WHAT I’VE BEEN DOING
Over the last three months I have
been researching children's ideas
and opinions about the Lincroft
school library. I have found out lots
of interesting things and I would
like to share them with you.
HOW/ WHY I CHOSE MY
QUESTION
Nowadays Libraries do lots more than
just lend out books, so I wanted to
find out what people use libraries
the most for.
RESEARCH ETHICS
Before I gave out any questionnaires or
took any observations I got all my
participants to sign a consent form. They
state that I would not share any
information anybody gave me, they could
stop participating at any moment, and
that their name and age would be
completely confidential. Also I did not lie
or twist any words anybody gave me and
I didn’t lie in my questionnaires.
QUESTIONNAIRE
I sent a short questionnaire to 25
people in my Year 7 English class.
The next slides will tell you about
each of my questions, all with a
supporting graph.
CODING
For the open ended question I had to code the
answers in to categories for example:
Negative
Positive
It’s too
busy
HOW OFTEN DO YOU USE THE
SCHOOL LIBRARY?
Unfortunately this graph shows almost one third
of my English class go to the library less than
once a fortnight! 
WHAT DO YOU DO IN THE
LIBRARY?
I found that most people in my English class use
the library for its original purpose: reading! Yay!
WHAT ARE YOUR OPINIONS
ON MOBILE LIBRARIES?
On this question, I found out that although not
many of my class mates had been on a travelling
library, they liked the idea!
HOW LONG DO YOU SPEND IN
THE LIBRARY?
This graph shows that around a 1/3 of my year 7
English class only spend around 10 minutes in
the Lincroft school library per visit.
WHAT ARE YOUR OPINIONS
ON THE SCHOOL LIBRARY?
For this question I had to code the answers, as I had
over 20 different responses!
WHAT IMPROVEMENTS COULD
BE MADE TO THE SCHOOL
LIBRARY?
For this question, I was very interested to see
my classmates comments. As you can see I had
a range of answers.
LIBRARIES ARE BENEFICIAL
TO CHILDREN AND ADULTS.
This question was a likert scale question. This means
that the participants had to choose an answer that best
suited their opinion.
OBSERVATIONS
I spent one lunch time observing four
different people over a 10 minute
period. They were all year 7’s and
they were 2 boys and 2 girls. Each
time they moved on to a different
activity, I counted that as one time.
Here are my results.
OBSERVATIONS
This graph shows that each person did very different
things. Also most the things they did where book related
e.g. looking for books and reading.
MY ANSWER
Looking at all my data I thing the reason
people use the school library is because
they find it a quiet, calm and nice place
they can go to relax read or do work.
Also I think many people enjoy using the
library. On the other hand I also think
that some people do not appreciate the
quality of their local library and they
don’t know how lucky the are to have so
many good facilities around them.
I would like to give a special thank you to Dr
Cindy Kerawalla, Mrs Doyle and Miss Smith for
all the support and help while I was doing this
project. Their help was greatly appreciated!
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING!
I hope you enjoyed finding out about
my research!