Sarling, J. H., & Van Tassel, D. S. (1999). Community analysis: Research that matters to a north-central Denver community.

• What did researchers discover when they talked to representatives from the local school district?

The researchers talked to local principal and a school librarian about education in that area and found out there were complex problems in busing students, such as changing operation area every year. It effected on both students and parents in negative ways (makes parents tired of picking up their children, unable to join school activities for students, long bus rides).
“While the 1990 Census indicates an existing problem, those statistics so not reflect the gravity of the situation.” (p. 18)

• List some recommendations made by the researchers upon completion of their study.

They made several recommendations cover from external form to policies in that libraries.

- “We strongly recommended a continuation of the library’s visible presence begun during the Community Analysis.”
- “To counter these feelings of mistrust [feelings of residents towards library], we recommend that the design of the branch be a building with a permanent, solid… “
- “The research elicited information suggesting a variety of library policies”
(p. 21)

• With whom did they share their study, and who requested copies? Why? List some examples, both expected and unexpected.

- “The written report of our community analysis was given to all interested parties, including the City Librarian, Library Commissioners, … during our investigation”
- “copies of the report have been requested by many people including the Swansea Elementary School principal who was facing an important School Board decision, … and a regional library director who wants librarians in his area to learn how to practice community analysis.” (p. 23)

• Who is Pilar-Casto-Reino? Why is she important?

- “Almost four years after the analysis was begun, we interviewed Pilar Castro-Reino, the Outreach Librarian for the Valdez-Perry Branch of the Denver Public Library to evaluate our recommendation." (p. 24)
- From the interview, she showed how she followed the recommendation that researchers suggested, and proved the development according to the analysis result.