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The main purpose of this study is to lighten a very big dark room of research regarding parliament and parliamentarians in the Arabic environment. The two researchers of this study tried to investigate the information seeking behaviour of Members of the Kuwaiti Parliament (MKPs) in terms of their thoughts, perceptions, attitudes, motivations, techniques, preferences ways, tools and problems encountered by them towards accessing information. Through a questionnaire, distributed in 2008, with a response rate 42%, the study found that MKPs tended mostly to be older, mostly with BA degree, their educational background comes from commercial sciences and about half of them have spent two periods in the Kuwaiti Parliament (The National Assembly). The study also found that MKPs were mainly seeking for information to make a decision, make a parliamentary request and to be in line with current events. The study showed that the most important sources of information MKPs were seeking for was mass media, networks & databases, minutes of sessions, and personal letters. It was also found that MKPs preferred printed formats with a very good use of the Internet and the computer as well. This study showed MKPs’ confirmation of using the English language, beside the Arabic language, as the most dominating foreign language used to access information. The study found that sectaries, consultants and colleagues were the most important assistants of information to MKPs. The study also found that the shortage of the library's role to deliver information, recency of information and use of technology tools were the most significant problems encountered by MKPs when they were seeking for information. The study recommended to establish a smart research unit in parliament providing the member with the most appropriate sources of information rather than the latest and newest versions of them, and to create a translation unit concerning with those materials handled in foreign languages, and to make information, especially political, available with no any kind of restrictions for the scientific research service.
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