The instructor was enthusiastic, helpful, and very well qualified to teach us how to learn. My fellow students. The clarity of the explanations. Hands-on experience with the encoding of a manuscript and the creation of a home page. Good mix of theory and practical application.
Instructor is very knowledgeable and delightful.
The hands-on exercises were invaluable. I learned lots. I also wonder, as heretical as this might seem, if one of the speakers in the week of Introduction to Elec-tronic Texts could not be relevant to both the course and rare books. Perhaps next year, when the Berkeley Finding Aid project is more settled, more time could be spent discussing these issues. We didn't quite get to discussing etext impact on special collections, as was suggested in the course outline.