title: Engaging Citizens in Parliament: A Comparison of Parliamentary Information Services Extension and Library Networks
abstract: Working with parliaments in different environments over the past 20 years, I wanted to share some experiences of how working with libraries can help parliaments better engage the public.
  
  I worked in Ukraine in two different periods 1994-2000 and 2008-2013 both with the national parliament and with the legislature of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. From 2002-2005 I worked with the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia. From 2005-2008 I worked with the bicameral Parliament of the Isla