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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Hello Immanuel
Please find attached the Council’s response to the above referenced
Freedom of Information request.
Regards
Paula
Paula Jennings
Property Information Officer
Property & Estate Management
Growth Directorate
Dear FOI Team,
Thank you for your reply! Unfortunately, I don't see my request answered adequately. The Arts Council dataset contains opening hours only for 2022. Thus the information on opening hours is missing for every year from 2005 - 2021. I am most interested in this information and would thus kindly ask you if you could provide this data?
Yours sincerely,
Immanuel Feld
Hello Immanuel
Thank you for your email. Are you asking for an Internal Review and if so, please can you provide the reference number allocated to the request when we originally received it.
Many thanks
FOI Administrator for Growth Directorate
On behalf of Warrington Borough Council
Dear FOI Team,
since providing you with the FOI reference number on April 13, I am waiting for a response. Could you let me know if I should send the FOI again?
Yours sincerely,
Immanuel Feld
Hello Immanuel
Apologies for the delay in responding. Are you asking for an Interna Review? If so, I can forward your email to the appropriate mailbox.
Regards
FOI Administrator for Growth Directorate
On behalf of Warrington Borough Council
Hello Immanuel
Apologies for the delay in actioning this. Any Freedom of Information
response, issued by Warrington Borough Council, includes a standard
paragraph detailing the steps that any requestor should take if they are
not satisfied with the response provided. This includes the details of the
specific mailbox for requesting an Internal Review.
However, I am hopeful that the new revised response attached to this email
is satisfactory and that you will, therefore, no longer feel an Internal
Review to be necessary.
Unfortunately, the delay in providing you with this second response was
caused by an oversight on my part as the documents were provided to me,
but I omitted to forward them on to you. I would like to personally
apologise for this error.
Please note that recent guidance from the Information Commissioner's
Office (ICO) recommends that any data provided is not in a spreadsheet
format. This is due to several data leaks caused when spreadsheets with
hidden columns have been issued. For more information on this please
visit the ICO's website and in particular [1]the advisory note that has
been published.
Kind Regards
FOI Administrator for Growth Directorate
On behalf of Warrington Borough Council
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