The Patras Spring Course on the Digital Library was a success! 29 out of 32 participants indicated they would recommend the course to colleagues in the field (90 %), the other 3 participants did not fill out this question. 27 people said the summer school was worth its money, 4 had no opinion on this.
- "All the speakers were very friendly and eager to discuss our problems. The seminar was stimulating and INSPIRING and hopefully of practical profit..."
- "I am satisfied with the whole course and with each one of you as a lecturer too. This is not necessarily just a 'compliment', but I really appreciate this course as an important experience for me as a person and as a librarian. I would hope, though, that this 'meeting' will not stop here; would like to consider it as a start for further future meetings/cooperation ..."
- "It was a very interesting and constructive course. I was impressed by the whole content & appearance."
- "All lectures were interesting"
People could discover the structure in the programme (28 participants agreed). When asked if the programme was overfull 20 people agreed, 5 disagreed and 6 had no opinion.
In the evaluation we stimulated participants to discern between the contents and the presentation of a lecture. Although some participants managed to treat contents and presentation as separate issues, the following listing shows that they sometimes are very hard to separate. For privacy reasons, we don't give the names of the lecturers, but the number of their lecture. The numbers correspond with the numbers in the course syllabus.
The contents of the following two lectures was rated as the most interesting:
| Lecture number | Comments |
| 3.1 | very important, crucial topic |
| 1.1 | comprehensive introduction |
Presentation 5.1 was rated as too commercial.
The presentation of the following lecturerers was rated as the best:
| Lecture number | Comments |
| 1.1, 4.1, and 6.1 | a real "lecturer", very gifted, his enthusiasm is transferred to us |
| 2.1, 3.1, 8.1, and 18.1 | analytical and well-structured |
Over 10 people indicated that none of the presentations were bad. The lecturer of presentation 5.1 was rated as too commercial and not objective.
The thing that we can learn from the ratings of all lectures is that
participants want practical lectures: more cases, more practical experience.
It is clear that people like these interactive sessions. It helps them to reflect on what they've learnt and to process the information. 16 participants thought we should have more opportunity for discussion. Overall, 84% to 97% of the participants rated worskhops as good or even extremely good. The last workshop (on Friday morning) was rated extermely good/good by only 65% of the participants, probably because by that time everyone was exhausted and thinking about going home again!
31% of the participants thought the lecture room was very good, 56% thought it was good. The rest was neutral.
84% of the participants indicated that the organiser's attitude was very good; 13% thought it was good.
78% of the participants evaluated the syllabus and other lecture material 'very good'; 22% rated is as 'good'.
