Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Evaluation Results Available

We had great responses to the evaluations for the full day. I've compiled the results and have included a summary of responses, comments and suggestions for future workshops. Enjoy! Joseph
Full Day Evaluations

Responses:
Very Good – 34
Good – 25
Average – 2
Below Average – 0

Comments
· I was mostly just motivated to go out and connect with other librarians
· This program was very well organized & useful—Thank you!
· It would be nice to have some pre-prepared outlines of workshop as starting points
· Better communication ahead of registration of what, where and when.
· I didn’t know about blog until at the end of the day
· Too many objectives were covered
· More time for examples and interactive activities
· Would have separated the trainers from participants, because of the many questions
· Create a web presence for these workshops and materials…
· I would have liked more time on teaching techniques
· Presentation tips great
· Not enough time to learn cataloguing—should have been a 2 day workshop
· More PowerPoint slides of handouts
· More hands-on activities
· More practical information for collection development—less theoretical info
· Well organized and presented
· Would like to have copies of the slides available on the blog
· Don’t mix the trainees with the students, or ask them not to be active participants
· Online content that I can review at home
· Not enough time for the cataloguing workshops
· More hands on work
· Coffee at morning break
· Well done MLA for engaging and successful pre-conference workshop!

Workshop suggestions
· Cataloguing scores (several suggestions for this)
· Music librarianship for people without specific music training (several for this)
· Music acquisitions on a small budget
· Subject headings for music (several)
· Music Uniform Titles workshop (several)
· Copyright for music (several)
· E-Reference
· Online resources
· Archival sound recording cataloguing
· Teaching techniques (a few)
· Fundraising and gifts
· Digitization 101 (several suggestions)
· Information Literacy for Music
· World Music Workshop
· Popular Music Workshop
· Manuscripts Cataloguing
· Video cataloguing

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