 Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I'm your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. The show is broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show every week as we are this morning and is then posted to our website in the archive. So you can watch it at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access all of our archives. Both the live show and the recorded archives are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think may be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. The Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for all libraries in Nebraska. We provide training, consultation, grants to them, and we serve all the types of libraries. So you will find things on our show that are for publics, K-12, academic, museum, corrections. Really, our only criteria is that it's something to do with libraries, something a library is doing, something interesting we think they could be doing, services or products we'd like to share and out there. So we really run the grammar. You never know what you'll find in our archives or in our upcoming shows. We do have Nebraska Library Commission staff that sometimes come on the show to present about things we are doing here in Nebraska, specific services or things we're offering here through the Library Commission. But we also bring in guest speakers. And that's what we have this morning. On the line with us is Alan Bailey. Good morning, Alan. Good morning, Krista. How are you? I'm doing all right. You're having a nice day here today, actually. Still summer in Nebraska by degrees. Go figure. And he is from East Carolina University. He's a professor there in their teaching resources center. He's also, as you can see, involved in the Credit Scott King Book Awards, which those of us in libraries I'm sure are aware of them. They're celebrating a big anniversary this year. And he's going to tell us all about the awards history of it and everything that's been going on and how maybe you and your libraries could participate a little more with it, too. So Alan, just hand it over to you. Alan, to take it away. Thank you and thank all of you for participating this morning. I do welcome questions and I do hope that you will learn a lot from this webinar and you will start using Credit Scott King Books even more than you're using them now. So let's go ahead and get started. I always like to start with a little bit of history. The Credit Scott King Book Awards was actually founded in 1969 at ALA annual in New Jersey. Two librarians, Mrs. McKenziek and Mrs. Greer, had a conversation about how African-American authors and illustrators were not being recognized for their work. And they were overheard by a publisher, John Carroll, and when he heard them talk and he said, well, why don't we start a book awards ourselves? And from that one conversation, the ball did get rolling. So in 1979, the Credit Scott King actually was a task force and you can see the rest of that information. And in 1982, the award became officially recognized by ALA. And since 2003, our title has been the Credit Scott King Book Awards Committee. And we are actually a part of ALA's ethnic and multicultural information exchange roundtable. And you will hear me call that e-merf because that is a mouthful to say from time to time. We know our acronyms in libraries. Yeah, I'd like to at least introduce them at the very beginning. And you're hearing me call Credit Scott King CSK as well. Yeah, I know that's a hashtag for it too. I don't know if anybody saw me are posting about the CSK 50. Yes, yes. So please, please actually tweet about it. The awards are given annually and it's to outstanding African-American authors and illustrators. And these are for books for children and young adults. And I like to just stop here and just really just make you realize that these books must demonstrate an appreciation of African-American culture and universal human values. That's important to me because it has to be more than just a good book. It has to actually demonstrate that appreciation of an African-American culture and universal human value. So there has to be that cultural piece connected to the book for it to be a winning book. The book commemorates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and it actually encouraged honors his wife, Mrs. Credit Scott King, for all of the work that she did during the time her husband was alive and after his death. Mrs. King was just not the wife that was just there for photographs and things of that nature. She actually was very involved in the civil rights movement. A lot of the events that did happen were stemmed from some of her ideas and some of the work that she was doing. So she did continue her work for peace and world brotherhood after her husband was assassinated. The first book award was given to Miss Lily Patterson and this was in 1970 and fittingly it was a biography of Martin Luther King Jr. That was called Martin Luther King Jr. Man of Peace. So that was 1970 when the first award was actually given. It took a few more years before the first illustrator award was given and this was given in 1974 and the book was Ray Charles and the illustrator that won the first award was George Ford and it was written by Sharon Bell Mathis. Now with the Coretta Scott King there are several book awards that the committee gives out and then there's also a couple of other things that are involved with the committee. So I would like to tell you a little bit about these things. There is an author award. So one author award is actually given and honor books can be given. Honor books are not mandated but they can be given if the jury thinks there are books that are worthy