on-line
Electronic news services - TV & Radio
• Intranet
• Electronic information Services
• Training and user education programs.
Reference Team
Reference ServiceSupported by 4 Librarians
• Responsible for
development of services &
reference desk duties.
• Continuous review &
development of
reference and general
collection
• Publication of intranet,
census, electoral
profiles, guides and fact
sheets.
• Current Awareness
Services (e-Currents)
available via Intranet
• Training and user
education.
Technical Team
Technical Team
1 x Librarian - Team Leader
2 x Library Technicians
1 x Media Officer
1 x .6 Media Clerk
1 x Library Assistant
Technical Team
• Responsible for all technical services
Library catalogue
Journal accessioning
Indexing
Report generation
ILL’s
Media Services
Library layout and information flow
Media ServicesNewspaper Clippings
• Selection, Scanning & Indexing daily news clippings = available by 12pm
• Hardcopies filed and files spiral bound 1996+
• Electronic image June 2000+
Electronic Media Services
• Daily taping of news and current affair programs (In-house 2000)
• Recording of radio drive programs (In-house 2002)
• Transcript service
• Dubbing - MP1 and MP3 formats
• Management of video reticulation
• Sitting days - compilation news service shown internally via TV reticulation service.
New Initiative 2003 / 4• Relocate library to refurbished ballroom
• Replace current library system to a more integrated system.
• Investigate options to convert retrospective hardcopy news clipping files to electronic.
• Project to digitise sound and vision
• Establish a special historical collection of works by or about members of the Western Australian Parliament as part of the 2004 Centenary of the Building celebrations
New Initiative cont’d
• Development of Electronic Information Policy
• Negotiating a Research Service
Committee Participation• INTERNAL
– Corporate Management Team (CMT)
– Records Management Committee
– Archival Committee– Classification Committee– Web Committee– Emergency Procedures
Committee– JCC Joint Consultative Cmte
• EXTERNAL
- ALIA - Mentoring Cmte
- ALLGWA
- APLA
- KISWA -( Knowledge
Information Specialist WA)
- RMAA
- IIM
- WAGLIN - WA Govt
Library & Information
Network
Parliamentary Library
and Information Services
Phone: 9222 7393
Fax: 9222 7859
Email: [email protected]
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