 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host Krista Burns here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event. We are a webinar as we like to call ourselves. Some people you can call us an online show, a webcast, whatever you like. The terminology is up for debate to some people. Some people don't like the word webinar. I don't mind it. I'll own it, yes. But whatever you call us, we are here live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's okay. We do record our shows every week as we are this morning. So if you can't join us on Wednesdays, go to our website and all our recordings will be there on the show. And I'll show you that at the end of today's show. We'll have a recording. We post it to our YouTube channel. Any presentations as we have here will be posted to the Library Commission's slide share account. 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And that's what we have this morning to my left is Sabrina Riley, who's from our Union College here in Lincoln, Nebraska. She's the Library Director there. And then over next to her is Judy Cook, who is with our Lincoln Lancaster County Genealogical Society, also based here in Lincoln. So we are local Lincoln people today who came in through the rain. It's pouring rain here this morning, so we're all possibly a little damp and disheveled, but we made it here. And a few years ago, Judy, we had you on to talk about what we were doing and mention some of what we're going with Union College. But we knew it was time for an update. Things have changed, moved on, new things. And we just actually, if you want the most up to date version of this presentation, this is it. Because when they came in today, Sabrina did change a slide and change a picture on one of these. So can't get any more current than this. So I will just hand over to you guys to take it away and tell us about what you guys are doing together. Well, thank you very much for listening to us this morning. And this presentation started life as a joint presentation that we did at the Nebraska Library Association Conference. Right, that's where I first saw about it. Yeah, last time, last fall. So we're just going to dive right in. You should be able to use the keyboard now. Yeah, now it is responding. Okay, so just a little bit of background about each of our organizations. And to give you context, I'll just stay upfront that the Lincoln Lancaster County Genealogical Society Library is housed inside of the Union College Library, which is why this collaboration started and why we're here today. So just so you have that context. Union College is a private, largely undergraduate college founded and still affiliated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It was founded in 1891. So we're celebrating our 125th anniversary this year. We just had our kickoff with alumni homecoming here a couple weeks ago. And so that celebration will be ongoing until alumni homecoming next April. And people who are familiar with the city of Lincoln recognize that we have a number of small communities within the city now that started life as their own town. People from Nebraska may have heard the name of Hablock or University Place. College View is another one of those communities. So in 1890, when the site was selected for the college, it was just farmland. And the town of College View was built by the Adventist at the same time that the college was. And lived life that way for a couple of decades. But by 1929, the city of Lincoln had grown out to where College View was. It's been five miles from town in 1890. And today, College View is just a neighborhood in the city of Lincoln. Our heritage room is a special collections area within the entire academic library. And we're a small college. We have less than a thousand students. And so we just have a single library on campus. And our heritage room, it's kind of a combination. We're interested in the history of Union College and our local College View community. And also the history of the Seventh Adventist Church with an emphasis on what we call the Mid-American Union Territory, which comprises Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, and Minnesota, Colorado, and Wyoming. And so those are kind of the areas that we focus on collecting. Anything related to people, ministers, church leaders, just regular members of the church, history of the institutions, the churches, the schools, the sanitariums that were in that territory. And we get lots and lots of questions from genealogists who have discovered that they have ancestors who have a connection to the Adventist Church. I have something to interject here. I also found something in the Library Commission collection, a postcard that Sabrina had posted that shows the area where I live. I live not too far from there. And so the connection here was great for me as far as the community on the Nebraska Memories project. And that's true. On a regular basis, we get questions from home owners in the College View community who want a picture of what their house looks like way back when. We do have a pretty significant photograph collection, and we're getting, bit by bit, we're getting that online. And I'm not sure. I think of the the web addresses at the end. I do have, there were some, I do have the addresses there to see our online photo collections. Lincoln Lancaster County Genealogical Society is also celebrating an anniversary. We are 40 years old. The organization began when three ladies took a class related to genealogy at Southeast Community College and thought, well, you know, we ought to get an organization going. And the story is that they met with Coco and Donuts and, you know, people in Nebraska like to pick up on food things. So we often do things with Coco and Donuts. But this is a photo of our founders and their teacher. Five years ago, we were able to get together with two of the founders and the teacher who came. And that was a great celebration. One of the first things our group did was to collect resources. And one of the stories that's fun to tell is the acquisition of old newspapers at the Nebraska State Historical Society had stored in the