of honor awards. There is the illustrator award and just like the honor award, the jury can give honors to some books but it's not mandatory that they do so. This is a wonderful award is the John Steptoe New Talent Award. This award can be given to an author or an illustrator or can be given to both who have published or illustrated three or less books. That's what makes them a new talent and I am talking about children's book. So this new author or illustrator can actually be awarded this award and once again the jury does not have to award any honor books. They don't have to award any new talent books but it's always an option for them to do so. And I would also like to say that we are celebrating the 15th anniversary of John Steptoe New Talent Award in 2020. We won't have a big celebration quite as big as the 50th committee but we will be recognizing this award. We also have the Virginia Hamilton Award for lifetime of treatment and most children's librarians will recognize the name of Virginia Hamilton for the great work that she did. With this award on even years it is given to an author or illustrator honoring a body of work that they have done in children's literature, especially for African-American children and on even years the award is given to a practitioner who has promoted African-American literature and the Coretta Scott King books throughout his or her career. And something else that the committee does that a lot of people don't realize but it's quite beneficial. There is a Coretta Scott King book donation grant. This grant is open to schools, agencies that work children and what this book grant does the winners of the grant receive copies of all of the award winning books and this include the honors as well as the ones that actually won the award. And they also receive a large selection of books that were submitted for the award but didn't win the award. So we're talking about a large collection. Applications usually open up around January or February so keep an eye out for that. But it's a great way to get books for your organization or your library and I will say there is a grant process of course but it's not as complicated as a lot of grant processes are so I like to call it an easy grant but it's a wonderful way to actually get a collection. Is there a question? Yeah, no, I was just actually looking at the page about the grants. That's something that I I've promote share by any grants that are available to libraries here to our in Nebraska and that's a new one. I'm going to add it to my list of things. I was looking at the website for it. Yeah, it doesn't. Yeah, you're right. It doesn't have any. It's not nothing is up yet about applications being open. Please check back in the fall for 2020 application instructions. Yes, right. So it should like to say it's usually January or February when the call for application actually comes out open. But it does have a list of the previous applicants as well. So if you're interested in possibly in talking to a previous winner a library about you know their experiences with a grant that's great that's out there for you and actually looking at that list. You can also see the large assortment of libraries and agencies that have received the award. And it's not that I should say to it's not just limited to the United States. I'm seeing here. The last 2018 one was given to place in South Africa. Yes. Art aides art. So it's one of those things that is based on these that and the criteria is actually up spelled out there about matrix. Yeah. We have a link to the website for the credit Scott King book Awards and it's right there on the left in the menu link. I'm like the second third to the top book donation grants. It's really easy to find the page. Yeah. Yes. And when you actually the links that I have in this presentation that those links will take you to the credit Scott King page and some of those specific pages that I will be talking about today. And I'll mention that while you mentioned that too that I didn't say at the beginning I did talk about the archives that we have we will have the slides as well slide presentation will be available afterwards along with the archive Alan will send me his presentation here and we'll upload it along with the recording too. So you'll have access to all this information yourself. Great. Here are covers of the 2019 award winning books. If you have not read these books this year go ahead and get your read in because in January 2020 we're going to award the new books for the new winners. So you might want to go ahead and read these before the new ones come out because I know you're going to want to read those as well and you could just see the variety of books that we have here a lot are historical you have fiction you have nonfiction you have some some that are stem related. So so many ways you can incorporate these books some of them are great for summer reading finding Langston you have something about a historical person but you also have something with poetry and literature. So there's a wide assortment every every year when it comes to the winners and the honor books something else that we do have we do have discussion guys. So this will help you if you're doing if you're in a school system where you're actually maybe doing something with your standards and you're actually doing lesson plans around the credit Scott King books as well as if you're in a public library or just any organization that might want to just have a book club it gives you some things to get started. The first discussion guy that we have on the web was in 2019 and we have it up to 2018 2019 discussion guy should be coming up soon and the discussion guys are just simply beautiful they