Adrian
that is my reading of the Directive, too. I am not, though, a lawyer.
Under that reading, the sorts of information that I was talking about would
appear to fall fair and square within scope.
We potentially do ourselves an awful lot of (different) favours by getting our
collective act together to disclose this type of information up front, rather
than running around trying to fulfil a barrage of PSI (and some FOI) requests.
We might also help a real live user to find something they wanted... :-)
Paul
Quoting Adrian R D Norman <[log in to unmask]>:
> It seems to me that the PSI Directive will apply from July 5 to all public
> libraries, but only to the small subset of information which is not deemed
> to be covered by the exemptions for:
>
> Education and Research Establishments and
> Cultural establishments.
>
> If the information is held or provided by a public sector body which
> supports or provides services to a library, such as the London Libraries
> Development Agency or a Local Authority, it will presumably constitute PSI
> within the meaning of the Act.
>
> Has anyone assessed the implications and provided guidelines on how to
> respond to requests for such information for commercial reuse?
>
> Adrian Norman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Clarke
> Sent: 20 May 2005 16:42
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Reliably locating UK libraries for the public ?
>
> London Libraries Development Agency led the development of this resource
> on behalf of the 33 London local authorities
>
> http://www.londonlibraries.org.uk/will/default.aspx
>
> It includes maps, opening hours, access information, details of any
> special collections and is linked to a search tool for all London public
> library catalogues (well, almost all - it will shortly be completed
> with the addition of the remaining couple of authorities not currently
> on board).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Paul Miller
> Sent: 20 May 2005 16:17
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Reliably locating UK libraries for the public ?
>
>
> All
>
> can anyone who provides such data for their own institution give me an
> idea of the range of places to which UK libraries routinely send things
> like their address, opening hours, etc? Is the picture very different
> for public and private institutions?
>
> On the flip-side, does anyone have anything better than a gut feel for
> how their visitors discover where they are? Is there a single definitive
> source to which someone might turn in search of a library (how
> comprehensive are some of the paper directories, for example, and do
> members of the public use the service finders on their local authority's
> web site)?
>
> Does the Public Sector Information Directive coming on-stream in July
> change anything?
>
> I'm interested in the ways in which the cultural sector disseminates
> basic information about itself, and if the rise of third party services
> such as Google Maps (and the interesting applications people are
> beginning to build upon it) perhaps offers tools that we might harness
> to our advantage.
>
> There's a more detailed post on this topic, with some examples, on one
> of the Common Information Environment's (CIE) blogs at
> www.common-info.org.uk/thoughts/archives/2005/05/more_thoughts_o_1.html
>
> Thanks in advance for any information that you can provide.
>
> Paul
>
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