A total of 29 participants attended the second week of the summer school. At the end of the week, everyone received a questionnaire. 25 questionnaires were returned. Participants spent a considerable amount of time on the evaluation. A lot of suggestions and comments were given, which were all very valuable for Ticer. We would like to express our gratitude for that!
The second week of the fifth International Summer School on the Digital Library was a success. All participants (100%) indicated they would recommend the summer school to colleagues in the field. 84% said the summer school was worth its money.
- "I enjoyed the course enormously - I thought the content, organisation and atmosphere were all excellent."
- "Altogether an excellent, inspiring and practical programme. The international speakers were of a high reputation."
- "I very highly appreciate the variety and relevance of the subjects covered. I have a feeling that I waisted not a single minute of my time this week."
- "A very high quality course."
- "The course was extremely well organised and interesting. I learnt a lot. I would like all seminars and courses to be set up this way."
- "Organisation excellent, especially aftercare."
- "Excellent organisation and friendly staff - thanks!"
All participants could discover the structure in the programme and only 16% thought the programme was overfull and should give more opportunity for discussion. General suggestions on the programme were to pay more attention to practical and technical (servers, metadata, gateways, formats) aspects. Some participants thought we should focus less on the academic environment.
In the evaluation, participants could rate a programme item 'extremely good', 'good', 'neutral', 'bad' or 'extremely bad'. With their ratings, we calculated a score from 0 to 5, with 5 being the maximum score. The average score was 4.1.
The following lectures were rated as the best. For privacy reasons, the lecturers are indicated by numbers which correspond with the numbers in the syllabus given to all participants and lecturers.
| Syllabus number | Score | Comments |
| 8 | 4.9 | superbly good lecture, lecturer should be invited for the next summer school in any case! |
| 16 | 4.8 | very useful demos, the best session during this week, give this lecture more time and schedule it in the beginning of the week, extremely interesting |
| 12 | 4.7 | very useful for the new role that libraries can play, groupwork sessions were great |
The results of the evaluation are not a reason to change our promotion. All 'distribution channels' for information on the summer school worked satisfactory. 28% of the participants indicated that a colleague attended the summer school one of the previous years. 40% of the participants first learnt about the summer school on the Internet. Communication between Ticer and the participants was considered 'very good' to 'good' and the combination of e-mail and Ticer's web site to keep participants informed was considered 'very adequate' to 'adequate' by 90% of the participants.
60% of the participants read their mail daily. Most participants agreed that they had plenty of opportunity to read their mail in the library, 3 participants had no opinion and 4 wanted more time. 87% of the participants found the computer facilities at the university excellent, 1 had no opinion and 1 didn't think the facilities were excellent.
The quality of lunches and dinners was considered good. People also liked the duration of the coffee and lunch breaks.
Of the 25 people who filled out the questionnaire, 14 stayed in the hotel. After increasing complaints about the noise in a previously used hotel in the city centre, Ticer has been using a new hotel in the woods, very close to the university since 1999. Participants were very pleased with this hotel. The price quality ratio was considered perfect or good by all of them. Only one participant did not find the hotel quiet, and only one would rather stay in a hotel in the city centre next time.
Of the 25 people who filled out the questionnaire, 9 stayed in the student apartments.The price quality ratio of the student apartments was considered perfect or good by almost all participants. Only one person did not think the price quality ratio was perfect. 6 people indicated they would stay there again a next time, 1 person did not know, and 2 persons would rather stay in a hotel next time.