it's just amazing what has been done with those guys and the information as well as the beauty of them. I think you could really enjoy them and children will enjoy them as well. Yeah those are very useful we hear do book club kits that we send out to libraries a collection you know eight copies of a book and along with discussion questions and lots of the book clubs at libraries or in communities really do benefit from those pre-written questions and discussion and they want to read a book but they don't know how to talk about it afterwards maybe you know who what should we talk about what should we ask each other about and those guides are so helpful to people reading and the credit Scott King book awards committee that's what we want to do. We want to put as much in your hands to get you going your librarians you know our job is to make people's lives easy we want to give people the information they need to be successful and that is what we do with the committee as well we want to give you these resources but we want to make it easy for you to use because we understand how busy you are and giving you as much as possible at the very beginning then all you have to do is put your creativity to it and put your own spin on it to make it a very successful program in your library whether it's school or public. We also have the CSK illustrations gallery. This is the this gallery actually has wonderful prints from our award winning books. There's a limited number of illustrations in the gallery now but you can expect to see the number of prints expand over the next few years. It's one of the goals that we are working on is to get this gallery up and running again. But art classes any sort of class things for backdrop or book discussions. These will be perfect in those to help assist. We do have two major CSK public publications and we do hope you will purchase these in your library because the first one is the credit Scott King Awards and this is our 50th anniversary volume. It looks at all of our award books from 1970 through 2019 and this book will give you history of the committee. You get excerpts and these could be excerpts from chapters picture books. It could be illustration it can be text all of that and there's a wonderful subject index at the back of this particular publication and that subject index will help you when you're doing your presentations. And another book that I think you should have as well is Pathways to Democracy. It talks about our award books and it is a discussion guide but it focuses on books that also discussions about what it means to be a citizen in a democratic society. So we've actually looked at books that would fit that criteria and they're here in Pathways to Democracy and once again it's a discussion guide that will give you questions to get started as well as things to help you with lesson plans. This is a resource that I am very happy to share with you. It's called Teaching Books and Teaching Books has resources for the titles that are recognized by the award since its conception in 1970. Now I will tell you Teaching Books is a large database and they do I can't even tell you how many books but it is a subscription based database but the owner of this company, Nick Glass, he is a firm supporter of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee. So this portal that I'm showing you today that deals with Coretta Scott King Award winning books is free and as a librarian I know I love that word and I know you love it too. So when you're using Coretta Scott King Books using a particular portal I'm going to show you today that is going to be absolutely free, no charge whatsoever. And these are just the statistics I saw from today because it's a very fluid database. Things are added daily, weekly, monthly. But this is as of today when it comes to the Coretta Scott King Book Awards there are 4,163 resources just on these award winning books. There's 3,476 videos, 377 book readings and 541 lesson plans. So you can see there's a wealth of information in this database and I'm actually going to take a moment to take us into teaching books and please bear with me. Krista has been helping me do this but we'll see how successful I am this time. Okay, it worked. It did work. When you go into teaching books this is going to be the opening page that you're going to see. I'm not going to go through everything with that because you're librarians. I know how capable you are. But the main thing I want to show you is the sidebar that's on the left. You can see how you can filter your results if you just want some subcategories which was the author, the illustrator's new talent. If you're doing grade level, your curricula areas. So if you wanted to do something with physical education, there's 17. Health, there's 16. You can tell that our award-winning books are very high with English language arts as well as social studies and art itself falls in there because of all these wonderful illustrations that are there. You can go by genre, you're a publicist so there's so much you can do. But even it goes a step further with this, if you just want some book lesson plans, you can click here and you'll see there are 174. I love doing Readers Theater. There are five scripts here. They're book trailers. And I know you probably have seen these but the book trailers are just like movie trailers and they can really get children geared up when it comes to reading. I know we're good at book talking but we can book talk a bit but then add in one of those trailers. I think that would really enhance introducing books to children. And then there's actually 257 book readings where you can hear most of these would be the author illustrating reading the books