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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Corporate Information Governance Team
Worcestershire County Council
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Request For Information #1544972
Dear Immanuel Feld
Request for Information – Freedom of Information Act 2000 / Environmental
Information Regulations 2004
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Yours sincerely
Corporate Information Governance Team (CIGT)
Worcestershire County Council
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FOI Request #1544972 Response
Dear Immanuel Feld
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST REGARDING: 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.
We have completed our response to this Freedom of Information Request,
please see the letter attached for further information.
Yours sincerely,
Kaia Hilliker
Worcestershire County Council
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of email for lawful business purposes.
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