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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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