but you will have other librarians reading and just look at the author interviews as well. And so you have different types of ways that you can see the authors. One of the things I like about this database is it brings authors and illustrators to life for children because I think a lot of times children don't see authors and illustrators as real people because it's sort of obscure. They just read these wonderful books but they don't think about them as being people who go to the grocery store or have kids or things or any of those things. So I think it really brings them to life and one of the things I use a lot is the audio name pronunciation because it will have the author illustrator pronounce their names and many of them will tell you a little bit about themselves where they're from or where their name originated from and we as librarians and educators it helps as well if we're introducing something and we can't quite figure out how the author pronounces his or her name or illustrator. So with this resource it helps us as well. We do have a question. Someone isn't familiar with the Reader's Theater. Can you explain what that is and how that works? Yes and Reader's Theater is even quite easy for you to adapt as well because especially when you're doing something with children's books. Reader's Theater can be very simple because you have people who are usually you're sitting at a table or just in chairs out front. There are no costumes. Usually everyone just wears black. There are no scenery. It's usually a black setting but you may use a couple of props here and there to enhance it. The participants which mostly are the children they do not have to memorize anything with Reader's Theater. You can actually have the script in front of you and read. And so it's a matter of you presenting a work without actually doing all of the acting that comes along with it. But it does bring it to life because you do have the different voices. You can see people reading different voices and using a prop as a hat here and there or a book here and there or if it's something where a lamp is significant you may have a lamp there that you can turn on and turn off. But it is a great way of introducing literature to children and you think about it's enhancing their reading skills and their creativity skills and the list just goes on and on. It's kind of like a minimalist theater production but really focusing on the words because not all of the distraction of the like you said the set and everything and they can imagine themselves from the words which is what reading is all about what it would actually look like to them. Exactly. And you would really be amazed sometimes how the children that sometimes seem very shy different side of them when they are participating in readers theater it can bring them out of their shell because it gives them a chance to be very creative but they're doing it as someone else. So you see a side that they don't you don't use to see of them but the more they do that sometimes you can get them to be more extroverted or participate a lot more. Thank you so much for that question. Cool. And you back to your slides. Perfect. It worked. You can also get resources from publishers almost all publishers now if they actually have an award winning book if you go to their web page there will be a place that actually does resources once again Ray Charles is the is the first book to win the illustrator award and it was actually published by Lee and Low Book and now that I'm good at going back and forth I'll even take you to this because they have dedicated an entire page to the book Ray Charles. You have teachers guys you have interviews and it also gives you other ways to do some things reviews and comments about the book actually have lesson plans. So this is just an example of what so many publishers are doing now with this and it looks like they also have one on Paul Robeson that was done by Eleanor Greenfield and George Ford. So it looks like those are there as well. So never forget to go to these publishers websites when you're actually looking for activities or lesson plans for these award winning books. How can you use some of these books? Of course this is this list is very fluid. A lot of times people tell me different ways that they've used them and I add them to this list. So feel free to send me any ways that you actually use these books and I will definitely add it to my slides and on the very last slide you will have my email address. So feel free to send them to me. But when you're talking about Credit Scott King Award winning books if you're in a school system think about K-12 curriculum. You can use these books daily. Because remember African American history and African American books are not just for African Americans. It's for everyone. So in your regular K-12 curriculum and I'll show some examples of that if you're talking about science there are some books that you can actually use. Health, recreation, any of your topics there are Credit Scott King Award winning books that you can use in your curriculum. Of course it's great to have during Black History Month and also in February there's a National African American Read-In and that would be something great to sponsor in your school or your public library or your academic library any other kind of library. I do know a lot of communities do the one book one community. Sometimes even though that book is a book for adults or young adults many times people will also take a children's book that complements that particular book and do the one book one community with the children's book as well. And that is a great way to bring in parents and children to share a reading experience together because