Below is a list of presentations I’ve given at various conferences with any handouts for each if available. If you have any questions about any of these topics, please feel free to contact me.
OhioNet MakerFest 2025
I was a panelist speaker for OhioNet’s first MakerFest event. This event was geared toward libraries with or looking into makerspaces and the makers that oversee them. Our panel covered how to set up a makerspace and the experience we had doing so. I took the talk from the perspective of someone doing this for 6 years while my copanelists covered it from 1 and 12 year perspectives.
The Benefits of Board Games
At the OLC Convention and Expo 2021 I returned with an updated version of my board game presentation. This discusses some recommended games. Admittedly the slides are not as helpful as they are intended mostly as a mental note for me.
So You've Spit in a Tube
This was an introductory presentation about genetic genealogy. I presented this at the 2018 Ohio Library Council Convention and Expo. I gave this talk a separate time at a public library the next spring.
Rolling With the Times
In the spring of 2017, I presented this version of my board games in libraries presentation at the Northeast, Southwest, and Northwest Chapter Conferences for the Ohio Library Council. It was a refinement of my earlier “But Won’t The Pieces Get Lost?” presentation with another year of perspective.
Handouts are the same as the “Benefits of Board Games” listed above.
Planning Your Career with OLC's Core Competencies
This presentation was given at the OLC Northeast Chapter Conference in 2017 on behalf of the Professional Development Committee. We had spent a notable amount of time building and refining a set of core competencies for library workers in Ohio, and this presentation was intended to discuss them and explain how they work and how you could better build your career path in accordance with them.
