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 SonnenbergSlidemakers – Ashley Kagan

Stephanie RoachHalftime 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.

LIBRARIESGet HBO Programming , on demand, ten years before everyone else.

Don’t worry, Tom is your friend!

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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

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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 thecolor 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 actual ly 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

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= 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!