I think that is so important. We can always do book displays. Nice book displays will catch the eyes of people. We have four well actually we have five displays. We have a display case when you come into our department and then we have displays throughout the area. They catch people's eyes as soon as they come in and I will tell you we almost have to replenish those books from the book display almost daily and that's what it's all about. It's drawing people attention and you're actually checking out and using these materials. That's a good problem to have exactly and what we do make it simple when we put up a display we let's say the display will hold 15 books where we'll do a list of maybe about 2025 books that could go on the display and then our student employees if they see that their books missing they just go down the list and pull some more books to keep it refresh a lot of times before you run to the end of the books some of the books you had up there initially have returned. So we've never run out of books when it comes to this. Some other ideas of course you're doing book clubs we've talked about ideas for book clubs Martin Luther King Junior Holiday it's a good time to do it. A lot of the books are centered around art and music. So if you have an events in your school and your community it's a great time to use this one thing that I have seen done there's a local jazz festival in a town nearby even though it's for adults there are some books about jazz artists that they actually read to the children and then let them participate and the music and the dance your community readers day Oh and I was thinking with art think about all of our award-winning books with illustrations all the ones that have won illustrator awards they can be used so many times with any kind of art projects that go on community readers day I know that's something that a lot of places have and a lot of times they have one specifically for children so that's how it's a little different from that other program because your community readers day you can just do that for children and choose maybe a book for young children and then one for young adults and make it a community wide project a lot of schools like to do author study centers so you can choose an award-winning author and you can have books that they have written and some of them will be Coretta Scott King award-winning books some may not have won their books the award but many of the authors have won multiple awards and a lot of people do mock caldecott mock Newberry programs How about implementing a mock CSK program? It's another great way and like I say, there are many, many other ways that you can do you can use these materials these just a few that I wanted to highlight this morning if you're actually working in a K-12 school there's you know, we have our standards and there are so many of the award-winning books that actually align with your national and state standards. I just pulled out a few of the national and state ones that I have seen but almost any of the standards that you follow we will have CSK award-winning books that you can use for each standard and I'm just going to show you a few examples. I actually did a workshop on a line aligning these books to standards and I went through and looked at the with the standards and found some of these books. This one was for third-grade social studies and with the objective was to analyze the impact of contributions made by diverse historical figures in local communities and regions over time. If you've read the book Dave the Potter he was a former slave. It's just a beautiful book and it meets that objective perfectly. English language arts third grade when you describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events each kindness by Jacqueline Woodson is a perfect book for this one. Understand how the visual arts have affected and are reflected in the cultural traditions and history of the United States. This is a fifth grade visual arts radiant child. It's a perfect match. This is a science one grade grade three how environmental conditions determine how well plants survive and grow. That sees a change and great to dance use words or images to describe possible meanings observed in dance on firebird. It was actually written by Misty Copeland and she's a wonderful dancer. Oh yes. And Christopher Myers does a wonderful job with this book to just look at the movement and if you think about having a second grader to sit here and use words to describe the possible meaning she is so expressive and his artwork is so expressive. It will be even more of a joy for the teacher as it is for the actual children. And with this you will see that I did use a lot of elementary books and that was because this particular presentation was for K five but we do have books that will fit curriculum for middle school as well as high school. So we are celebrating 50 years of the credit Scott King Book Awards. It's been an exciting year for us and the committee has just come such a long way and look at the just the number of wonderful books that are out here to celebrate the Black experience for today's youth. And we are celebrating the whole year. So we didn't pick a particular day or month within the year 2019. We started at January 1st and we'll celebrate all the way until December 31st. We have something that we're calling the 50 50 initiative and this is why I love doing webinars because I get to reach so many people with so many states because since it was our 50th anniversary we wanted all 50 states to celebrate the 50th anniversary and that's why we call it 50 50 initiative and what we're doing we're challenging librarians, educators, lovers of children's literature