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House of Commons Library

the UK House of Commons Library provides impartial information and research services for Members of Parliament and their staff in support of their parliamentary duties.
Organization parliamentary_library Q15226006
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Summary

House of Commons Library is a parliamentary library[1]. It draws 177 Wikipedia views per month (parliamentary library category, ranking #2 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Greater London[4]
  • Country: United Kingdom[5]
  • Location: Palace of Westminster[6]
  • Official website: https://www.parliament.uk/commons-library[7], https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/[8]
  • Different from: Library of Parliament[9], House of Lords Library[10]
  • Position held by head of the organization: Q139962146[11]
  • Historic county: Middlesex[12]
  • Social media followers: 31,586[13], 29,947[14], 32,602[15], 33,543[16]

Why It Matters

House of Commons Library is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . commonslibrary.parliament.uk. Retrieved . commonslibrary.parliament.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . ifla.org. Retrieved . ifla.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 1
    The independent topic id → house-of-commons-library
    Wikipedia languages → ['en']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ The independent topic id: house-of-commons-library, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/214120900|House of Commons Library (#214120900)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match"
  2. 11w ago · Edward · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Position held by head of the organization → Q139962146
    Member of → International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
    Openstreetmap node id → 13288027766
    Different from → Library of Parliament, House of Lords Library
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Openstreetmap node id: 13288027766, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1785333299333"
  3. 20w ago · Anyaso · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Uk parliament thesaurus id → 25267
    Location → Palace of Westminster
    Freebase id → /m/0bn1yp
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 51.4999, 'lon': -0.1241}
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Located in the administrative territorial entity: Greater London"
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