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“Public libraries offer the only public space that is free, safe, warm and stimulating… to find things out, to dream, to be someone else for a while or simply to stare into space or fall asleep.”
(Riel, Public Library Journal, 2008)
Over the last 10 years, book borrowing has fallen by 34% and 40 libraries were closed throughout 2007 . In contrast, the number of annual library visits has remained at a constant 288m over the last three years , 30% of self-learners contact libraries for guidance and 87% of respondents to a public consultation felt that a library closure would affect them greatly.
Have we lost sight of everything Riel claims a library can be? What are the modern public perceptions of a library? What, if any, is the role of a library within the community in the 21st century?
This research will be particularly interested in finding out what will make the modern public library be ‘the living room of the city’ and the ‘club for everyone’ well into this century.
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1. (Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountability, 2008)2. (The Independent, 2008)3. (The Independent, 2008)4. (National Adult Learning Survey, 2005)5. (Buckinghamshire City Council Government report, 2006)
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People to make initial contact with
Joe Couzens, librarian at St. Paul’s libraryBarbara Vine’s husband, Stuart Taylor, who works as a ‘supply librarian’Andy Gray’s mother worked as a librarian for 20 yearsUWE faculty librarianWill contact Bristol City Council councillor as well as a librarian at the central branch.
Each person will be interviewed with qualitative and quantitative measures to gain insights.
Direct Observation
Video footage: What is the Consumer Experience?What do libraries represent on an emotional level?Spotting blatant and latent needs through thoughtless acts and unconscious gestures
Emotional Interviews
Focus groups: the public and their library experience, why and how they use it.Focus groups: librarians and their thoughts about libraries.
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Quantitative Data such as statistics, surveys and facts:
Office National Statistics.
CILIP (The Chartered Institute of Library and Informational Professionals).
REPORT: Grindlay, DJC., Morris, A. (2004) The decline in adult book lending in UK public libraries and its possible causes, II statistical analysis, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University.
Qualitative Data including articles, reports and journals:
Public Library Journal, available from the UWE library from Autumn 2008 back to Spring 1986.
REPORT: Grindlay, DJC., Morris, A. (2004) The decline in adult book lending in UK public libraries and its possible causes. I literature review, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University.
ARTICLE: Goulding, A. (2006) Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Public Libraries in England: A valuable public service or a service in distress?
ARTICLE: Page, B. (2008) There’s more to libraries than lending, The Bookseller 2/8/08 issue 5318 p30-31.
REPORT: MORI, (2002) Perceptions of Libraries, for the Audit Commission.
ARTICLE: Savage, M. (2008) The Big Question: Does the decline in book lending spell the end for the public library, The Independent, 16/01/08.
REPORT: Audit Commission. (2002) Building Better Library Services.
REPORT: Leadbetter, C. (2003) How to create a modern public library system, on behalf of DEMOS.
There are a lot of newspaper opinion around libraries and education all of which can be found through Lexis Nexis, Mintel and the local library.
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Individual Project
Concept Recording 2.25 months
Design Brief POTENTIAL hand-in
Research Brief: Hand In
Research Phase I
Explore BCC library services ONLINE 2 days ?
Get RESEARCH KIT 1d?
Primary
Organise a contact within BCC library Services 1d?
Organise initial contact with Barbara V's husband 1d?
Organise Initial Contact with faculty Librarian 1d?
Personal Library Experience 1d
Secondary
Deconstruct sample research briefs 1d?
Explore eResources vial ATHENS 3 days ?
Explore UWE library services ONLINE 1 week ?
Read all available Public Library Journals on UWE shelves 3 days
Read all the Audit Commission reports 2.2 weeks ?
Set up and start documenting WAR ROOM 1d?
Research Phase II
Primary II
Define Simple Questionaire for library Users 1d?
Interview Barbara V's Husband 1d?
Interview Librarian 1d?
Secondary II
Ask Nikki to help w/ Emotional and Qualitative Questionairin… 1d?
Research Phase III (future)
Primary III 1 week ?
Primary IV 1 week ?
Primary V 1 week ?
Secondary III 4 days ?
Secondary IV 1 week ?
Secondary V 1 week ?
Write Design Brief 1.4 weeks ?
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