bunkers at Mead, Nebraska. This was a munitions plant and so the bunkers are like an underground, wonderful place with little creatures and critters that were crawling around us. As you look carefully at the condition of the newspapers that they're carrying out, you need to have an admiration for the gentleman in the overalls, Mr. Sittler, who went through those newspapers, very carefully gleaned out names of people who were mentioned in the newspapers and wrote on little cards, what, and whose name was there, and then his wife also assisted in typing them up. So we have a huge collection of index cards that he had done. And the Society then published the Sittler Index. In the 70s, that was a very, very useful tool for anyone doing research in this area. Our first library, you'll notice it looks very homey, like somebody's tried in French, even a fireplace. Sabrina, there's no fireplace. It was in the home of one of our members. And people met there and people who had things to donate brought them over. As you can imagine, after a while, perhaps it was the spouse of the genealogist whose home they met in, but someone thought it might be good if we could find him. And about the same time changes were being made regarding the collection of the Nebraska State Historical Society. The decision was made that even though there were fabulous items that had been donated to the collection, those that did not deal directly or closely to Nebraska were not going to be housed there any longer, the age old problem that libraries face of space. And so here were these wonderful collections from other states, worldwide resources, very expensive items in many cases that we're not going to have a home. And so we were blessed with genealogist librarian at Union College, Chloe Fouts, who knew the librarians knew the people working at the Nebraska State Historical Society and came up with a suggestion that as a community service, Union College in their new building could house those materials from the State Historical Society, and we could combine it with the ones that were in Cynthia's basement. So why Union College? I think you can address that. Union College, a core value of our campus is community outreach and involvement in the community. And so I think this was seen and continues to be seen as a way to provide a service to the community. But there are benefits for the college as well. As all of you and I assume all of you are listening because you have an interest in genealogy, know that genealogists are willing to travel to get the information they need. And this brings a new audience to our campus that would probably never ever hear of Union College otherwise because we're so small. So it gives us the name recognition. It brings us a new clientele, especially during the summer months. But anymore, it seems like year round, we're getting visitors for the genealogy collection from all over the country. Not long ago, we had two sisters who flew in almost from opposite ends of the country to meet at Union College to do genealogy together on their Lancaster County ancestors. And I think they actually had, yes, their grandfather was a minister in the Adventist Church. They actually came from the heritage and how they figured out the connection. Yeah. And so that was kind of fun. And that's a perfect example of the collaboration that we have with the Genealogy Society. If people come for their resources and learn there's an Adventist connection and then use ours and vice versa. Right. And the delight that they experienced, they were so happy. Right. Good to be around when that happens. Right. And then it just enhances and increases our historical collections. The Genealogy Society collects material related to family history that we wouldn't necessarily collect for an academic college library. We have historical material that they wouldn't necessarily collect for a genealogy collection. And we end up sharing the collections with each other. So it has really broadened the range of resources available to both audiences. The cooperation commenced with a special event. They had a proclamation for Genealogy Week, May 1st through 7th in 1983. And I look at that and see some of the people who are still involved in our genealogy group. Cindy Drake, you're on there. This was something we haven't done for years. And we might consider doing again with all the anniversaries we're celebrating. That says Genealogy Week is the first week in May. Is it still then? Or is it something different? We often do family history month in October. But I'm going to do some research while I leave. We had some members in the society who were very supportive of genealogy and very generous. In those days, purchasing computers was an expensive thing to do. And Ruth and Dave Mosby contributed computers and funding. And Ruth is pictured here. She gave many hours as did members of the society. And you'll also see a staff member there from Union College. So there's three of them in that picture. That's true. Who worked with getting our materials into the library and accessible to people. This is an example of the computer we have since replaced with a more modern one. Now, marriage records on microfilm were reviewed and original ledgers were saved. First in someone's home and then at Union College. We were given a closet that we call our archives at the Ella Johnson Crandall Memorial Library. And you can see the ledgers are still there safely cared for. And people worked with indexing and created books that were useful to genealogists who were searching. I mentioned the Sibler Card Index. If you see that large card catalog, excuse me, that contains all those cards that he and his wife collected. We were recently able to scan those cards so that we now have them in a digital format. And on the cards, there was actually additional information that we didn't put in the original indexing. So this is where we got tuned into the idea that digital preservation is a very good idea because sometimes when you index, you choose only basic categories. On the left, you'll see an example of a probate record that we have from Lancaster County that we also have some