2019 Institute

Feedback from participants

The 2019 Institute received many valuable comments:

I have a better understanding on library leadership as well as know more about my leadership color.

It is nice to spend time with other professionals and to reflect on the challenges and opportunities of leadership.

It was great to come to this event, lot of friends from the training.

To update and uplift my understanding and aspirations as librarian in public sector.

Self development and gaining network, updating new technologies and fellowship from one another.

I discover more about my leadership style and how can i make a difference to my library.

It builds my confidence as a leader and equips me with the framework and tools to start applying at work and in life.

Be able to connect with librarians in the region.

It has made me think how little I still know about leadership and the path I should cross to get where I want to be and think I can be in the future.

Before joining this institute I did not have much knowledge from the word leadership. After these 3 days they turned me into a more mature person and how to be more professional in leadership.

It's a great reflection for myself.

Great to meet different people from different institutions, we may learn from each other.

It's very helpful for me to think about the future of library, and gave opportunity to learn from other libraries.

Have learnt current information & new topic which I can apply in my work.

It is a chance for professional enhancement and get inspirations from speakers and other participants.

Enjoy and treasure this learning experience, that encourages me to understand the environment better and keep up with learning new skills, such as branding, marketing and fundraising.

I feel energised and inspired. Will be sharing some of the materials with my colleagues, especially the tests.

I have got many new ideas and learn more from the course by listening and communication, and I have known so many nice people, I learn more from them, and we become friends and will keep contact.

The important of leadership even just to manage yourself, and the importance of “selling” skills are very inspiring.

Attending this Institute helps me quite a lot, such as learning from the experts, knowing more about the future of library development, making friends with colleagues from different libraries and so on.

Good to be a student and study with peers; get more frontier information for my job, and build up network

The Institute gave me the time, space, and context to reflect upon key challenges for libraries, leadership practices, and my own practice as a library professional. It was also a great place to make friends, expand my network, and learn from so many different talented people.

Menti instant voting is fun.

Very impressed by Asian colleagues, have learnt a lot from them.

Very lovely experience. This is a very precious opportunity not only to learn but also network with colleagues I otherwise would not meet. I made many friends too! I also enjoyed Paul's sessions, very thought provoking and relevant to today's library environment. Thank you so much, Peter, Paul, Esther, Kitman and the rest of the team. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

2018 Institute

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The 2018 Institute received many valuable comments:

A very wonderful programme, thank you for all your efforts.

The facilitators are great, giving us inspirational and workable advice.

The best I’ve ever attended.

With concrete case studies sharing.

Love the presentations especially from Dianne Cmor. She gives a lot of insights/ideas on management, research support, OA etc.

Refresh knowledge and given great idea about library management and leadership.

Evaluating library effectiveness and impact is just what I want.

Making a note book workshop is interesting because it’s new to me.

Interesting and inspiring sessions and group work.

Think ahead the user need; go beyond the bubble to engage your users in using library services.

Very practical, applicable to my job duties, such as professional developments for library staff, altmetrics and makerspace for users.

Very inspiring, Jeff’s presentation in particular.

Learn how to think as a leader in library.

Most updated information with wonderful experience sharing, that open my eyes in future.

All topics benefit me for library knowledge.

It’s a good opportunity to learn/share experience with overseas professionals. It’s very valuable.

Expand my ideas and has updated my knowledge.

Useful for networking, good to learn from others.

Let me re-think the leadership for the library.

Learn new perspective on library leadership.

The experience from many institutions and new knowledge. Very useful to introduce/suggest for my professions.

(1) Think out of the box of the library services and friends; (2) Learn from members’ creative ideas.

Think from a higher level. And get known with different people.

Help me re-think what I have been doing and whether I can do it in a more effective way.

Many thing interesting and inspiring to learn, many good discussions and laughter, lot of good food, good friends, a very good learning experience – end up very tired.

The institute lets me learn new concepts and make friends in the industry.

Excellent arrangements and presentations.

Thank you for this wonderful learning experience.

This experience has enhances my optimism and enthusiasm for participating in librarian networks in Asia and across the globe.

I have not only learnt the new concepts, been updated with new trends in libraries but also learnt the way a conference was held.

