Dear All,
I am currently completing my dissertation for my masters at Northumbria University and require ten
participants who are able to answer questions sent to them around
mid-March and then again approximately around the end of April. (Dates to
be finalised). Following is a brief description of what will be required
of a participant.
I will be conducting a Delphi study for my dissertation which will
hopefully have ten participants who are all High School Librarians from
different areas around the country. The purpose of the study is to
collect opinions on the future of the high school library. There will be
two rounds of questions for the study. The first round will ask a series
of questions which will obtain individual opinions, then the second round
will repeat the same questions again but the respondent will be supplied
with the anonymous answers from the first round, to see if this would
alter their perspective in any way. The overall purpose is to see if the
ten respondents can achieve a consensus view to each question.
The questions asked will be to identify if teenagers will use books for
information research or whether the future will be the internet and / or
electronic books. To identify if the changes in government policies and
the recent budget cuts will lead to high school libraries being full of
old, irrelevant and out-dated books. To identify if it is the individual
school which dictates whether the battle between books or the internet
will win, where the most spending occurs, or is it possible to have an
equal balance of both within a school?
Please contact me at [log in to unmask] if you are able to participate.
Thank you
Claire Stevens
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