across the nation to hold some programs and these can be classes, presentations, speeches as long as they highlight the committee, the award-winning books, authors of illustrators and we would love to have some we would love to have a presentation in all 50 states across the United States. So if you have to listen to that that you want to accept our challenge you can email the details of your program to Brenda Anasett. She's our chair-elect and she's chair of our program and committee and we also ask that you CC it to diversity at ala.org so that your estate will be recognized. There's actually an interactive map on our presentation website and once you send us the information about your program you will get your dot on the map and when you click on that dot it will tell us a little bit about your program. So you think about it. Think how well your principal or your director or your dean will be quite impressed if one of your programs were actually highlighted on a national website. And with that we give you the opportunity to submit photographs. So if you do have an author come in or there is a even a book display if you want to send us a picture of that or show us something from one of your programs or a book discussion group we will appreciate receiving that information. Yeah, I was just checking out the map myself here and for those of you in Nebraska because that's where I'm based there's nobody in Nebraska yet so you could be the first one. And we do have some people who are a little behind sending in their information. So we're going to start sending out reminders because we know so many people have done these programs because they told me they have at conferences I attend but I'm not seeing them on the map. So I start reaching out to some of these people but if you know people have done programs or you've done one please send us that information so you can be included in our 50 initiative and you will gain your right to spot on our map. Right, right. So this isn't just someone is actually asking about this. This isn't just for upcoming. This can be for things you've already done in the year already. Yes, anything from 2019 as a focus on CSK books, authors, illustrators, you can submit that. Yeah, awesome. And if you would like to do a program and sometimes you just don't know where to get started. I actually gave you some ideas earlier but if you want a little bit more simply contact Brenda or myself and she and the members of the program committee will help you create a program. That's one of the things we don't mind doing. I was a program chair of the program committee before I became chair of the committee and I can't tell you the number of programs I've helped people established or find ways to help them get in touch with some illustrators or authors or give them some good ideas or recommendation. But we are here to help you because if you're going to help promote the committee and these wonderful books we're behind you to help you do so. As I said, we're celebrating our 50th anniversary throughout the year and but we did have a wonderful time at ALA annual last January excuse me, last June in Washington, D.C. Some of the things that did happen. I hope some of you were there but if you were not there we did have the 50th anniversary Gala and it was actually held at the Library of Congress and Dr. Hayden actually hosted us. It was an unbelievable event. Even though I've been a librarian for close to 35 years I had never actually been in the Library of Congress. So it was a wonderful experience for me. And if I actually wrote a blog post about my experience at the Gala. So if you would like to read that just go to the CSK web page and you'll actually see a link for our blog and it is one of our blog posts. But it was a magical night. That's the only way I can explain that. We did have a celebration for Virginia Hamilton Award for lifetime achievement since it was an odd year. The award was given to a practitioner and so we did have an event for that and every year we have the Credit Scott King annual awards breakfast. That is held every Sunday morning during ALA annual and we had a record number of attendees this year. We had over 800 people attend breakfast in June and we would love to keep that momentum going. If you've never been to the breakfast if you're at ALA annual it is worth attending. I've heard people say there's nothing like it and I have attended lots of different award ceremonies but our breakfast is wonderful because every winter whether they're honor or the actual winner they do get to give a speech and speeches are always so touching, so touching. So I mean if you get a chance please, please attend. The Credit Scott King Book Awards committee is very different from most award committees because when you think of the Caldecott there's just the Caldecott Jewelry or the Newberry. There's just the Newberry Jewelry but with the Credit Scott King Book Awards committee we have approximately nine standing committees in addition to our two juries. So you can join one of our standing committees and to do so here are the things you have to do. You do have to be a member of ALA. You do have to be a member of EMERD and then you will have a CSK volunteer form you can complete and after you complete that form a chair will review the forms and appoint volunteers to committees as needed. Most of our committees are two year appointments but there are some that are one year and sometimes you might need to just fill out the term for someone who had to vacate the term for for any reason whatsoever. But it's easy to join our committees and we have just so many different committees. We can use your skills. I'm sure that there's one or more committee