Get known to many different library colleagues from other areas. Learn more about the new/innovative activities in the world.

Good speakers. Well work-related topics. Show us ways for further development.

A great learning course and opportunity.

2017 Institute

Feedback from participants

The 2017 Institute received many valuable comments:

Gain a lot and encourage my pursuits.

I have learned new ways to improve our library like reaching out to faculty researchers and be of great help to them.

Gaining experience from oversea library.

Good experience for library management.

I enjoyed the Institute very much. Thank you!

I was able to know more about marketing and branding from the presentations of facilitators. Also learn about other libraries’ experience through discussion and sharing sessions.

I will think strategically who I am and what I would do in terms of my institution in order to help our users being successful in their study and research.

Thank you very much for the organizers.

The public library perspective was insightful for thought provoking.

It made me realized a lot of activities, projects and challenges that I could do in future.

Made me realize what I still need to do to be a good leader. Learned a lot from the examples given. Inspired me to all the more love the profession.

I will now look at library issues and my day to day work through the view of leadership. This requires more big-picture thinking.

Great chance to get to know other professionals and learn about library challenges.

Opened my eyes to hoe the others from different countries approach and mange their work flow, their challenges, their positive pluses. New infused ideas shared by all.

I have learned a lot especially leadership and management. Thank you Leadership for the experience.

Please allow 2nd timer to attend. Thanks.

Thank you for the opportunity to be able to attend such a very useful training.

I came to learn how to rank projects, strategize and know that the library can embark on new projects to support student self-directed, lifelong learning.

Thank you for a well-organized, thoughtful, and interesting event!

Thank you so much for this once in a life time experience and opportunity. You (organizers, facilitators, speaker, Angela) are all great!

Learned a lot about librarianship and the latest information.

Thank you for the accommodation.

The experience helped me a lot in gaining friends, and has given me a lot of insights and realization especially on innovating our approach to our users.

Have more rest time and tea breaks. Too intensive.

Networking is important and this activity answer for the “Networking”.

Shocked for the innovation of idea.

It is a great opportunity to learn and see what other people in same field doing. I have been learn a lot from this meeting. I may take some ideas from here to practice in our library.

A good opportunity to connect and communicate.

Learn to be professional and improve in the practice.

The talk given by Paul and John really helped me think outside of the box of Academic Library, esp. LAPL’s MKY initiatives. Thanks!

Tables can be bigger to accommodate writing needs. Thanks to HKU staff for taking care of us throughout the workshop.

I especially like the project ranking activity.

2016 Institute

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The 2016 Institute received many valuable comments:

I find the speakers are well experienced, I can learn a lot from them and maybe apply some of their experience in my library context. The food is superb.

A good opportunity to exchange experience with other Academic University Libraries.

A lot of what was discussed is out of my job scope but, nevertheless, learning about new way of doing thing (outside my areas) and new technology has been insightful.

It’s the first time I attended this kind of workshop. All the activities have well worked for me and my expectation.

I really appreciate the experience and expertise of Jeffrey, Steve and Dianne. Dianne’s session on student learning and research support was especially memorable. Jeffrey’s sharing on the Ferguson project was also very impressive.

(1) 希望下次能夠繼續參加，這個培訓對我幫助和指導很大，是這麼多年我工作的標尺和目標 (2)聘請的老師很好，內容、教學都喜歡 (3) 非常感謝香港大學圖書館館長和同事，能組織這樣好的培訓，能聯合多個國家和地區共同學習、共同進步 (4) 安排的地點都有特色，學習了，也領略了異國風情。

(1) Target audiences need to be clearly defined. (2) Each time, similar level of participants (3) Able to speak/communicate to group members in English or make special arrangements for those with difficulties to talk, as to ensure full participation.

Add some fun activities, e.g. games, team-building exercise, more variety of exercises to make it more interesting and engaging.

It is a very good platform for librarians to know each other and discuss matters in library.

Please be hold only during weekdays (not including the weekend).

I am so glad to have had this opportunity to meet with so many others in the field – diverse and interesting, provoking ideas, thoughts. I am also happy to have been able to foster friendships and connect with fellow librarians.

Possible to use round table next time?

Excellent.

