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No. 25: Visual Materials Cataloging 22-26 July 1996 |
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1. How useful were the pre-course readings?![]() 1: Very useful, the base of the course. 2: Very, very valuable. 3: Very useful for class and will be helpful for reference and training of staff in my department later. 4: Very applicable, in fact, right on target! 5: Excellent sampling of both theoretical and practical articles. 6: Very useful ![]() ![]() |
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2. Were the course syllabus and other materials distributed in class useful (or will they be so in the future, after you return home)?![]() 1: Very useful; possibly of more use in the future. 2: Yes! 3: Yes. 4: Yes, very useful. 5: Syllabus was integrated well into class activities and a great reference guide to use upon returning. Sample records and other material handed out will also be of use. 6: Yes. 7: Very. 8: Yes, the new materials from LC were especially useful. 9: The sheets of examples, rules, explanations were very useful and I'm sure I'll refer to them a lot. The syllabus is a keeper. The more MARC examples, the better! |
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3. Was the intellectual level of the course content appropriate?![]() 1: Appropriate. 2: Yes. 3: Yes. 4: Yes, very stimulating. 5: Yes. 6: Yes. 7: Extremely appropriate. 8: Right on target for me. Good balance of description problems and content analysis problems. Excellent examples to illustrate the range of materials we might encounter out in the world. 9: Yes ![]() |
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4. If your course had field trips, were they effective? [The course made a day trip to the Library of Congress and toured Special Collections in Alderman Library..] ![]() 1: Yes. The trip provided a good break while also having great value for the types of information gathered from the different situations. 2: Yes. The chance to learn about decisions and policies in the context of a collection and its staff was extremely valuable. 3: Yes ![]() ![]() |
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5. Did the actual course content correspond to its RBS brochure description and Expanded Course Description (ECD)? Did the course in general meet your expectations?![]() 1: The class met my expectations. Perhaps there was a wider range of content than was indicated in the descriptions. 2-9: Yes. |
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6. What did you like best about the course?![]() 1: JD. 2: The combination of approaches ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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7. How could the course have been improved?![]() 1: Shoe-horning in other issues concerning graphic material, curatorship, conservation, classification while maintaining the focus on cataloging. 2: Add more time on post-coordination of AAT terms. 3: I can't think how ![]() |
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8. Please comment at will on the quality/enjoyability of the various RBS activities in which you took part outside of class, eg Sunday afternoon tour, Sunday night dinner and videos, Bookseller Night, tour of the Etext Center or Electronic Classroom, printing demonstrations, evening lectures, &c.![]() 1: Good lectures, content appropriate. 2: Lectures by Greer Allen and Michael Winship were both entertaining and informative. 3: Very nice. Rotunda is always a treat. 4: Only attended one (MW), and it was interesting. The speaker was a little difficult to hear. 5: Well prepared and entertaining. 7: Fine. 8: Did not attend any. After sitting all day, I needed to go to the gym (which is excellent and a good value). |
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9. Any final thoughts?![]() 2: Do the reading and bring examples from home. 3: Wonderful course and instructor. Do the readings. Prepare questions to take advantage of this opportuntiy to discuss these issues with instructor and excellent colleagues here. 4: Need to have background in at least one area of course content (cataloging or archives or visual materials), but not all. 6: No. 7: Every RBS course I've taken has been high quality, but this was the most professionally valuable. Would strongly recommend it to any librarian/archivist with responsiblity for cataloging visual materials 8: I'm angry that my institutiton would not pay for this training which I need to do my job, but still glad I came. 9: I really enjoyed this course. JD was a good instructor and enjoyable to be around. Maybe an advanced version of this course could be offered, too. |
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Number of respondents: 9 |
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There were nine students: two were general librarians with some rare book duties (22%), two were rare book librarians (22%), one was an archivist/manuscript librarian, one was a curator of a city history collection in all formats, one was a photographs archivist, one was a prints cataloger, and one was a special collections librarian (11% each). |