Beware Ego Centric Conference Sessions

Excuse the following rant, but I have to get this off my chest.  I have been to too many conference sessions guilty of ego centricity and I'm losing my mind.

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The thing that annoys me the most at conferences is not PowerPoint slides, or people reading directly from their notes, or people's cell phones going off...it's presenters who stand up and talk to you for an hour about the minutiae of what happened at their library during a certain project, talking in great excruciating detail about how their library "did it" including each administrative step, what specific challenges they faced from their administrators/boards/patrons/staff, and really giving you nothing to take away that is useful. 

No practical tips, no how-to steps, no thought provoking ideas, just an hour-long verbalized quarterly report.  Because that's what it sounds like.  I don't care if your director was pregnant during your ILS conversion and how that impacted your workload.  I don't care if your library employs 37 librarians and 88 paraprofessionals, then broken out by staff classification.  I don't care if your building's toilet leaks.  I don't care to hear the minute details of your specific situation. 

I come to conferences to learn about what I can do for my own library...to get real "take aways."  I want practical handouts, not your PowerPoint slides.  I want you to spark some ideas in me.  I want you to make me think.  Design a presentation with the thought: what things would someone need to know if he or she was going to do something similar?  What are all the things to think about?  What are some of the places to find more information about this?  What are some of the resources I found most useful?  I don't come to learn about the ins and outs of your library: I come to learn how to help mine.
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