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Dear Camden Borough Council,

I would like to make a Freedom of Information request for the following:

1. What were the total number of books borrowed by library users during:
a) 1st April 2018 to 31st March 2019
b) 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020
c) 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021

2. What is the total value of current outstanding library fines?

3. What is the total value of library fines written off in the financial year 2020-21?

Yours faithfully,

Kasper Gorny

FOI, Camden Borough Council

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Dear Mr Gorny.

 

Thank you for your request.  We are dealing with this as a routine request
rather than formally as a Freedom of Information Act request so we can
provide you with a faster and less formal response. 

There are a number of responses regarding your request already published
on our Open Data Portal - Open Data Camden
[1]https://opendata.camden.gov.uk/browse

Please click on the following link and enter ‘library’ or ‘libraries’ in
the ‘find in this dataset’ search field to view them, particularly CAM452
and CAM655.

 

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Kind regards,

 

 

Kieran Heneghan  
Information Rights Officer

London Borough of Camden

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Dear Camden Borough Council,

I would like to make a Freedom of Information request for the following:

1. What were the total number of books borrowed by library users during:
a) 1st April 2018 to 31st March 2019
b) 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020
c) 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021

2. What is the total value of current outstanding library fines?

3. What is the total value of library fines written off in the financial
year 2020-21?

Yours faithfully,

Kasper Gorny

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