I think a few different questionnaires would serve this study best. We need to reach a number of different groups of people, to get a large scope of ideas and feedback.
--Questionnaire for shelter workers
-This would be a questionnaire for those who are currently working with victims of DV. What do these volunteers think would be helpful for the women they help? Are there library resources that they feel would be useful? Can they see using the library as a neutral space for meetings, or in other ways?
--Questionnaire/interviews of victims/survivors
-I would like to reach out to survivors of DV, as well as women who are in the midst of escaping such situations. Ideally this would be done with anonymous questionnaires to be distributed at shelters, but would be supplemented by interviews. Questions would focus around what these women feel would be helpful to someone getting out of a DV situation--what resources they wished they had had/been aware of, would they have used the library if they had felt this was an area of help/resource
--Questionnaire of library staff
-How open are library staff to incorporating this kind of help into their library? Are there additional personnel issues (increased security, etc) or concerns? What kind of education or training would need to take place? How aware are they of their existing resources, and how to repurpose those resources for DV victims?
targeting different 'stakeholders' seems a useful approach to me.
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