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- Title: Research Service of the Quebec National Assembly.
- Author : Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date : January 22, 1999
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 241 KB
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Parliamentary libraries usually perform three functions: general documentation, institutional memory and, more recently, a function as an association of ideas.(1) The general documentation function was the first to appear. It can be found in the earliest lists and in the first catalogues published in the nineteenth century. The libraries took over the memory function when the publications and documents produced as a result of legislative and other parliamentary activity became substantial and, at the same time, something that desperately needed to be arranged and processed. The association of ideas function, which includes the work generally done by the so-called research services, entered the scene in the 1960s. Of course, the three functions of parliamentary libraries presuppose the existence of classification, cataloguing, indexing and, more generally, processing in the library. The Library of the National Assembly was founded in 1802. It grew slowly and its role and functions were particularly repetitive and stable during its first 150 years. An information service, the forerunner of the existing readers services, was created in 1936; a bindery was established some thirty years later. However, the greatest innovations occurred during the 1970s. The Research Service was set up in 1971(2) and it was followed a few months later by a press clipping service, a service to recreate the debates of the Assembly (a retrospective Hansard) and, between 1979 and 1984, the assignment to the Library of the team responsible for indexing the Journal des debats, the archives of the Assembly and administrative documents.(3)