of those stored. Now, 40 years later, we've changed, we, Clofouse is deceased. But we have on our library committee, Cindy Cochran, who some of you may recognize as someone who worked at Lincoln Public Libraries, is an avid genealogist. And if you can recognize this photo, travels around the world, the two different places doing your genealogy, observing how things are done and is very capable also as an archivist, which we needed that when papers are disintegrating. You know, what do we do? And so we turn to Cindy and to Sabrina, who is also, I knew her first as a librarian. Now, she's just an outstanding genealogist. And so I'm sorry, the slide was slow to change there. So okay. When the genealogy library moved into the Union College Library, an agreement was made at that time on who would do what task. And so the genealogy was society was responsible for their own collection and development, acquiring their own materials for the mechanical prep and processing for reshelving for reference. I train my staff to point visitors into the direction of the genealogy library, but we don't actually provide any reference service, except the very bare minimum. The genealogy volunteers are there on a regular basis. It used to be dependably one day a week, but I think you all are there almost every day of the week. And then and then there are people who are on call. We have email and phone. When people call ahead, we encourage them to contact the genealogy volunteers and to make appointments so that we can be sure someone is there. So this is not something that is a huge drain on Union College's library staff. But that agreement was very outdated when I looked at it. It didn't seem like it was that long ago, but the date on there is November 24, 2014. Time has gone really fast. Union College had a completely new administration. We had gone from a very early online catalog OPEC access to now we're fully in the web era and we're cataloging on OCLC connection and now our library has moved into WorldShare. Just the way we do things is completely different. When I looked at the old agreement, it was just completely outdated. So I went to Cindy and I said, we need to completely rewrite this. And it needs to go back to each of our, in this case of the Genealogy Society, their board, in my case to my administration. So all my new administrators know what this collaboration is about. And so we did that. So this is kind of the main points of how we work together and what's in that agreement. So Union College provides a shelf space rent free. A few years ago, I did go to the Genealogy Society and asked for a gift to help us with a signage project we had and ever since then they have graciously given us a gift each year monetary gift and we appreciate that very much. But we don't expect any rent. We manage their circulation for them. So patrons are issued our community borrowers cards, I should say members of Genealogy Society. They do have to live in Nebraska and generally in the Lincoln area to be eligible for the card. So we don't give cards to out of state visitors who come, they just need to use materials on site. And this is that slide that was updated. We had a picture of a really old homemade, ugly card we've been using and just yesterday our brand new community patron cards arrived. So I had to I can hear the trumpets right now. But she also tells me now I need to come in and renew my card. It's a new idea. So as part of that circulation function, we provide security for the genealogy collection. We've given them what we loosely call the office. It's really as an oversized closet, truth be told. And then there's actually a couple of other storage locations that we're giving them in the library right now. I have plans, probably long range plans for some renovations. And so some of the space usage will come under reconsideration in the future. But we will again, as we have all long work together on that. We also do the I say cataloging loosely, but the data entry, we do not give the Genealogy Society direct access to our World Share or OCLC connection accounts. We do the actual entry, but they will search WorldCat to identify records and they will print those out and they make notes for any changes they want on the records. And so they're doing a good share of the work for cataloging. But my staff does the actual logging into the database and the data entry. And then the genealogy volunteers take it from there. This is continuing that our society continues to acquire acquisitions and gifts from our members. Some of our members who started doing genealogy in the early days have fantastic things that they purchase from other states. And I guess this is something I have to keep stressing. We are the Lincoln Lancaster County Genealogical Society, but our collection is something that can be used for worldwide reference. We have many things, excellent things from Maine, from Massachusetts, from New York, from Virginia. We encourage people to check out the library catalog. And we've had people very surprised who find something that they really want, they check on WorldCat and eventually find out that it's located right here in here. And when they thought that they were anticipating traveling a long way, we managed the collection. I have an unfinished project I'm working on for many years now on identifying some of the periodicals that we have. We worked with using Percy to locate some of the things that we might have. We do not have complete collections of periodicals. But we've also gifted some of the ones that we've had, where we had only a partial set and helped to complete a set, for instance, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, or in Missouri. This is one of the great things about having someone people like Cindy and Sabrina working with us. We don't just think in a very narrow parameters, we think globally about the idea of other people want to have access to these materials. We prepare the things for cataloging primarily, I shouldn't say we, that's largely done by Cindy. We do have volunteers who do the processing after cataloging. And then we reimburse Union College for the processing