ANLTC - Academic and National Library Training Co-operative (Ireland): 2004 feedback forms

Academic and National Library Training Co-operative

ANLTC 100, Continuing Professional Development Colloquium

Course Title:	Continuing Professional Development Colloquium
Venue:	Castletroy Park Hotel, Limerick
Date:	3-4 November 2004
Institution/Organisation:	LIS University of Limerick

Compiled from 22 completed evaluation forms, out of 34 total attendance

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Agree			Strongly Agree
Content and Design
The objectives for the event were clearly identified			10	12
The event was relevant to my needs			13	9
The pace of the event was appropriate			9	13
Handouts/materials were appropriate and useful		2	14	6
Subject matter was covered to an appropriate level		1	10	11
The duration of the event was appropriate			9	12

Venue and Administration
Pre event administration was satisfactory			6		16
The training room was comfortable		2	10		10
Audio-visual aids were high quality and effective			8		14
Equipment for sessions was satisfactory		1	7		13
The catering was good			2		20

Overall Satisfaction
Overall the event met my objectives		1	9		11
Overall I was satisfied with this event		1	9		12

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Open Questions

1. Which part of the Colloquium did you find most relevant?

· Clifford Lynch (4),

· Judy Carmody (5), Elaine Bean (5),

· Pat Noon (1)

· Gobnait O Riordan (4) - Fyre leadership programme

· John O Donoghue (2), Eamonn Murphy (1)

· Jean McNiff (3), - Action Research

· Angela O’ Donovan (4), Performance Management -

· Mary Burke (4) - DepLis presentation

· Marie Reddan (5) Core Skills

· Pauline Corrigan’s (2) presentation

· Wed. afternoon session

· All very relevant (2)

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2. Which part of the Colloquium did you find least relevant?

· Jean McNiff, (4) Action research

· Prof. Murphy (4), John O Donoghue (3)

· Some parts not relevant to public libraries

· Mary Burke (2)

· Clifford Lynch (3)

· Jean McNiff interesting but belongs to a separate workshop.

· Frye Institute (1)

· None of it irrelevant (4)

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3. Have you any other suggestions for improvements?

· Training room militated against interaction

· Bias towards academic libraries, but still interesting

· Management of speakers was the best I’ve seen

· Air-conditioning made it hard to hear speakers

· More group work and discussion

· Get speakers to put their presentations on the Web faster

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4. What other activities would you like to ANLTC to offer?

· “Irish Academic libraries in the next 5 years” what senior managers, practitioners and academics think, future trends.

· Presentation skills

· Performance Management

· Action research full workshop be Jean McNiff

· Overview of structure of publishing industry

· Seminar on interface between library and academic departments, negotiation and power politics

· Study tours

· Web design

· Increased involvement of Special Libraries

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5. Any other comments or suggestions?

· Excellent, professional and friendly event. Content of high standard, venue and food excellent

· Training room cold on first day

· Excellent, well done

· Very impressed by the organisation

· Could IT libraries participate in ANLTC

· Public libraries could do with an efficient and effective ANLTC type organization`

· Pauline Corrigan’s talk was marvelous, would like handouts

· Conference dinner room lacking in atmosphere, table quiz great idea

· Very beneficial

· Good to have two days

· Superb course

· Great networking

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Updated: 10 May 2005