MY RESEARCH
By Ella-Rose Smith
Introduction
The topic that we had to choose a question about was literature and
libraries. So I thought of a few different question ideas such as:
Does Shakespearian language affect our English today?, Are libraries
closing down too quickly?, The affect of library closures on preschool children? And Does acting help your English?
But I finally decided on: What's peoples attitude towards library
closures?
My question!
Methodology
For my research I only used questionnaires to find out my
information.
I had 22 people participate in my research (12 were female and 10
were male), among the 22 people 59% were older than 40 and
41%were under 4o, the age range was from 3-80+ years of age.
Question Examples:
How old are you?
Do you have a
library card?
How badly would it
impact your life if the
library was to close
down?
How many
times a week
do you go to
the library?
Would you have
access to another
library if needs be?
How would you
feel if your local
library closed?
Research Ethics
For my research ethics I got everyone who participated in my
research to fill in one of my consent forms. This way it keeps
everyone's information/data anonymous.
I did not tell any lies or deceive people.
I also respect people and their choices while taking part in this.
Thematic Analysis
Wouldn’t like it
I wouldn’t
like it at
all
As you can
see I have
coded a
few of the
open
ended
questions.
Quiet
sad
sad
codes in red
sad
I would be
very sad
upset
devastating
devastating
awful
It would
be awful
disappointed
Would be
very
disappointed
Not
good
Great
shame
shame
Tally charts
These are some tables to show the answers to
closed ended and Likert-scale questions.
Results
How badly would it impact you if the
library closed?
How badly would it impact you if the library closed?
not much
a bit
badly
terribly
3
10
4
4
For my results I put every piece of
information into a table and then
transferred it onto a graph to look
like the one displayed above.
Number of people answered
Results
how would you feel if your local library
closed?
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
10%
Codes
In this graph it shows that the
most common answer would be
sad.
90%
This pie chart shows that
more than 90% of people
who visit the library have a
library card.
Number of people
This chart shows that most
people think that the village
library is good and would
dislike it to close down.
Number of people
Results
Lots of people would have
access to another library but
there are some elderly
citizens that wouldn’t have
access to another one at all.
The answer
So I have found out that the answer to my question here it is:
What's peoples attitude
towards library closures?
People would feel sad,
upset and annoyed!
Different?
What would I do different next time?
Well next time I would try and do a few more different methods
rather than just questionnaires.
The next thing I would want to find out would be,
Why are libraries closing so quickly?
Thank you for watching!