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Administration : Departments and Directorates

Parliament Library Directorate

Head: Ε. Drakopoulos
e-mail: e.drakopoulos@parliament.gr

The Secretary General is in charge of the Parliament’s Library, from an administrative point of view while the Library per se is under the scientific supervision of the President of the Scientific Council.
This is actually a general library which is open to the public though its main objective is to support the work of Parliament and its members. It provides support to MPs, their staff and associates, the Parliament’s Scientific Agency and the workforce of Hellenic Parliament. The Library is in close cooperation with all parliamentary agencies and departments, and other public sector state bodies as well as other libraries and scientific expert foundations both in Greece and abroad.

The Parliament’s Library has a collection of 650,000 books and volumes on all fields of science and, in line with Law 3149/2003, it is mandatory that it update itself and either purchase new Greek publications directly or get them in the form of donations. The Library has all Government Gazette back issues, parliamentary debate journals, verbatim reports and minutes of debates in the old House and the senate along with collections of manuscripts, archives (historical and photo) and the official Art Collection of the Hellenic Parliament. Get an electronic catalogue and lists of all such Library collections by logging on http://catalog.parliament.gr, a website that also provides unimpeded access to all of the Library’s digital collections.
 
The Parliament’s Library Directorate is comprised of the following Departments:

A) Parliament Library Department
Head: Eleni Droulia
tel: 210 370 72 29, fax: 210 3707464

The Department has the following main responsibilities:
  • The management, documentation and supply of parliamentary information on introductory reports, the Parliament’s minutes, Issues of the Government Gazette and on the general material produced by the Parliament’s services.
  • The purchase of books and journals of parliamentary interest as well as the purchase of publications of public services, institutions and enterprises of the wider public sector as the latter is each time determined.
  • Update and support MPs and other services of the Parliament through loan and interlibrary loan services, the operation of a reading room, etc.
  • The safekeeping, development and documentation support of the collection of Valuable and Rare Editions, the collection of manuscripts, the collection of photographic and historical data, except those on political personalities and audiovisual archives.
  • The safekeeping, development and documentation support of Special Collections and the Collection of Artworks of the Parliament.
  • Supporting public access to the above archives and collections.
  • Updating, filing, documenting and developing the printed and digital collection of Greek and foreign language newspapers and periodicals. Documenting and developing collections from donations, exchanges according to law, orders, offers, and the current book material and supporting user services on the entirety of the Parliament’s collections. 
Parliament Library working hours:
  • Weekdays (and also throughout parliamentary sessions): 9 am to 8:30 pm- for MPs and personnel;
  • Weekdays 9am to 1:30 pm and 6pm to 8:30pm and Saturdays 9 am to 1:30 pm- for the general public.
Contact details
Secretariat: 210 370 72 27
Reading Room: 210 370 72 12
Fax: 210 370 72 94
 
B) Department of the City Library (Kapnergostasio-Old Tobacco Factory) and of Managing Library Systems
Head: Eleni Antonarakou
Tel.: 2105102605, fax: 210 5102080

The main responsibilities of the Department are the following:
  • The responsibility for the operation of the City Library to the old tobacco factory, of the stack room and of the reading room.
  • The support of the computer systems of the Library and of the creation and management of its electronic archives.
  • The introduction and incorporation of new technology and its applications to the library’s infrastructures.
  • Digitalization and micro-photographing of the Library’s collections and support on the operation and updating of the Library’s webpage.
Open: weekdays 9am -2:30 pm
Contact info
Reading Room: 210 5102314-16
Fax: 210 510 20 80


C) Department of Preservation and Conservation of Printed Material and Artworks
Head: Maria Sakellariou
tel: 210 510 26 07, fax: 210-5102090

The main responsibilities of the Department are the following:
  • Attending to the conditions of preservation of printed material, of micro-tapes and works of art and executing regular controls on all storage and usage rooms.
  • The preservation of books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, documents, paintings and other works of art and collections which belong to the Parliament. 
D) Department for the Benakis Library and Political Heritage Collections
Head: Maria Vlassopoulou
tel: 210 3707249, 210 5102314-2315, fax: 210 3707464
e-mail: m.vlassopoulou@parliament.gr

The main responsibilities of the Department are the following: 
  • The responsibility for the operation of the Benakis Library, the Psycharis collection and other individual collections of the stack room and the reading room.
  • Attending to the safekeeping, development and documentation of the political heritage collections and of the audiovisual archives.
  • Providing services to the visitors of the Benakis Library ad general public services in relation to the entirety of political heritage collections.