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Children’s Book Festival, Day 1

Posted by: Eris Discordiain Book Signage, Children's Book Festival 2009, Life in Book Signage, Children's Book Festival 2009, Life

Apr

So I’m here in my official capacity as Lugger-Arounder and Makey-Worker of Laptops and Other Electronic Equipment at the Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival. I didn’t get to sit in on many of the sessions, but I did get to meet the presenters and authors. There was one very interesting session on “hush harbors,” places out in the woods where slaves would go worship in their own way, done by Freddi Evans. I did sit in on that one, largely because I needed to help with the technology.

SPEAKING OF WHICH. O my every god. The computers the USM tech people loaned out to us should not even exist. They didn’t bother to clean them, so they were dusty and smudgy; at least one is completely out of commission because it is acting very strangely; they don’t appear to have the capacity to play sound, although I know that they must. They are slooooooow and their touchpads are way too responsive, so you end up opening five or six windows trying to open just one, which slows them down even more. They are stocked with Office 2003, when most of the presenters are using 2007. It’s really frustrating for me, and even more so for the presenters. Poor Ms. Evans couldn’t get most of her material to work, and the lack of sound was really bad for her because her presentation mostly involved song and dance. The out-of-commission computer decided to completely lose its mind right in the middle of a big presentation later on, and we had to swap computers entirely.

BUT ANYWAY. I got some books signed, pictures of which I will post…now.

Here’s a book a former professor (and director of the Festival) wrote. She seemed surprised to find that she now has a fangirl. (Fractured faerietales are my FAVORITE THINGS.)
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