Access

The microforms card catalog, at the rear of the first floor of Bostock Library, provides access to the Parliamentary papers in microprint.

A guide to the Readex microprint edition of British Sessional Papers is offered by a General Index shelved in the Newspapers and Microforms guide area, behind the Bostock help desk, under the call number News/Micro. z328.42 fI68.  The indexes are arranged alphabetically by subject.  Finding information (located at the end of each entry) includes session date of the paper, the number which the paper bears in each session (in parentheses), and the volume and page number of the Sessional Collection (i.e., 1818 (57.)III.99).

At the beginning of index volumes 2-8 is an alphabetical and classified list of the headings in the volume with page references.  Volume 1 is Hansard's Catalogue and Breviate of Parliamentary Papers 1696-1834.  The other seven volumes contain various categories of Parliamentary papers, 1801-1899, ie.e, accounts and papers, bills, reports.

A monthly index on microfiche entitled House of Commons Sessional Papers is shelved in the Newspapers and Microforms guide area under the call numbers S284, S285, S286.  This index is a guide to all House of Commons Parliamentary Papers published during the session.  It is arranged alphabetically by subject and lists in order: Bills, Command Papers and House of Commons Papers.  It dates from 1984 to the present. 

A bibliography/handout entitled Parliamentary Papers, Great Britain, is available at the Reference Desk and contains comprehensive library holdings on this subject.

The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers can be searched via the Web-CDs. 

Holdings and Call Numbers

British Sessional Papers
   Call Number: N4583

Readex microprint boxes are arranged on shelves by session years from 1731-1906, 1922-1925.  Inclusive volumes for each session year are indicated on each Readex box.

Session years 1925-1979 are in paper format in Perkins stacks under call number PL328.4241 G786C. 

House of Commons. Journals.
   Call Number: N4582; f328.421 G786CA
   General index.

Readex microprint boxes are arranged on shelves by years (1547-1900) and corresponding volumes (vols. 1-155). 

House of Lords. Sessional Papers.
   Call Number: N4884

Film holdings: 1806-1859.  Reel guide... and checklist is shelved in the Newspapers and Microforms guide area behind the Bostock Library help desk under the call number N4884. 

Index to the Rolls of Parliament. (Microfilm)
   Call Number: N4291

Command Papers. (Microfilm)
   Call Number: N1591

   1919, v.53, command 8
   1920, v. 51, command 517

Dod's Parliamentary Companion.
   Call Number: N84

Biographies of members of the House of Commons and other information on microfiche.  Dates include 1833, 1838, 1841-1865, 1867-1909. 

House of Commons Papers.
   Call Number: S283z

1922-1944; 1967-1978. 

Bills. (Microfiche)
   Call Number: S284

1979-to date. 

Command Papers. (Microfiche)
   Call Number: S285

1979-to date.

House of Commons Papers. (Microfiche)
   Call Number: S286

   1979 to date.