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Parliamentary Library shoulders both the responsibilities of supplying information service to legislators and bridging the gateway between citizens and legislature in our democratic society. The library planned and launched its legislative information service in September 1985. In the first decade of modernized library service, “centralized processing, centralized service” was the computer-based development policy that had gained high reputation for its stable growth.
Afterwards, the wide area network among legislators’ offices and the remote access system had increased the use of legislative information system (LEGISIS) profoundly, which consisted of “Legislative Electronic Bulletin Board System”, “Legislator’s Interpellation Information System”, “Chinese Code Information System”, “Chinese Code Amendment Information System”, “Legislative Literature Information System”, “Legislative News Information System”, “Legislative Records Information System” and “The Legislative OPAC (On-line Public Access Catalog) System”. The service strategy had changed to “centralized processing, distributed service” for expanding its service range as the computer-supporting system from points to larger areas. In recent years, the rapid development of World Wide Web has changed the structure of legislative network. Presently, with the new strategy that featured of networked internet/intranet, media/knowledge content, computer system/various service platforms for “distributed processing, centralized management and personalized service”, an on-site and prompt delivery service is provided to each user.
The website library of Parliamentary Library was integrated in 1999. The development of web-site resources is based on the booming World Wide Web application and the modern trend of digital collections. The self-developed website of Parliamentary Library has been built up and opened to the public since September 1999. And then the second stage of website development is advanced to a bilingual version of interactive multi-media digital library.
Parliamentary Library had joined several prestigious library and information organizations in the past decade, such as, IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions), ASIS&T (American Society of Information Science & Technology), ALA (American Library Association), IALL (International Association of Law Libraries), SLA (Special Libraries Association) and APLAP (Association of Parliamentary Libraries of Asia & the Pacific). By attending the annual conference and related activities, the staffs come to understand the worldwide trend of development for the library & information profession and thus enhance our standard of parliamentary librarianship. With the expanded information service that we provide and the ever-increasing number of users, Parliamentary Library are dedicated to improving the legislative information system to provide a better quality service, as well as a more efficient service.
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