IN THIS DOCUMENT: Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3

Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments

Conference Papers

Seminar co-ordinator: Hugh Finsten - Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Canada, Parliamentary Research Branch.

Panel 1: Theme: "Establishing a Legislative Research Service"

1. La création d'un centre de recherche parlementaire
   The creation of a Parliamentary Research Centre
   ALIM GARGA (Parliamentary Research Centre, National Assembly of Cameroon, Taounde, Cameroon)
   
2. The role of the research services in the modernization of the Mexican Congress
   DULCE MARIA LIAHUT BALDOMAR (Integrated System of Documentation Services, Mexican Chamber of Deputies, Palacio Legislativo, El Parque, Mexico)
   
3. How to establish a parliamentary research service: does one size fit all?
   J.R. VERRIER (Information and Research Service, Parliament of Australia, Canberra, Australia)

Panel 2: Theme: "Issues for Smaller Legislative Research Services"

1. Implications of new public management theory in the research services
   AARE KASEMETS (Estonian Parliament, Tallinn, Estonia)
2. Issues for smaller legislative research services
   MARIALYSE DELANO (Information Resources, National Congress Library, Chile)

Panel 3: Theme: "Quality Control"

1. Quality control: ensuring high quality research services
   BOB GARDNER (Research and Information Services, Ontario Legislative Library, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and DONNA SHEEDER (Information Research Division, Congressional Research Service, Washington DC, USA)