As a speaker who will be giving a presentation at Kenyon, you may have specific needs regarding Kenyon's multimedia or computing equipment that may be used in your presentation. To help make your presentation run as smoothly as possible, please review this information sheet provided by Kenyon's Library & Information Services. Then be ready to give the following information to the contact person for your sponsoring Kenyon department:
- Your phone number and email address if an LBIS staff person needs to contact you.
- The multimedia or computing equipment needed for the presentation.
- Whether you want a student employee to assist at the presentation.
- The software being used in the presentation (examples: Windows PowerPoint, Mac PowerPoint).
- Whether a Kenyon network or internet connection is needed.
- If a laptop is used in the presentation, whether it requires audio capability.
- Whether you are planning to use a personally-owned laptop or a Kenyon computer in the presentation.
- If using your personal laptop, whether it's a Windows or Mac platform, and the brand and operating system (examples: Dell Latitude; Windows 10 or Apple MacBook Pro; macOS 10.15)
- If you require that certain software be installed on a Kenyon computer, your Kenyon contact person must receive a legally licensed version of the software at least one week in advance of the presentation to allow time for installation. Although we cannot guarantee that the software will install properly on our computers, we will do our best to accommodate you.
- If you will be using your personal laptop for the presentation, it may have to be configured or reset so that the image on the laptop screen will display on the projector screen. Each brand of computer has its own settings for accomplishing this. We have experience with HP Windows laptops and Mac OS X laptops but not other kinds, so we cannot guarantee that your laptop will work with Kenyon's projection system.
- However, we have a backup plan to suggest. We recommend that you bring along a backup copy of your presentation on a flash drive so that it can be used in a Kenyon-owned computer if necessary. Our computers have Office for Windows or Office for Mac.
- If you will be using a laptop, most presentation spaces on campus have an HDMI cable with adapters that will connect to your laptop. Some adapters are also available for checkout at the Chalmers Circulation desk.
- If you have further technical questions about the equipment you will be using at Kenyon, feel free to contact LBIS's Events and Classroom Technology Specialist, Tim Neviska, at 1-740-427-5953, or Helpline at 1-740-427-5700 or helpline@kenyon.edu.