It’s been a great opportunity to learn about the trends and what is going on in other libraries and in other countries.

Challenges me to look beyond the traditional, accepted best practices to be open to changes, ideas and different ways to adopt in order to be relevant.

It is an eye-opener and exposure to me, especially impactful to me as I have been tasked to be a “change” leader, in an institutional library that has a long history and legacy of past practices and cumbersome systems and procedures…also proves that I am on the right track, to take up leadership, for the future.

I do appreciate for the chance that enabled me to see how others work, experience, think and advance.

I appreciate that the institute has offered a great opportunity for networking and professional development.

Widen my knowledge, keep me up to date and more confidence about my profession, and try to apply it in my professional/personal work.

Networking with librarians in the region is definitely a valuable component. I learn that we are very similar (i.e. library issues we face) and very different (i.e. the institutional context and work culture) at the same time.

It gave me a new knowledge of perspective on libraries, technologies and experiences shared by other academic libraries. It’s very interesting and informative.

Let me to see the trend of library from a new perspective.

I’ve learnt a lot of new things from the speakers and other international librarians. It’s been an exceptional experience mingling with fellow librarians all over Asia.

Motivating. Encouraging. Surprising. Relevant. Interesting.

Too many sessions, total 8, is too many.

This experience enriches and expands my vision of the international trend and idea of academic libraries.

Some PPT slides cannot be viewed clearly either from the back of room or from the booklet.

It was a very well organized, informative, enjoyable and welcoming event! I’m happy to know many librarians who have diverse background and experience, and learned a lot! I will highly recommend it to my co-workers and I hope I can see all again. This seminar was a great mixture of seriousness and fun

(1) Thank you for providing examples and models for each topic, so that we have a reference on how we create or develop our own, especially if we haven’t got any idea before. (2) Perhaps we can put library tour in the middle of the program? Just a thought.

Hopefully next time, we can pay the registration fee in USD because generally our institutions in the Philippines have USD account, we paid almost 400HKD in processing our payment thru bank transfer.

Thank you for meeting these days hard group, also thanks the University of Hong Kong Library for the learning opportunity. Thank you very much!

(1) I wish to attend the institute in the near future, please keep me informed. (2) Good and powerful speaker.

(1) I wish to have more opportunity to really mingle with people from other institutions, especially from other countries. It’s because we are only limited to my group. (2) Some of the group members can’t understand English, and I think this is a huge barrier for the discussions. In fact, I am quite positive that these group members could comprehend the presentations by the speakers.

The trainings given were clear and useful for me. I was inspired to gain a lot of knowledge and a few projects from it. The interactive exercises enable us to share with other librarians from other libraries. Well done! Keep up the good job! Interaction with librarian enlightened me a lot. During the engagements with librarians in the conversation, I definitely brought back a lot of “new” ideas.

Dianne and Jeffrey are good facilitators.

Thank you Organizing Committee! Appreciate everything you did!

Maybe we can have 1.5 hours break for lunch, as some participants are Muslims, they need to pray

Good work.

Kudos to the organizers! And speakers!

2015 Institute

Feedback from participants

The 2015 Institute received many valuable comments:

I learned a lot from the facilitators as well as fellow participants.

Very well planned and organized; details are attended; working team is very helpful.

Awesome arrangement. Friendly organizer & the event was very successful.

The Institute was conducted successfully.

A well organized training Institute for Asian librarians.

The facilitators’ background, knowledge and seniority combined with their ability to facilitate discussion, challenge assumptions, and help is reframe the various facets of leadership in our own context.

Timing very good, if more in-class exercise, not just speaking by facilitator more better.

I benefited from the entire programme and learned a lot about the way to think and to manage library in my position, and to understand it from the perspective of my supervisors.

The event is very useful in terms of networking among countries. Learning the culture and fundamental of leadership is fascinating, have open other eyes and mind more.

Leadership skills learned will be definitely helpful for me at work.

This Institute opened my eyes on the practical means on how to become an effective leader.

I feel this Institute not only taught me some deeper lessons about leadership but also created in me a desire to achieve more in work and in life.

A useful opportunity to interact with librarians who have to work in less favorable environments – their passion and insight remind one that complacency has no place in one’s library.

