Newcastle City Council

Monthly loan figures (number of items issued) by branch library for April 2008 to present.   Additional information An issue is any item issued from the library catalogue Blank means no data available In 2020, all libraries closed from 19 March included due to the coronavirus outbreak. The re-opening of our libraries remained inline with government restrictions from July 2020 and responsive to local need, with many variations during the...

Monthly computer usage figures by branch library from April 2008 to present. Additional information Given as a percentage of the total available time computers can be booked. BIPC is the Business & IP Centre based within the City Library. Blank means no data available. In 2020, all libraries closed from 19 March included due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Newcastle Libraries began to re-open from 12th April 2021 and figures will not be rep...

Time each library opens and closes each day of the week.Data starts in 2004, with updated list every time the opening times of one library or more change. Note: some changes, especially in the earlier years of this dataset, may be missing.   Additional information Benwell reopened as West End Library 17/11/08. Gosforth closed in temporary accommodation 02/12/07 reopened 17/12/07. High Heaton closed 15/09/07 reopened as mobile 01/10...

Monthly usage figures for online resources including databases and e-book platforms when available, for January 2005 to present. Additional information Blank means no data available In 2020, all library buildings closed from 19 March included due to the coronavirus outbreak. Resources included : description {minimum dates of subscription} What the figure is 19th Century British Library Newspapers : digital newspaper archive {May 20...

The Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017 require all local planning authorities in England to prepare and maintain registers of brownfield land that is suitable for residential development. This register identifies sites within Newcastle City Council local authority area.

Monthly number of people visiting (entering) a library; by branch from April 2008 to present. We advise you to explore this data alongside our opening times data set, which shows changes in opening hours over the years.   Additional information Blank means no data available. In 2020, all libraries closed from 19 March included due to the coronavirus outbreak. Fenham Library: from end of August 2018 to early December 2018 Fenham Library ...

Monthly enquiry figures by branch library for April 2008 to present. Additional information In 2020, all libraries closed from 19 March included due to the coronavirus outbreak. Until 8 April 2018 an enquiry was defined as any question asked of library staff by a member of the public.What we record as an enquiry was first redefined in a narrower way on 9 April 2018, then reviewed several times over the following months. From 1 September...

Monthly number of unique users who connected to Newcastle Libraries Wi-Fi from April 2019 to present. Additional notes No login is required for the Wi-Fi; users do not need to be library members to connect to the network. There is no data for Walker Library as it does not have its own Wi-Fi; citizens visiting the library use the Walker Activity Dome Wi-Fi network. Only partial data is available for April 2019.

Extract from the Library Management System (LMS) showing the items held in the libraries' catalogue. Due to a change of LMS in 2018 different fields are available from 2018 onwards.   Additional information 2019- data barcode = unique number allocated to each copy on our system biblionumber = unique number attached to title by our system when creating the title record isbn = International Standard Book Number, attached to title by publi...

Extract from the Library Management System (LMS) showing the libraries' catalogue of titles held in the collections. Due to a change of LMS in 2018 different fields are available from 2018 onwards.   Additional information 2019- data biblionumber = unique number attached to title by our system when creating the title record isbn = International Standard Book Number, attached to title by publisher copyrightdate = year from which copyrigh...