supplies and a percentage of the cataloging subscription. And we just love that procedure. We don't have to buy as many things related to history than a genealogy library would, because of some of the excellent things already there. Collection continues to grow in quality and quantity with varied media representation. We actually have things from 50 states and from other countries. You'll notice some of the things on the view there that show you the variety. We're moving into more of the media things, which right now we're shelving in the area with the other resources for that. We recently acquired any genealogist, we'll know the name of John Coletta. John Coletta has done a series for beginning genealogists and for experienced genealogists with a DVD and an accompanying booklet. And we have two copies of that now. We're using one for teaching process, processes and one in the library to check out. This was just one of our most exciting things. And this is just this last summer. It was one of those where I was stopping in and talking to Cindy when she needed to be working on other things. Sabrina, you mean? Oh, I'm sorry. Sabrina, I'm looking at Sabrina. My age is showing. Okay. And saying, we just got to get this done. We're celebrating our 40th anniversary. We've had these books for so many years in the library and nobody knows that we have them because they're not listed in a way that people can find them. And so we came up with this process. We participated in Give to Lincoln Days and I have to do a plug for that. It's coming up in May. As a non-profit, we participated in this. And primarily our members are the ones who contributed. But when they saw how much benefit there would be in getting the getting something done before our 40th anniversary, they gave contributions very generously and we were able to get to equipment and do this project last summer. Tell more about it, Sabrina. Okay. Well, as I mentioned before, we want to have only our hired library staff doing actual data entry into our OCLC accounts. And so the idea that I came up with when Cindy and Judy were talking to me about how can we get the stuff cataloged because I have one full-time cataloger on staff. But we have students from time to time who we give additional training to and really trust to do more of that data entry. So I offered that option. I said if we selected the student and trained them to do copy cataloging, could you come up with the money to reimburse us for the wages? And they thought that would work. I worked with our human resources department and they were happy for that. And so the student he's pictured here is the one who was hired last summer to work on this project. And she did about 20 hours a week with our goal, I think. Right. We shared she worked 20 hours for you, 20 hours for us. Yeah. And then we then we invoice the genealogy society once a year for those OCLC expenses and processing expenses. And so we just added the student labor and employment taxes like FICA and stuff that they reimbursed us for all of those expenses for a block of time that the student contributed. They were so thrilled with the results and it worked really well for us that we're going to do it again this summer. Assuming that the Genealogy Board approves the funding. We recommended it at our meeting last night. We're taking it to our membership Thursday night. We're very excited about this time the possibility of working with two students because we want to preserve the work that our founders did. They went out to cemeteries and collected information they did. You saw carrying those old newspapers and bringing them and doing that. Well, those things are kept in books that are now updated and resolved. And so we are learning the value of putting things in digital format so that more people can find them. And we have used, again, give to Lincoln Day funds to buy a couple of large format scanners. We're really excited about it. I'm going to do my utmost to convince the society on Thursday to go ahead with this because we have tried as volunteers to do this at home. And it's the kind of thing where if a child cries or the phone rings or whatever, you stop your scanning. You forget where you are. We have learned the value of having a well-trained student. And there is a bigger blessing in this for us this year because during the summer we go down to between four and five students, usually what we hire in the summer. And this year I have six students who want to work, stay and work all summer. And I was like, I don't know how I'm going to actually six and a half. I don't know how I'm going to pay for the one and a half. And so I'm going to have two of these students who will each try to do about 20 hours a week for the genealogy society. So they're hoping to be able to reimburse us for 40 hours a week. And so that's going to enable us two students to have jobs this summer that we wouldn't be able to do otherwise. And going to push some people like me and do a little fundraising. But that's for a good cause. I really believe in it. Are these students library school students in library school programs? No, they're all undergraduate students at Union College. And they're in a wide range of majors. This particular student was a music major. Probably music education. She wanted to do cataloging? Well, she did. The students who will be working this summer, one of them is a history major. And the other one is a graphic design major who has done a lot of stuff for me and the hair teacher as well. Yeah, I have found a great value in having a graphic design major on my staff. Oh, yeah. So we make financial gifts to the library each year. And sometimes some of our members do some additional ones as thank yous to the staff. We do referrals between the Heritage Room and LLCGS. I've recommended to some people who want to learn more about it. And we try to tour the area. And then as Sabrina, I got your name right this time, said that she will sometimes find people doing research that we can help with some of the city directories and other things that we have collected. And then I think the next two slides are going to talk about that synergy and