The Way Forward
Customer Charter
Bath & North East Somerset Library + Information Service
will make every effort to:
- Make the network of services accessible to all individuals in
the community and be efficient, effective & courteous in
serving customers
- Publicise information about the service in plain English in a
variety of formats
- Provide a welcoming, inspiring and appropriately facilitated
environment for individuals and communities to access resources for
information, learning & leisure
- Ensure resources cover an appropriate range of subjects and are
available in a variety of formats & languages to reflect the
needs of the community and individuals within
- Look for ways to improve and develop services through review in
comparison to other similar services nationally &
internationally and through consultation with our customers
- Respond to customer comments and put things right quickly if we
get them wrong
Did you know that Bath & North East Somerset Library +
Information Service has:
- Over a quarter of a million books in stock
- More than 15,000 videos, DVDs & CDs
- Access to more than 2 million items on the Foursite Consortium
library catalogue
- Over a million items borrowed in 2002
- Around 100,000 enquiries made every year
- More than three quarters of a million visits every
year
And that
- 60% of local people hold a public library ticket
- Visiting libraries is the fifth most popular national pastime –
more popular than football matches or the cinema
A special thank you to all customers who kindly agreed to
appear in this publication
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