Let me know what a leader should be.

Impact on organizational culture and sharing of other countries point of view is very beneficial for my future endeavors in the librarian field. The leadership program could also benefit me as a professional to have direction and manage different people in a proper way.

It leads me to re-think the role as a leader/librarian. Besides, my teammates had also shared with me their experience and which is very useful to librarian.

It made me think different. Great! Thanks.

All of these studies, it is lifelong wealth to me.

The group project provide chance to work with participants from various countries/places.

The case study as a whole was good particularly part about marketing, which I dabble in my reference work.

Though there will be difficulties to apply theories in real world, the event is useful to me when opportunities come up as there will always be changes and improvements of library.

(1) Prefer a workshop with 5 days which has some time for self-reflection. (2) Prefer a workshop starting from Monday to Friday. (3) Want to know more about motivation – when some staff members are often having a negative view on various things but letting them go is not an option. Thank you very much for the excellent Institute.

For my English, I think if teachers can teach in simple words, I will appreciate it, thank you.

Thank you very much for organizer to conduct such a successful event which should be continued to benefit other fellow librarians.

Well organized event, facilitators are very knowledgeable and presentable.

Keep it up guys! You’ve been doing great in mentoring our professional growth for so many years. Thank you!

I hope the Institute is longer training, maybe a week or half a month.

The Institute would be better if you can leave a contact person’s cellphone on the website. So that we can get help on our arrival. Anyway, many thanks!

As a suggestion for future Institutes, and to ensure that all participants fully engage as leaders/future leaders in the program, introduce a slightly stronger selection process, e.g. for potential participants to contribute a personal statement on how they plan to make use of the Institute outcomes. While it did not bother me specifically, it seems to me that a few participants were not at all in a position to manage/lead…and were a bit in a “sit back” conference attitude rather than a leadership programme.

For my poor English, I think if I get the course materials before the Institute, I can prepare more.

The event overall is fun. I particularly like the opportunities of meeting librarians from other institutions and working with some of them to complete a project in a very short time throughout the event days. Also, thanks very much to Paul, Arnold, Peter, and all the HKU library staff for their time, effort, and sharing before and during the Institute.

A good opportunity for green and young professional librarians (with under 3 years of professional experiences) to exchange with other professional librarians outside Hong Kong.

Thank you Institute committee for this awesome experience. More power!

Thank you to organizer, speakers and all participants. I have a wonderful day here in Xiamen. Hope to see you all again.

Please keep up the great work!!

More prizes :)

The standard of English in terms of comprehension and communicating varies too much. Many could not understand what is taught and what is required from the participants. It hindered a lot the discussion and working together.

This Institute not only reminded me of the management concepts I learned before, but also stimulated me with thought-provoking ideas and discussions that expanded my horizon to be a library management.

2014 Institute

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The 2014 Institute received many valuable comments:

Very useful. A rare opportunity to meet with East, West and South.

Thank you for U of HK to give an opportunity participation.

Well conducted and on time.

It would be better if the hotel locates closer to the heart of the city.

Few lectures would have been more focused.

More visit will help to extend our satisfaction.

It is useful in implementing new services and planning of new services in libraries also in teaching.

Information is well-explained and current to the problems modern libraries are facing.

Because my English is not good, so I hope someone can translate some important presentation.

Many presentations are highly relevant for the arrangement and operations, such as the assessment techniques.

Broaden my horizon, learning from benchmark.

It is useful, we learnt from each other and share the knowledge as well as the experience we have in our own library.

Group discussion of different scenarios and we can exercise brainstorming for different situations.

Building campus partnership. It fits well with the future trend of the library.

Group work and discussion were very good. It helped in exchanging ideas.

Case study in group. I learned much from other participants.

Discussion and presentation are both helpful tool to realize the knowledge.

Discussion. It prompted the collaboration of all of the members.

It tells me how to reach out and collaborate with others.

Group discussion as we can get to know what goes on in the library systems around us.

Group activities. I learnt a lot from my group members and know more from other countries’ library.

Group discussions and experience sharing. Learning about practices in other libraries was very informative.

(i) Collection development – methods for e-collection; (ii) Literacy workshop – ideas of improvement; (iii) Space planning – good to know what other libraries has overcome.

