" To enhance undergraduate learning in the liberal arts by promoting use of library special collections"

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Events > Partnerships Workshop

PARTNERSHIPS WITH CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES

The Teagle Special Collections Project / Workshop Three

Peabody Museum, Yale University
June 16, 2006
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Workshop Evaluation

Your replies to this brief questionnaire will help us to assess the workshop's utility for you and to plan future events.

1. How did you hear about the workshop?

• Teagle network
• Steve Berizzi, NCC
• Member, Teagle Grant Advisory Committee
• E-mail from previous two workshops
• Invited by Linda Lerman

2. Please tell us what particular need you have that the workshop fulfills( for example, courses you are teaching or planning, projects you have):

• Information on range of online resources available; Possibilities to develop wider network for special collection resources .
• I need ideas for the courses I teach, most of which are taught to community college freshman.
• Use of the web to make my holdings available-and those of smaller or less well known facilities.
• General needs; teaching alternative to the standard classroom lectures; new ideas.
• Enhance my understanding of the opportunities and challenges inherent in museum archives collaboration; network with regional professionals.

3. What would you have liked to change about the workshop (for example, scheduling, speakers, subject matter, location, and anything else important to you)?

• The speakers often spoke as though the audience was made up only of librarians and archivists. In fact, a number of us are teachers. There might have been a bit more balance in approach.
• Very good on all of these aspects.
• Tought question—It went very well.
• Increase participation from the community such as CT Historical Society, Stat Historian Walt Woodword, CCSU Public Historian. The list is endless.

4. The Teagle Foundation seeks to enhance liberal arts education. This Teagle grant is specifically aimed at “Enhancing undergraduate liberal arts learning through the use of library special collections.” What other workshop topics would help you to accomplish this goal on your campus?

• The Workshops to date have been marvelous but in absolute candor the programs sometimes have been too passive to be named “Workshops”. Part of a day devoted solely to discussion and brainstorming by equal numbers of librarians/archivists and teachers might be useful.
• No ideas… last year’s presentations were excellent.
• Workshops similar to A. Walsh’s presentation-opportunities to hear step by step how projects(successful projection of project with growth potential) have been run; Experiment with the idea of an end ‘product’—pair organizations and archives with the goal of creating an action plan at the conclusion of the workshop; Workshop featuring a representative from both sides of a partnership—museum and archives.

Additional comments:

• Overall on informative and well organized workshop. Clear and concise communication of format of expectations.