Dude, it's a presentation....

Back from Portland and my one-day NASIG crash visit. Pretty good stuff--a nice environment and I even learned things about serials operations. Mostly concerns about e-journals, tracking, licensing, etc. During one panel session, however, someone committed the fatal error of not tailoring the PowerPoint for an oral presentation. Dude, what's up with that? I must remember to never cram the slide full of text. The information was very good, but the technology in this case totally interfered with the reception of the message. I find that I'm also annoyed when folks read from the Power Point. If your speech duplicates some of the text on the slides, fine, but it shouldn't be a total overlap. Otherwise, why are you there? I reminded myself that I want to start a collection of funny library-related images to include in PP presentations as needed.

Another interesting bit: I took the hand breast-pump because I didn't want to lug around the breast-pump case. But, when I went into a bathroom stall in the ladies' restroom to pump during a lunch break, I discovered that the hand pump wasn't working out. So, I got to manually express into the toilet. I'm sure some of the women were saying "now that's a different tinkling sound--what's going on over there?" A little relief, but I was still very excited when David and Michael picked me up after the conference day was over. The moral? Test out your gear beforehand....

Oh yeah, it seems Holly is doing some technical jivey with her jive, so no linkage from spagblog. Whazzup?