that your skills can be used from publication committee to marketing committee. There's the book donation grant committee and it goes on and on and on. There's a technology committee. So any of your skills we can use you and then if you want to join a CSK Jewelry as I said we have the Virginia Hamilton and the Book Awards Jewelry. You do have to complete and submit a detailed volunteer application and once again you do have to be a member of ALA and EMERD. The nominating committee reviews the applications and then the nominating committee will actually select the people that they will put on the jewelry ballot and once you're on the ballot all EMERD members will elect the jury through the general membership voting process. So if some of you if you're already a member of EMERD all you have to do is make sure that you get to be on the CSK list as well and you can email me with details about that or anyone associated with CSK. And we want you to get involved as well. I've given some links here because it'll tell you some ways of getting involved. There's some information about volunteering for a committee. This is the actual link that you can use to volunteer for committee and we do have a PDF of a membership brochure and that's something that you can use if you're doing programs or going places speaking on CSK. There's membership brochure and sometimes if you're doing a presentation and you may want some maybe goodies or a few freebies to go along with your presentation. Let me know. Sometimes we will have some things that we may be able to send you. We don't usually have things that if you have a group of 500 people or something. But if you're having 30 40 people or smart or less we can usually come up with something that we can give you to give away as door prizes or if nothing else we can give you some sort of bookmarks to go along with your program. I guess I'm out of slides. So I'm wondering if you have any questions for me. That's perfect. All right. Thank you very much. Allen. Anybody have any questions anything you want to ask about the CSK King Book Awards or the programs or anything that he's shared today. Any comments you have anything you've done at your library that you'd like to share about please do type into the question section. We did have a couple of comments during saying fantastic fantastic selection of books. Thank you. Someone did comment and thank you for the programming ideas. I think that is also very useful. There is just so much on the website of ways that you can do something with these books besides just you know you said you know display them and you mentioned that here's the ones that won the awards this year. This I think should be a thing that libraries do every year with them not just you know definitely push that's 50 years you've been doing this. But every year when they're announced in the summer that's when you can start working them into your programming figure out what you do something with them in you know the next six months at your library as they're announced every year at ALA. So that's they're actually announced in January at mid winter. Okay. It's some it's the regular annual right. We celebrate at annual. That gives all the winners a chance to come in and celebrate actually get their awards in the summer but they will be announced in January at the youth meeting your wars. Right. Okay. So look for that next January a couple months. Yeah. And I will actually um because I'll actually send you some information about the youth media award and give you the exact day and time that is going to be held because it is streamed live if people are not able to attend and it is fun to view live all of the winners so that would be great. I think here we here at the library commission we have a youth and children's services coordinator who help deals with anything you know obviously youth and in YA type books for a library Sally Snyder and I think that's something that she sits she watches every year. She you know gets on her computer and then checks in to see what's coming up for the next year of all the awards. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. I love being a part of it. That's really it. No it's no questions coming through but another comment very informative great presentation. That's a good information definitely. So it looks like nobody has any desperate urgent question questions they want to ask you right now but that's okay. There is Allen's information contact information there as of course you can reach out to him or to you know the other people you're talking about depending on how you might want to get involved with the award at later if you want to just wait and see if anybody has anything desperate you want to ask right now while we have him here. You have a lot of attention and that doesn't happen often. I know this was actually something that Sally that and that I mentioned her she was the one who recommended that I bring you on the show. She had seen a presentation you had done for her group. She's involved with obviously with Children's and Youth Services. So I'm going to see she's not here this week. She's actually out at this collaborative summer library program annual meeting. That's the group that does summer reading programs every year. So it doesn't look anybody has any questions right now but that's fine. You can ask him at any time. So thank you so much everyone. Thank you so much Allen for being with us here this morning. This is great. So much information. I've got myself to note the things that I want to you know make sure that I keep up on to make sure that we get the new book here at the library commission. We do have a collection of books here and I know as we have previous