May 23, 2011
More than 2,000 people have visited this blog in the last few weeks and the number of people completing the questionnaire on the future of Warwickshire’s Library and Information Service has now topped 3,000 people.
To date, 3,019 people have completed the questionnaire, of these 1,707 have completed the online questionnaire, while 1,312 have completed the written paper version.
April 1, 2011
The first fortnight of the Library and Information Service consultation on the proposed future of the service has seen 50 people complete written questionnaires, 190 have completed the online survey, and this blog, launched just a week ago, has attracted approaching 1,000 visits.
In addition to this there has been other written correspondence, including 150 individually written letters from the school children at Kingsbury Prmary School.
So far the respondents to the online survey are, in the main, visitors to Bulkington, Warwick and Leamington libraries.
The Warwickshire Library and Information Service proposals identify 16 Warwickshire libraries that are no longer sustainable in their current form, alongside other cost-cutting measures including reduced opening hours, reductions in the mobile library fleet and workforce, and cutting the number of public computers across the library network.
The 12-week public consultation began on March 18 and will run until June 9. A roadshow will visit all 34 Warwickshire libraries during the consultation period so people can find out more and ask questions face-to-face. Senior officers and a councillor will also attend a series of public meetings countywide.
The next roadshow is today at Wolston Library from 2pm until 5pm, tomorrow (Saturday) there is a roadshow at Binley Woods Library from 10am until 1pm, and Monday there is a roadshow at Lillington Library from 10am until 1pm.
The information now available online , includes a factsheet for every Warwickshire library, giving details of visits, loan issues and costs, along with comparative performance figures across the network, and the Cabinet report county councillors considered on March 17.
Communities considering volunteer-run library services will have the facts and figures they need at their fingertips. People who don’t have access to the internet can request paper copies from any of Warwickshire’s 34 libraries, or from Shire Hall in Warwick.
The consultation questionnaire is available in all Warwickshire libraries and online.
Feedback received during the consultation will be collated, analysed and reported to Warwickshire County Council Cabinet on July 14 so councillors are fully informed before they make any final decisions.
