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British Library wi-fi fees under fire. Commercial details of wi-fi service revealed after campaigning author uses FoI Act, writes Mark Chillingworth.(Freedom of Information Act)
Wireless internet access at the British Library (BL) has come under fire after details of the service's provision emerged using the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act.
Author and library user Heather Brooke has obtained the service agreement documents for wi-fi access at the BL, and is campaigning for costs to be slashed.
Brooke is unhappy that wireless internet access at the St Pancras site is supplied by a private company and is expensive to use. "For them to grant a monopoly to a private company is wrong," she said in an interview with IWR. "It is like an entry fee. A library is a free public resource, but if you want to access electronic resources at the library you are forced to pay."
Brooke, who recently published the FoI guide Your Right to Know, hopes to start a debate on the public being charged for wi-fi access to public resources. BL charges [pounds sterling]4.50 for an hour's usage, while calls to a helpdesk cost 50p per minute.
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