Your Right To Know

Victory! I managed to get hold of the British Library’s wifi contract. As of today, you will NOT find this contract, or even this FOIA request listed on the British Library’s disclosure log? Why? I’ve no idea. Why not ask the British Library!

Anyway - here is the contract. It came double-sided, so I’ve scanned in first the odd and then even pages. You can print off both documents for the full contract (though some of it has been redacted).

Service Agreement for public wireless local area service between British Library and Building Zones (BZ)

• odd pages (PDF 791kb)
• even pages (PDF 875kb)

Here’s how it all began:

• British Library Response (25 January 2005) (PDF 351kb)
• FOIA Request (2 January 2005)
• British Library response (15 November 2004) (PDF 168 kb)
• Open Government Code (21 October 2004)

You can find more detail about this campaign in the Request Diary under the post ‘British Library Wi-Fi Access’.