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| Id | 686 | |
| Author | Higgs G., Jones S., Langford M., Heley J. | |
| Title | Assessing the impacts of changing public service provision on geographical accessibility: An examination of public library provision in Pembrokeshire, South Wales | |
| Reference | Higgs G., Jones S., Langford M., Heley J.; Assessing the impacts of changing public service provision on geographical accessibility: An examination of public library provision in Pembrokeshire, South Wales ;Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space vol:36.0 issue: 3.0 page:548.0 |
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| Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85045398624&doi=10.1177%2f2399654417715457&partnerID=40&md5=e29746481c06a0f2691d192dd8d99bab |
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| Abstract | Public libraries make an important contribution to the wellbeing of local people often acting as community hubs by reducing the isolation felt by vulnerable members of society through promoting social interaction and supporting the wider needs of local communities. However, access to libraries is threatened in Wales, as elsewhere in the UK, by uncertainty stemming from changes in local government service delivery models, austerity-driven cuts in public spending, changing demands on the service from the public and the potential impacts of new developments in digital services and technologies. Drawing on network-based analysis of changes to library services in a predominantly rural authority in South-West Wales, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate how Geographical Information Systems can be used to monitor the impacts of alternative models of provision currently being considered by library authorities. By examining the spatial impacts of changes in services following a period of re-configuration in this library authority, we point the way to methods that enable levels of provision that meet community needs to be sought during times of budgetary pressures and proposed changes to the delivery of public services. © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. |
Public libraries make an important contribution to the wellbeing of local people often acting as community hubs by reducing the isolation felt by vulnerable members of society through promoting social interaction and supporting the wider needs of local communities. Library attractiveness was gauged by the level of book stock and an access score calculated and then compared to an easier to compute and conceptually familiar measure based on distance to the nearest library. This has resulted in on-going discussions and public engagement processes geared to reviewing the future of libraries in Pembrokeshire in relation to community needs and the potential co-location of local authority services. From September membership of a local library service permitted customers to use or join other public library services in other authority areas. The types of tools described in this study based on floating catchment area models build on the earlier research based on gravity models developed by Ottensmann amongst others by including supply-side parameters such as the opening hours/minutes for each library service point whilst permitting all libraries in the threshold catchment to compete for consumers.
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