programming that we have found great benefit in working together on programs for both for campus and for the community. And then our newest thing is sharing equipment. We have an eight and a half by 14 flat bed scanner that we use in our Heritage Room because we really don't have a great many materials that are bigger than that. And when we have had materials bigger that we've done some outsourcing. But now the Juniology Society has bought a larger scanner that they needed for their materials and they're willing to share that with us with a small amount that we would need it. It's something that I think libraries might think about that genealogists have these baptismal records and other things that are odd sizes. And even some of the original records that were done were not on eight and a half by eleven that were on nine by twelve. So you either lose something from the top or the bottom of the site and the although it takes more space the large bed doesn't doesn't cost any more. This is one of our tours. We try to schedule one of these a year where we invite not only our membership but people from the community to come and visit the college and we always try to work it out with Sabrina Schedule so she can show things in the Heritage Room because genealogists love to see historical memorabilia. It's part of what we search for in our own lives. We had a regional genealogy workshop a college who had been a church which is right across the street. It has a wonderful facility for us to have a workshop and what we worked into it during that day was to walk across the street and go and see the library. The bottom photos shows us using the facilities of the church for displays where we invited anybody that we well Nebraska Library Commissions represented there and other organizations that would be helpful to us in doing genealogical research and then we got some people over. I see a librarian there from Omaha looking at our SIPLA cards and realizing what a treasure they are and then we have tours to come and visit the Union College Library as I said but this particular one we were showing them the things that we have collected in the archives rooms that Union College makes available for us. So you see people looking at ledgers and documents and we also use this as a time to get rid of our duplicate materials. When people very generously donate things as any librarian knows sometimes you get something that you don't want or do not need. Well when we have genealogy workshops selling duplicate materials is often another source of income for us because they may want that 1971 that you have because they still like the print copy they want to scan a particular portion of it something like that. Oh and this was a special treat. Oh well I think we're getting short on time so I won't talk about this too long but this is a Civil War era flag in our collection that I've been researching and sharing the story of and so this is a great conversation piece at times and I don't know what to say a short notice here but we shared the story with the Genealogy Society. You can share it we have plenty of time. She wants to save the story for more cover. We got to see it up close. This was one of the presentations I did for the Genealogy Society but two years ago now maybe even three and it was about an hour and a half program on this but basically there is no way to verify the authenticity of this flag in its role at Gettysburg and I used genealogy to find what we can find and it turned into a whole study on the field of memory studies and the role that plays on the accuracy of people's memories and had a lot of implications for genealogy as well. A lot of that you're trusting what people said happened and who did what and that was very true in 1986 when the college accepted this they just took the family's story that and the story was that this hung from the podium at Gettysburg when Abraham Lincoln spoke well turns out Abraham Lincoln didn't stand at a podium so it couldn't have hung from a podium and there's a whole lot more there's a whole lot more I should have added a link on this because I have the story published in our union college alumni magazine and that's online so people could find the detailed story there but what I did learn is that the family itself was very interesting and learning more about the experience of common citizen of Gettysburg during the battle and what they what they suffered and what they lost so there's there are some great stories there. Sabrina wrote in the human interest part of it with the genealogy not just the facts about the flag and that made it a wonderful story and every genealogist knows that you need to check your sources and document and document and that was part of it. I just did a search on union college magazine alumni magazine Civil War. Um actually no this is not that's union college in New York. Ah they copied our logo she said that online. All right I'll look more we'll get we'll get the right link to that article or we can add it we can add it to the powerpoint afterwards. Sure. But it's an amazing study. Yeah okay yes it um yes but since I made that slip up for the record union college in Lincoln, Nebraska had our logo before union college in Schenectady had theirs. Okay well and this was all happening during the Civil War anniversary when everyone was really keyed into it and so it was um it was one of those synergies in in more ways than one. Yeah yeah. Um we invite Sabrina to be a speaker frequently to our society uh sometimes we give her plenty of notice sometimes that's short notice. But she came and updated us on blogging. Um we have had presentations on blogging. Many of our members are um they're still so involved in the hunt that they haven't picked up the idea of blogging and she showed us what she had done and she can tell more about her blog. She also helped us know more about the library catalog interface. She told us something that we know so well about the value of oral interviews and because she is as up to date as she is she also talked about using DNA and this has been something that the two of us have just been excited about when we see each other