I think the discussion of the Group is the specific activity work, because we are communicated further.

We did not get to lack of resources problem that I had addressed as challenges.

Communications are in English, and no explain. It may be work better if there’s some translation.

I can’t understand the English presentation well, because of my poor English. But I will try my best to improve it.

Sometimes, teachers speaks too fast. Maybe we can hold some meeting or parties at night to enhance the communication between teachers and students, between participants in difference area.

Nothing. All sessions are very useful to me.

My members in my group encouraged me to report our discussion.

The presentation of Shanghai Library is impressive and give me some insights on innovative space design.

What worked well for me are the Group Discussion and Case Study. Because they make me know more about collaboration with others. That’s very important.

Perhaps allow a participant to present in Chinese, and nominate another group member to be the translator.

Human resources management is still a problem to me. I wish I’ll get more information from the Institute.

Discussions as language seems to pose a huge challenge to some participants who are unwilling to participate even in the sharing/discussion, let alone presenting the group’s comments.

I hope the meeting will increase Chinese language in the next time because more and more people will come from China.

To know about the challenges of the library field and think about how to cope with them.

Our team work on collaboration proposal. I learned the advantages and disadvantages, as well as challenges when collaborating with new services. Also learned the experience from Washington University.

The workshop was highly useful personally for me in teaching.

I like this learning and training styles. This experience is very exciting, maybe we will hold seminar like this in our library.

Learn more through group discussion. It’s a good opportunity for me to meet so many librarian from different background. They have inspired me a lot in the field of librarianship.

The Leadership Institute is very useful to me, because in the Institute I try my best to think in English to finish the task.

Useful, benefit a lot for me, global view and ideas exchanges and sharing, interesting and good topics.

The Institute is very inspiring and I can bring home some meaningful ideas for sharing with my colleagues.

Through different activities, I learn that the importance of collaboration and skills of conducting a plan.

I would like to use this experience to run similar training workshops for colleagues locally.

I have been very inspired by the enthusiasm and professionalism of fellow librarians in the region. I am particularly impressed with the innovative services and close co-operation of the Shanghai University Libraries.

This conference is useful and I received good information for improve my work.

It is a very thought-provoking workshop where it makes you think up best methods to attain to current challenges. Also a way to benchmark with other universities.

To stay relevant, libraries need to focus on services and change the ways they do things. Re-purpose space to meet users’ needs and collaborate with partners.

I think that all activities were very useful to me, so I have a great challenges about English.

I got more experiences form different libraries of Asia.

It is very useful for me to progress my professional. It is very helpful for me to be familiar to the job of library.

We would make up proposals more scientifically. We’ll reform and improve our library rapidly.

It’s wonderful experience for me. It’s the most useful institute that I’ve ever been since I started my work as a librarian.

The presentations from all the facilitators including Fudan Director, were an open eyes to me. These were something encouraging for me to carry out new ideas in my institution.

As a professional, I would think the Institute provide a chance for me to learn about the culture as well as the working experience from other universities.

Improve the knowledge about libraries, obtain inspiration of managing various things in the library.

Group discussion is new learning style for me. I think this form is well, but I need adopt it more.

Lack of Q & A sessions after the theme presentation, which is important for direct communication between the audience and speakers.

Welcoming banquet did not work well. It is effective to be a site for making new friends, but it did not work well.

Learning Commons. It is a very common setup although space design is always a concern. May be it can be presented in another way.

Patron Driven Collection. We are currently having difficulty to involve lecturer in this activity. Lecturers still prefer print book rather than electronic book.

Event was informative and well-scheduled for all the talks.

Better than I had expected.

Maybe the reporter should be turned in every group every time. That would be best for Chinese librarian practicing English.

The event was excellent, we are all happy with the discussion, presentation and all the accommodation, thanks.

Now I have more clear ideas on how to do closer collaborations with different academic departments or units. Thank you for HKU’s arrangement.

We are interested to organize such workshops at two levels – Basic and Advanced. Advanced will be focus on Research in LIS and related areas. It will focus on selection of topics for record to write research report.

Thank you for your good works.

Nothing but thanks.

