Dear All
Hello, I’m a Japanese LIS researcher studying public library policy in
UK. Please let me know the details of the number of public library
service points in 2011-12, which was recently released by the CIPFA
and also reported by some newspaper articles.
Latest Public Library Statistics Released: CIPFA statistics
http://www.cipfastats.net/news/newsstory.asp?content=14508
(You have to register to see the tables including the number of service points)
UK lost more than 200 libraries in 2012: The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/10/uk-lost-200-libraries-2012?CMP=twt_gu
According the CIPFA website, the number of service points has been changed:
4612 in 2009-10
4466 in 2010-11
4265 in 2011-12
I would like to know whether the latest number, 4265 in 2011-12,
include the service points opening less than 10 hours per week. The
latest printed statistics, 2011-12 actuals, has not been arrived to
any libraries in Japan.
According the past printed statistics, the number in 2009-10 cited
above (4612) include the service points opening less than 10 hours per
week, but the number in 2010-11 (4466) exclude them. In 2010-11, the
number of service points opening less than 10 hours per week is 126,
so the total is 4592.
I am wondering why the numbers which have different nature are
compared in the CIPFA website.
Kind regards
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Chie SUGA
School of Library and Information Science
Keio University
JAPAN
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