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ARC / PUBLIC SERVICE NETWORK

Public Libraries

Public Libraries brings together habitat libraries, transit reading services and open knowledge access.

ARCcommissionUnion-wide competence

The public purpose

Public Libraries brings together habitat libraries, transit reading services and open knowledge access.

Operational teams

ARC.02.01
Habitat libraries

Support public libraries as maintained local institutions with usable collections and civic access.

ARC.02.02
Transit reading services

Provide reading and learning access during journeys despite offline and changing schedules.

ARC.02.03
Open knowledge access

Make public knowledge reusable with accurate provenance and understandable licence scope.

Programme responsibilities

Assessment evidence
Habitat library agreement; Transit reading service plan; Open knowledge access finding
Accountable output
Public Libraries integrated programme finding
Programme custodian
Public Libraries
Independent review
Union Ombudsman

Requests and referrals

SVC-045
Request public records

An accessible record release or reasoned restriction.

SVC-049
Create a public habitat library

A public knowledge service charter with offline access.

INT-010
Transfer a public archive on closure

A documented archival succession instrument.

Public Libraries / division of work

ARC.02.01

Habitat libraries

Support public libraries as maintained local institutions with usable collections and civic access.

Accountable output
Habitat library agreement
ARC.02.02

Transit reading services

Provide reading and learning access during journeys despite offline and changing schedules.

Accountable output
Transit reading service plan
ARC.02.03

Open knowledge access

Make public knowledge reusable with accurate provenance and understandable licence scope.

Accountable output
Open knowledge access finding

Authority for public libraries integrated programme finding

Subject-specific assessment
A habitat library's ownership changes and the collection becomes private stock
Shared legal framework
Archives, Libraries & Memory Commission / powers
Handling complaint
Union Ombudsman
Contested legal finding
Union Court of Justice

Choose your route

Office output: Public Libraries integrated programme finding