Thank you for the institute. Fudan and HKUL organized it very well. The facilitator did good jobs and gave me insights.

The staff is good and the conference is usefulness.

Arrangement of rooms in hotel is good as it foster better ties with our Asia Pacific neighbours. More current challenges like Budget Allocation could be discussed.

1. Library is changing as well as transforming rapiding. This is valuable chance of updating and sharing the new trends with people from all over China and neighboured countries. 2. Glad to meet more different people from different areas.

Another job well done!

May the facilitators can give more feedback on the group activities.

Precious chance. I wish I will have another chance to come again. May the Institute better in the future. Thank you very much.

No, everything was great and fantastic.

Thanks a lot for organizing the Institute.

2013 Institute

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The 2013 Institute received many valuable comments:

Maybe the institute have to do some selection from the application (apply form). Or can state out clearly the needed of working experience.

You are so great. Thanks a lot.

Thank you for providing this opportunity to the Asia Librarians.

More time to collaborate with other participants.

To have more time to work on the cases, because new ideas come out as we discuss things.

Person from the mainland of China should practice more not only in group discussion but also in case study presentation.

Love the opportunity of exchanging ideas on library management, hope to know more with innovation ideas.

Thank you for helping us realize our value as librarians.

No. Thank you very much!

Would like to thank you for all the hard work. One thing to suggest: have a formal session to share real life challenges and experiences of each participants.

Well done to organizer and participants. Nice venue, complete preparation, quality contents, knowledgeable speakers and facilitators and etc. Thank you very much!

Thanks for the great classes! I can bring some new knowledge and thoughts back.

Introduce some management analysis method or tools in the next Institute, so the group in the case study will not use SWOT.

Could be more technology advanced, e.g. make use of online learning platform like Moodle to facilitate the discussion in class.

More time for group discussions. Scenario planning may be new to a number of participants. It would have been better if we had a couple more activities to apply scenario planning so that we try and not stick to SWOT analysis.

The PPT marked by Chinese and English two language.

Will recommend to send participant for the next workshop. Thank you very much! Great job.

My sincere thanks, it is a very working enterprise to encourage professional development in East Asian Libraries.

Excellence!

Work book too heavy. Double sided printing next time. Separate folder. Facilitators can give more examples of case studies (real library case studies) before asking participants to discuss among themselves.

I hope it’s the training that covers many participants from many nations but there are only 4-5 nationality and most of them are Chinese. Is it possible to limit the language or confirm that every participant should talk English.

Group work, having discussion then we can realize the differentiate with each other and communication from that.

The case study gives us a chance to deal with a real situation. Teamwork – good experience working with people from different nations.

Group discussion. I have learnt a lot from the discussion as all of us are from different countries. This session enable us to know other libraries’ practice in Asia.

Trends presented; discussion inspiring.

The case preparation worked well. Working with different cultures and perspective really help stimulate deeper thinking/analysis.

Gave group talk (brainstorm) and presentation.

Speeches followed by discussions and idea sharing.

Well prepared, all aspects has been considered.

Everything was okay. However, food for muslims were not well managed.

Good speakers, good facilitators, organizers and secretariats.

It’s fun and informative.

Duration is a bit short as we don’t have enough time for the case study.

Always on time.

Quite confusing about the schedule, never state clearly where we have our meal that’s why I missed the welcome dinner.

Well organized and well balanced activities and presentations.

Time is rushed a little bit. However, every event and activity is wonderful.

Teaching, discussion, analysis, case study. All of the ways of study are interesting.

Most of the exercises are practical enough to apply in our current situation.

Need more data analyze.

New/cutting edge technologies and methodologies were shared among us.

Papers presented were good and a lot of new ideas for future library growth.

Very useful.

As a archivist, I learned a lot about new technology, new ideas etc.

Case study and scenario plan are useful for my future management.

Case study and other discussion give me a chance to learn from other library’s experience.

Group discuss and case study, it help me know what does other library do and give me a chance to learn.

Case study. Have lots of fun there, especially every group has different great ideas.

The presenters and presentations were excellent.

To know some friends and to learn them. To eat good food, to know Taiwan a lot.

Discussion in the group, I like brainstorm.

I pretty enjoy attending Marshall’s classes. He gave me a lot of new ideas and innovative knowledge.

