Battledecks - California Library Association 2011

BattleDecks!

Rules…
Each contestant will have a unique, unfamiliar and often humorous set of ten slides
Each Contestant has 5 minutes to complete their slide deck
Judges will score contestants based on 5 criteria
Scores will be judged during the George and Joan exhibition round
In the event of a tie, the official Battledecks applause-o-meter will be used

Scoring…
Content and Credibility
Poise flow and gestures
Audience responses
Getting through the whole deck as close to five minutes as possible
Overall level of AWESOME!!

Judges…
Rosario Garza
Sam McBane Mulford
Hildie Verlaine Kraus
Kirby McCurtis

Competitors…
Stacey Aldrich
Oleg Kagan
Derek Wolfgram
Lori Bowen Ayre
Glenn Warren
Jennifer Baker

Special Thanks… Timekeeper – Jill Sonnenberg Slidemakers – Ashley Kagan Stephanie Roach Halftime Show – George and Joan

Prizes… The #Calibconf Golden Microphone A t-shirt of the winners choice from the library advocacy store www.cafepress.com/libraryadvocacy

BattleDecks!

Stacy Aldrich

Seat belts: Another technology lost with the closing of libraries.

LIBRARIES Get HBO Programming , on demand, ten years before everyone else.

Don’t worry, Tom is your friend! .

Dedication….

But… will your Boopsie App work on this?

Coming soon to your library…

Early literacy classes

Relax… They were all about vampires

BattleDecks!

Oleg Kagan

Yo momma goes to the Library

Just Do It

In the not-to-distant future…

Don’t be afraid to fail… Sometimes

More than 3,000 new books are published everyday. Mostly by James Patterson

Find us on… Or… Just come in the freaking library!

Librarians Because some questions can’t be Googled.

BattleDecks!

Derek Wolfgram

Its storytime boys and girls!!

Maybe you should embrace your heresy.

Never Forget… … Our roots

#truth

When have we gone too far?

Clarity… Central could run out in less than 5

Predictions are that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capability of the brain.

That’s how you know we’re serious.

BattleDecks!

Lori Bowen Ayre

To whom were questions asked before Google?

Pick one. Technical Skills People Skills

Up next in mobile library services

Sometimes… Things just happen beyond our control

Commitment to your decisions

Learn to take risks

eBooks

Everything I needed to learn in SLIS about reference I learned from this sign.

Meanwhile…

BattleDecks!

Glen Warren

Get out the color fonts . This one is SERIOUS!

All the other kids with the pumped up ____

Future Libraries…

Mixed Messages

Library Signage 101 Use Clipart for clarity

Maintain your message

YO, Yo, Amazon… I’m real happy for you and I’mma let you finish, but libraries have the best loans of all time. OF ALL TIME!

BattleDecks!

Jennifer Baker

Not every decision is a good one.

#truth

Libraries and cats actually have a lot in common.

That patron who wears sunglasses inside

Seriously? ANOTHER Twilight movie?

Werewolves. Discuss.

What Would Harry Potter Do?

The librarian needs a rapper name .

BattleDecks!

George and Joan

Own it.

Pornography on a public computer

Talk about shameless self-promotion!

#truth

On the internet, you can be any age

HOW DO I PRINT??

Good thing Google checks for spelling

+ = Consulting

Those crazy teenagers

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… I believe in taking risks and biting off more than you can chew. And also, people were yelling, and I got confused about the rules. It all comes down to the wisdom of Kenneth Parcell. Why?

Then there’s this guy…

I’m looking for that book about that guy in that place…

The book is always better. movie Nevermind…

BattleDecks!

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