MY RESEARCHBy 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 pre-school 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 many times a week do you go to the library?

How would you feel if your local library closed?

Would you have access to another library if needs be?How badly would it

impact your life if the library was to close down?

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 AnalysisI would be very sad Would be

very disappoint

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Great shame

devastating

I wouldn’t like it at

all

sad

Wouldn’t like it

sad

awfuldisappointed

shame

devastating

upset

Not good

As you can see I have coded a few of the open ended questions.

codes in red

Tally charts

These are some tables to show the answers to closed ended and Likert-scale questions.

ResultsHow badly would it impact you if the library closed?

not much 3a bit 10badly 4terribly 4

How badly would it impact you if the library closed?

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

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how would you feel if your local library closed?

Codes

In this graph it shows that the most common answer would be sad. This pie chart shows

that more than 90% of people who visit the library have a library card.

90%

10%

Results

This chart shows that most people think that the village library is good and would dislike it to close down.

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.

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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!