Focusing on delivering a high quality products for MPs and for citizens- this is an important part of modern parliamentary management, and a part of the democratic process.
The Parliamentary databases exist for the benefit of the users not for their creators.
In 1996, the INTERNET was very new for most of us, now the INTERNET is large and is expanding rapidly. Parliamentary web site in the world does seem to be moving in the very well direction; most of Parliaments has web sites with important databases available in INTRANET, INTERNET, EXTRANET. All the parliamentary web sites inform and communicate. What means to inform our users? It's means to transmit information to reduce the uncertainty, to support them to receive the elements for guiding their decision process. It's a motion in one way.
What means to communicate, to be connected? It's means to scatter the message in double sense: the message might be accepted or refused. More and more our desire is that the information that flows inside the Chamber must be always improved.
In INTRANET of Chamber of Deputies, every member of Parliament and every parliamentary staff member may easily find out the Web statistics, Official Monitor- legislative dadabase of Romanian laws, lessons in informatics, INTERNET most useful addresses, telephone book of Chamber, and early 1999 library database.
In INTERNET, all the applications provided by the Information system are accessible from a starting point- home page address: http://dias.vsat.ro The information technology policy sets out three main objectives:
The main information is:
The Chamber of Deputies shares information and communicates with the Senate, the Government, the Presidency through EXTRANET.
The Library automation started in 1994, and responds to the needs: cataloguing, acquisitions, the circulation of documents, the serial's management, OPAC and the administrator. TINLIB 280, DOS version used in environment NOVELL and networked now over LAN inside the Library.
The Library automation was an excellent opportunity for review the systems and the working librarianship methods. The ways for access library's documents are: the author's name, the titles, key words, the subjects, EUROVOC thesaurus, the classification schemes-such UDC. The Control of the entries in on line catalogue is the iceberg of cataloguing- all time-this will continue to be an important side of cataloguing process.
Availability of the library database in INTRANET means, once again, the re-examination of the principles and cataloguing practices. In our parliamentary library not only the computer integrated system and networking has a big role to play, but and traditionally sides, ways, of library and library's management are very important too, and of course a professional staff.
Projects for future:
In 1996 the INTERNET was very new for most of us. Now, the INTERNET is large and is expanding rapidly, and more peoples believe that skills developed by librarians and researchers need to bring the control to the chaos on INTERNET.