Group discussion is the most successful respect for us because we can learn from each other, we can think lots of new topics.

The whole arrangement is very specific and overall the content of course is very plentiful especially the training exercise.

Case study. Each member contribute their ideas/experiences/efforts.

Case study: make me think about something I haven’t noticed. It didn’t occur to me that people from different places and cultures could become a team so quickly and work efficiently.

Marshall Breeding’s presentation, I could really relate well since we are in the process of selecting a Discovery Tool for our University; IR and ERM concepts.

Case study, included class contents and give the reports.

The experts, topics, location, mode is good.

No need to travel for classes.

Entertain for dinner. Hospitality, take care to the participants.

Theory class, and just simply “read” from the projector, very boring.

Speeches are delivered at high speed because of limited time.

The language barrier.

Some content. More about technology.

Group lunch and dinner. As Muslim, we need to consume halal foods that we get outside from the hotel/dinner venue.

No. Everything is useful.

The way that discussions are held. Often we don't have enough time in completing the tasks.

Need a bit more time for group case study, as with cultural/language difference slow things down a bit.

Because my English is poor, I only read something, so I feel difficult to listening and saying sometimes.

Presentation – my weakness on English speaking.

Session exercise. Limitation of time (why).

I think there should only be 1 presentation in the am and 1 in the afternoon to allow more time for discussion and group workshop. Focus on group dynamics.

Distance-training. I don’t like this way because the screen not clear.

Not enough time to go through all the slides.

My English is no good. So I don’t know all these learning.

Well, maybe because of the differentiate of working experience and education background, I found the big impact to me.

Marshall Breeding. Thanks for sharing.

This programme provide us a platform for information sharing, a great opportunities to learn what a manager should do and see the things from a high level.

Inspiring the librarian to adapt to new information environments and get better career!

It will be helpful in my work as a new supervisor, the technique I learned are applicable somehow to my job.

Very useful.

New discoveries from speeches and ideas shared from group members help a lot.

Learn something new about other libraries, specifically Asia’s libraries.

Because of its timeliness, gain knowledge and continued learning experience.

Receive one new-learning method, and get more concepts and ideas.

It change my thinking way to analysis a new issues. Open eyes, open mind.

Very well. I know a lot of things out of my work: technology, place, case study.

Gain a lot of valuable experiences across different culture and sectors.

We enjoyed the group collaboration so much. The team is so humble, able to deliver quality ideas and like o sharing it.

It is fun and good to learn from participants from diverse cultures.

I meet a lot of friends all over the world and we can share our work experience or even collaborate in the future.

Nice trip in Taipei. Enjoy the tour and food. Learn lots of professional trend about library.

How to provide knowledge services.

To broader my view on the library field and also build up my network with people of the Southeast Asia region.

I’ll be able to bring the experience back with me to share with staff to improve planning and execution.

To learn more English.

Gain valuable experience.

Gain more information for other countries library facilities specifically in Asia region.

This institute gave me an opportunity to review the challenges for the libraries.

A very good forum to introduce me to other professionals in other locals, who are engaging in similar projects and skills.

To learn a lot to do a good leader of library, such as, to develop a plan, budgets etc.

I met many professionals from different countries. I learned several strengths from them, and reflected from some of their weaknesses.

Discussion with other people widen my insight.

There are lessons on technology, service, resource, library development. All of them are very organized. It is very useful for my work in the future.

The technology changes our life and work and “no ability of planning, no success”, we should adapt the trend to future.

Willing to share. Cooperating with our group.

The last time I attend the Institute, I learned about The Learning Commons from Rick Luce. Immediately, I proposed to the Dean and approved 5 million to support the project. Now, it is considered the 1st library commons in the Philippines and thousands of libraries have visited the TLC and have inspired them to build or adapt a TLC in their library. The Institute was the prime mover of this project. Had I not attended, we wouldn’t have the Learning Commons now. Much appreciated. Now, and again, I leaned something now. I’ll make sure that this learning will translate to concrete innovations in my library.

There is some inspiration to my work, some ideas are the future direction of my work.

Enhance my knowledge and cooperation.

I think I will study English hard, this experience will be improve my ability to work.