Data on public libraries by council
Dear Madam/Sir,
My name is Immanuel Feld and I am a researcher at the University of Warwick. My research focusses on local governments and the provision of public goods. I am thus interested in collecting information on the public libraries run by local councils.
Specifically, under the FOI legislation, I request a list of all public libraries run by your council between 2005 and 2022. Additionally, could you please provide information on dates of opening and closure (with at least year-month precision) if they started or ceased operation over that period. Lastly, could you please provide information on opening and closing hours of the library in that given year?
That means the final dataset would have the following columns:
Name of the library, address, date of opening, date of closing, opening hours in year 2005, opening hours in year 2006, … , opening hours in year 2022.
If collecting daily opening hours is not possible, annual opening hours are sufficient, too.
I am happy with whatever format of the data is the most suitable to you and I don’t have any issue in combining multiple files.
Yours faithfully,
Immanuel Feld
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Dear Mr Feld,
Further to your request for information under the above act, I can advise
you that the information you requested is not held by this authority.
Gravesham Borough Council is not the responsible Authority for this area.
Kent County Council is the Authority responsible for these services and
may hold the information you are seeking. If you have not already done so,
then you may wish to write to them at:
Kent County Council
County Hall
Maidstone
Kent ME14 1XQ
Or email: [1][email address]
Yours Sincerely
Richie McNicol
Information Governance Officer
Legal Services - Medway Council & Gravesham Borough Council
Gun Wharf, Dock Road, Chatham, ME4 4RT
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I am currently working from home Mon –Fri.
This Email, and any attachments, may contain Protected or Restricted
information and is intended solely for the individual to whom it is
addressed. It may contain sensitive or protectively marked material and
should be handled accordingly.
Nothing in this email message amounts to a contractual or other legal
commitment on the part of Medway Council and Gravesham Borough Council. If
this Email has been misdirected, please notify the author immediately. If
you are not the intended recipient you must not disclose, distribute,
copy, print or rely on any of the information contained in it or attached,
and all copies must be deleted immediately.
Whilst we take reasonable steps to try to identify any software viruses,
any attachments to this Email may nevertheless contain viruses which our
anti-virus software has failed to identify. You should therefore carry out
your own anti-virus checks before opening any documents. Medway Council
and Gravesham Borough Council will not accept any liability for damage
caused by computer viruses emanating from any attachment or other document
supplied with this e-mail.
All Medway Council and Gravesham Borough Council and PSN traffic may be
subject to recording and / or monitoring in accordance with relevant
legislation.
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