1)How useful were the pre-course readings? 1: My course had none. 3: Generally. 5: I read some of the pre-course readings, but the course instruction did not really require preparatory reading. 6: Very helpful - gave exposure to the vocabulary, concepts, and etext Web page. 7: OK. 8: Some-what useful, but we probably should have been asked to become familiar with most of this stuff, rather than to read it (with some obvious exceptions). 9: Reading was a bit premature for me. I did not have any experience (direct) with electronic texts. 10: Very helpful. Having some familiarity with all the course content allowed me to never fall behind throughout the week. 11: OK. 2) Were the course syllabus and other materials distributed in class useful (or will they be so in the future, after you return home)? 1-2: Yes. 3: Greatly. 4: Yes. 5: Very useful. 6-8: Yes. 9: Yes, very relevant. However, since most were printouts from the Etext Center's [Web] pages, the paper could have been saved. 10: Yes - materials will be useful reference sources when I return. 11: Yes. 3) Was the intellectual level of the course content appropriate? 1-2: Yes. 3: Exactly. 4-7: Yes. 8: Absolutely. 9: Yes. I considered it a survey course. 10: Very. Our instructor adapted the course, seemingly, to suit everyone's needs. 11: Yes. 4) If your course had field trips, were they effective? 1: Yes. 3: Absolutely. 4-8: Yes. 9: Two field trips were relevant and useful. 11: Yes. 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: Yes. 3: Absolutely. 4-8: Yes. 9: I believe so. 10-11: Yes. 6) What did you like best about the course? 1: Its strength was its instructor, who is very knowledgeable. 3: The professionalism, complete knowledge, and teaching competence of the instructor. 4: Hands-on opportunity. 5: Time slots were well organized. (One break both in the morning and in the afternoon helped me be awake.) The instruction was very clear and well prepared. 6: Very interesting presentations. Well-organized curriculum. Good opportunity for hands-on and active participation. Expertise of instructor. Pleasantness of instructor. Knowledgeable and articulate and helpful classmates. 7: Hard to say - the content is exciting, but DS made it live. So, I guess I'd say the instructor. 8: Studying with someone who a) knows his stuff, b) loves the stuff, c) is able both to teach the stuff and communicate the enthusiasm. 9: I was given enough information and experience (hands-on) to create TEI documents so I am able to make a decision about the management of grant money received to create electronic texts. In my position, I will not be creating these texts, but I am better able to evaluate the project's needs. 10: We covered a lot of information, had the satisfaction of digitizing an actual letter. DS was really great and made a difficult subject understandable and challenging. 11: Broad view of project management issues. 7) How could the course have been improved? 3: Beyond implementing a second, intermediate level, version, I can think of nothing. 4: More tagging - another letter each - or an EAD document. Maybe work in teams of two to negotiate levels of intensity of tagging. 5: Keep the number of participants as small as possible. 7: Someone could have sat on one of the students who kept trying to digress. 8: Might have limited in-class discussion relating to one participant's particular situation. 9: More hands-on experience - scanning - another transcription. 10: I'm not sure that it could be. 8) Please comment 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, evening lectures, Bookseller Night, tour of the Alderman digital/electronic centers, &c. 1: Sunday night's dinner was high priced for what we were fed. I won't do that again! 3: Well thought out, instructive, pleasurable. 4: Enjoyed the dinner, videos, lectures, Bookseller Night - these were the ones that I participated in. 5: I found that the evening lectures had an approximately appropriate length. If they had been longer than one hour, I could not have been able to get to class on time the following morning. 6: Very nice to have the additional events - including coffee breaks - to get to mingle with students and faculty in other courses. 7: All were high quality. 8: LOVED the pen ruling video. Excellent lecture Wednesday [Paul Needham]. Very sweet talk on Thursday [TB]. 9: The Special Collections exhibit was great! Lectures were helpful, but I prefer tours and hands-on activities. 10: The tour was fun - the only one I took while I was here, so I'm glad that it was offered. Dinner was a nice ice breaker. Bookseller Night was a nice opportunity to see a bit of Charlottesville. 9) Any final thoughts? Did you get your money's worth? 1: I will recommend the course (though not the Sunday night high-priced dinner!). 3: Excellent; highly recommended! 4-5: Yes, I got my money's worth. 6: I got my money's worth. 7: You need to offer a sequel. Make this two weeks - one more elementary and add a more advanced section. 8: DS is an excellent instructor - I can hardly imagine the course being better taught. But it's also true that I learned a tremendous amount from my fellow students (besides having a lovely time with them). MORE than my money's worth. 9: I definitely got my money's worth. It's a luxury to study and learn and I feel the course was worth my time and my institution's money. There is a lot I am able to take back to the curator (who should also take this course). 10: This was a wonderful course and a terrific opportunity for me. 11: Yes, I got my money's worth. Number of respondents: 11 PERCENTAGES Leave Tuition Housing Travel Institution gave me leave 82% Institution paid tuition 55% Institution paid housing 36% Institution paid travel 36% I took vacation time 18% I paid tuition myself 36% I paid for my own housing 36% I paid for my own travel 36% N/A: Self-employed, retired, or had time off 0% N/A: Self-employed, retired, or exchange 9% N/A: Stayed with friends or lived at home 18% N/A: Lived nearby 18% There were eleven students; three (27%) archivist/manuscript librarians, three (27%) general librarians with no rare book duties, and one each (9% each) a conservator/bind-er/preservation librarian, a general librarian with some rare book duties, a manager of a digital history project, a teacher/professor, and Other (unspecified).

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