versions of it but not the 50th anniversary of the awards book and like I said also from any of the grants and the book club kits information everything so we have another comment from some of our staff do watch this in another meeting room here at the library commission and they said we enjoyed your presentation as well. Oh thank you. Lisa. Yeah. All right. So I think we will then wrap it up for today. As I said this show is being recorded and the recording will be posted on our website. The slides will be available as well. I think Alan you're going to send me a PDF version of those. I will. Sure. All right. Email them to me whenever you get a chance today. I'm going to pull back the presenter control the my screen so I can show you guys where all this is. That should be. There we go. Yeah. This is today's session but if we go back to our Encompass Live main page. The Encompass Live is so far if you go to library commission's website nlc.nebraska.gov you can search for Encompass Live. But if you use your search engine of choice Google whatever so far on the Internet we're the only thing called this so nobody else can go so if you do do your Googling and type in Encompass Live you'll come up with our page right off the bat. So these are upcoming shows we have coming up today shows here still but right beneath that is a link to our archive. So this is where the recording for today will be will be at the top of the page here. This is the last week show where we had we just recording last week have slides but for today's once once everything is done and processed uploaded to YouTube I have the slides and have those uploaded and everything on the two links here and this will be available. Everyone who attended today and everyone who registered for today's show get an email from me letting you know when it's ready and available here. We also push out that information on our Twitter Facebook and mailing list that we have here through the library commission so look for that as well and while I mentioned while I'm showing you the archives here we do have a search feature I did mention the beginning of the show we've got lots and lots of topics on here and Compass Live started in 2009. So we do have and we do have here on our page all of our archives going back to the very beginning. So if I scroll down here you'd have January 2009 so we do have a search feature here now or you can search everything if you want to or just most recent 12 months we just want really current information. So do be aware when you are searching in here and look at our archives just pay attention to the date of when a session was presented some things the service might have changed might be different links might not work anymore some things may not exist anymore in the past 10 years you know things do change. So just pay attention to the original date when you are watching something but we are you know librarians is that we do we gather and archive information and so we will always have the full record archive up on there even the ones that do become outdated just for historical purposes. We do also have a Facebook page you can see I've got links here to like the page I've got to open over here. So if you are a big Facebook user you like to get information there we do post reminders of shows here's a link showing people post to log in this morning to remind you like come in on the fly today's show when our recordings are ready we post on here. So if you do like to use Facebook give us like over there I post things there just maybe a couple of times a week. So you won't be inundated with things but it is a way that you can keep up on what we are doing here on until this live. So that is everything about today's show. I hope you join us next week when it is our pretty sweet tech. Can librarians teach robotics? Sure, why not? Amanda Sweet is the Technology Innovation Librarian here at the Nebraska Library Commission and a couple of months ago she started a monthly series called pretty sweet tech. Get it Amanda Sweet pretty sweet. She's got a logo there where every week every month the last Wednesday of the month will be her pretty sweet tech presentation. So if you're into technology for you that techy type person at your library hers is the show to always sign up for and next week she'll be talking about librarians teaching robotics. So if you are interested in that if you're wondering if you could do it how could you possibly pull it off. She will tell you all about that next week. So please do sign up for that and any of our other shows we have coming up make note that the one right after that it does say there is no encompass this week. This is the one week of the year. We are here every Wednesday except for the week of our state annual conference our state library Association's annual conference. That's a one week that I take off because my conference is dead. So there won't be a session after the pretty sweet tech one because we'll be at the Nebraska Library Association which are actually doing jointly with the Iowa Library Association this year. And this is our Nebraska School Librarians Association as well. So and any dates you see open here I've got things I'm working on negotiating with people and getting descriptions. So any open dates you see keep an eye on our page for what they the new topics might be. So thank you everybody for attending. Thank you so much. Alan this is great. I had a great time learning about everything and finding as usual more books that I need to read. I do read some you know why things myself just because you know it's a good story is a good story. So I agree. All right. So thank you everybody and I hope we'll see you another time on Encompass Live. Bye.