about I like I end up being very jealous because she's making a lot more discoveries but in less time by the way but um this was a wonderful presentation for us and you need to tell about the picture of the charming person there. Oh well she pulled um the picture of me with my great aunt in from my blog post and I had that there that was actually uh New Year's Day a couple years ago and we were working on genealogy in that picture trying to collect one of her stories my great aunt can remember and uh she's a treasure um she will be a hundred on June 2. Wow. And she lives in Michigan and a few weeks ago when they had another blizzard in her home her son who cares for her um was teasing her about getting her shoes to go to the gym that day and he took she took him seriously and um they went to the gym in the blizzard. So that just underscores the kind of person she is she's an inspiration for me and um we love to talk about your DNA. We love to talk family memories every time we're together and some of those um just to say a little bit more about my blog my blog is um just kind of whatever inspires me at the moment um related to both family and local history um a lot of what I've shared on there right now is about my own family's genealogy and I use that as a tool to share what I'm discovering with my other family members who are interested. But as archivists for the college um I do a lot of historical research along biographical lines which means genealogy research um figures um an alumni related to the college and um those stories frequently end up on my blog as well. So there's a lot of college viewing and new college history um in there as well. One of the things that she brought out and helped us realize that um some of us as as genealogists find some oh usually in the middle of the night and it's like how do you know okay I'm squealing I'm excited I found this do I wake up family members who wish I didn't spend so much time on this or what do I do about it and she suggested if you put it on the blog you can share your excitement right then and there uh you don't have to wait till there's a genealogy meeting or you meet somebody else who likes the same hobby and yeah yeah so it was a a great presentation related to the value of blogging. We just love having access to the entire library for research um this this has to do not only with the many wonderful historical things but excuse me some of the things related to sociology or the maps that they have there um we can search for things that are in the collection and get our handy library card and check it out or if it's a reference material use it there some of our people love coming and reading the current newspapers genealogists do live a lot in the past but they they enjoy that and it's it is um it's a great setting it's it's just um a place that we enjoy going um well we'll go on and show some other ways we use it we uh the the war of the rebellion was the title used for the civil war 140 plus volumes of that and there are many who's who's books some of the people have found there's still something yes you found it online uh the documentation but if you find it printed in a book for some of us who are a little over 50 um it's there's something about finding your ancestors name in a book in the library about the civil war um that is is a gift that the college provides for us that we could never maintain we we wouldn't have the funds to get those volumes and then we have training sessions encouraging the use of the library i need to answer here we also have training sessions at lincoln city libraries uh we do them we have a weekly session at um on sundays at um walt library we've been doing sessions at at gear at thompson at isley uh we help people who want to do genealogy learn how to use library resources and we we do that in weekly sessions we do that uh one on one um we have llcgs members who lead classes at southeast community college encouraging people to use do genealogy and we have partnered with olly the osher lifelong learning institute at unl to do workshops some of them involving computer searches as you can see here and in this we are always saying begin at your library go to your library most libraries provide ancestry dot com so you can get started before you get the subscription learn how to navigate it use the things to search for census records um look at the city directories in your library so we are um we're great proponents of libraries and because they mean so much to genealogists so we're if anyone listening has another venue where we can do it we keep searching for that ways to help more people do their family history without thinking that it's going to work the way it does for instance on who do you think that you are where sometimes they find their solution in five minutes we do instill the tv show yeah right but they get excited which is wonderful i love those shows for that but the reality check is something we can help provide we steer visitors to union collection and here some of the people are enjoying the maps this is a mixed group it's our society but also other people from the community that we invited to come and i apologize for the quality of the picture but that's the best one we had and our volunteers really enjoy working in the library and being there you see gary and vira sam and they're in the center slide who have given countless hours and they're still coming in weekly to work they do this as a team volunteering to make the books ready to use their this picture of cindy working with a group telling someone and another one hopefully coming in our animation isn't working there we go this is a gentleman who's worked from the beginning of our organizational time and is one of those people i admire so much you made the transition from paper to computer and has helped maintain a database done a lot of work in the beginning and still continues to do so and we have people who continue to work at indexing preserving you see the the image here of two people who brought in their camera and tried to work out hours when they could come in and not be in anyone's way and take photos of over 8 000 naturalization records naturalization being a very important tool for genealogists it tells when our immigrant ancestors chose to become a citizen of the united states and we also work with microfilm we've we continue to work with it i want to mention our website at llcgs.info i'm going to stress .info if you go to .com you'll get something you don't want but it's our acronym llcgs.info this is this has been a really fun thing we started out with some people who wanted well partly after we heard about family stories who wanted to write their memoirs their family stories and they were overwhelmed they sort of had the idea of dear do we have to say i was born on and do a whole big book this wonderful teacher who just turned 90 uh who was a math teacher in her heritage and is an artist of wonderful personality and so she said well i'll teach a class but where can we meet and so i suggested union college and we started out in a small room with eight people well we have now 40 people on the list and we sabrina has graciously allowed us to use the room they love going into the room because it's called the writer's studio and it just sort of gives you an aura when you go in actually the the long name is the studio for writing and speaking but another campus this is it's what would be known as the writing center all right but it's got a special label and uh there have been tears and laughter and wonderful wonder they celebrated this existing for over a year people inspire others you hear a story that someone writes and thinks oh something like that happened to me go home and write it it's just been and if we did not have the place to do it it wouldn't happen and so libraries consider consider finding space for not only doing genealogy but coming and doing writing and sharing it doesn't have to be a class in grammar that's not what we emphasize it's those memories we use the heritage room yeah i'll talk about some of the resources here on the union college heritage collections oh that's supposed to be two bullet points i apologize another mistake we didn't catch we have photographs in two different instances of content dm one being union college heritage collections which uses um oclc's quick start program that we have through the nabrasco library commission and then the nabrasco memories is a nabrasco library commission project that also uses content dm and we have a selection of our photos in that instance as well so those are two different resources there the seventh the avanist obituary index is a free index available on the internet it's linked from our union college website and it indexes obituaries published in official um publications of the seventh the avanist church um the oldest one being what today is called avanist review um started it by 1851 with the name admin review in sabbeth herald and it um is the major news media of the avanist church and back in the day was the only publication and so it has wonderful obituaries in it um there's one from my family that's um my great great great grandfather's first wife um when she died and it had very little about her birth date or about her whole life but was a whole long description of her spiritual state at her death so they're just they're just fun to read because you never know what you're going to find some of them are long biographies some of them are just little snippets but they can be fun undefined um the general conference of seventh the avanist has an extensive archives online through their archives department they digitize many avanist periodicals and again there's a lot of biographical information to be mined from there um because of news announcements that will advertise that this person was going here and doing this work whether it was mission work evangelism teachers moving to a different school um sometimes i've when i'm researching former uni college staff members from the early 1900s i'll find little like press announcements about so what's going on vacation here or they went to this sanitarium for a break or you just never know what you're going to find um very very interesting and then our collection um itself includes a lot of local history artifacts um we have the college view newspapers on microfilm um we have the old gates from the original college view cemetery wow it's just a lot of actual you have to yeah a lot of physical stuff too that i didn't have room for it's like i want to keep it but where do i put it we really need a larger museum space than we have um but a lot of interesting things um again some personal paper collections as well um we have a set of diaries from um a woman who lived in college view for a long time and just interesting stuff so if you're looking for something visit our website to see what we have there talk to me because we have a lot more stuff that hasn't been organized yet that you won't see listed on our web page yeah we support each other's events when we were um focusing on a time period um i became a suffragette uh this was our world war one program um the the ladies picture there have a button collection and they also had a memorabilia from world war one they were delighted to display it at union college and so it was a good connection there's more this is more pictures from the same program um the idea was to introduce our students and our community at the beginning of the centennial for world war one um to what society and culture was doing then and so we looked at both the home front and the battlefront um what life was like women's right to vote um that they many of them don't realize wasn't always there and as part of that whole world war one series um with the humanities Nebraska we each sponsored a speaker um and so the genealogy society at susie mclean come in to talk about clothing from the world war one era and then we had david wells to come in and talk about popular music of the era and mike minard is one of our faculty members at union college who did a program on poetry and this is just a sampling we actually had a lot more programs throughout throughout the year and it was good to have it the site we were doing them at union college and then both the college and the genealogy society worked on publicity too sometimes it worked to bring in a much larger audience than we would have and some of the audiences were you never know this was a fun cooperative thing uh sabrina is responsible for how it happened okay you want me to tell that okay right um i had one of our history majors who worked for me in the heritage room for a couple of years and she's involved with the seventh day i've been a pathfinder club which is kind of similar to boy scouts or girl scouts um they work on on our badges and so my student after she graduated she was working with the local club and helping them with their genealogy on her badge and so she called me she's like can i bring them to the library for the genealogy collection and i'm like well probably but you need to talk to judy and cindy so i got them together at the time and the genealogy volunteers um took the event from there i think they were 12 of them who came that night i guess that was the only because they they i'm sorry they learned they learned a lot about it and we're excited and as were the the young people and their families that was that was a good outreach for us to reach young people what we're hoping to pursue now as another thing is and again uh other libraries may consider the because i know that home schoolers use libraries a great deal and that's a good place to because they focus on family and family stories it's a good place to introduce genealogy we can use union college library wi-fi to locate resources uh if you're at the library recent researching and you want to do a search for a map of the area you're looking at this is wonderful to be able to do that the wi-fi is wonderful for us because most people bring now um their tablet or something when they're doing research and they like to get onto wi-fi and then what we now realize and this is an outdated version of our map but in the lower right hand side you'll see uh as a you know at that date time period in 2015 people from all over the world um are checking resources it by using our website uh and this is our our logo once again there is our website address uh please do visit it and go to the park well look at all of it look at the part about library catalog because then you'll see what we've got there and i also look at it and so um you're mentioning you do things at union college and with looking to the libraries there's a calendar events on there so you can see what is coming up that the site is involved in and and where you can go to join in we're doing something at the Denton Cemetery this weekend so if we have anyone who enjoys cemetery research check our website recently another thing that we did was we had a conference where we invited Lisa Louise Cook who is one of the internationally acclaimed genealogists that um we have seen at national conferences she came to lincoln and uh we asked her to stay a little longer uh than just coming in and make it in presentation so she could see the resources here she was very impressed with uh the union college set up and asked if she could do a podcast where she interviewed Sabrina and Cindy i got both names right yeah and that has since aired it was on in february uh but you can search through her podcast and see uh that interview um but again it was helping a well-known genealogists know that people do do genealogy this side of the Mississippi uh there's kind of uh you know people genealogists think it's it's new england or it's salt lake city um we have a lot here in Nebraska and this is our list of promised uh URLs and christa has been looking up the article that i talked about earlier about the flag and and we can add that to the list as well that is the correct one i added Nebraska into my search i'm a librarian i know how to do these things yes anything i would have known that too being from new york i know about union college in new york yes yes didn't know about the uh um the local controversy but well we have the same thing with beating in lincoln some people see lincoln county uh that's not a thing that's not the right yeah that's not what we have to know but just to put out the disclaimer over and over we are not restricted to um in fact our best lincoln lancaster county materials are at the nabrasco state historical site because those things are already there but what we have um available we're so thankful people can find and i might just have to emphasize that blog um if you um if you need to cheer up on a rainy day go to sabrina's book like today here thank you i'm blushing duty but it has it has been a lot of fun to write that um we're a small library and i do have a staff but i work alone in the archives and so i do feel like a solo librarian at times and so that has been a great way when i've had a really exciting find in our collections to have that blog as an outlet to write about whatever's happening and have a way of sharing that all right that's our presentation thank you yeah questions if there is time yeah i'm absolutely yeah um it's a little after 11 but we did start a little late as well so that's fine um we and we'll go as long as necessary if people do have questions or anything to write that for our wrap up here um we don't get cut off obviously at 11 o'clock we'll go as long as is necessary so you do have any questions comments anything you want to say um type it into your go to webinar interface in the question section um nobody said anything during your presentation to um i think very listening very intently obviously um i could tell that from people's activity on their systems um so if you have any questions type min uh this is um oh just some thank yous coming in really good presentation good info yeah this is great um i like i said i'd seen me when you guys had done this at um conference before um last fall at our state library conference and thought it was very interesting um and this gene geological research is yeah people who are into it's just so even people who aren't really into it like actual researchers is always so interesting and fun to get into when you find like you said your family's name and something at my house that we do have um our family came to Ellis island um from Ireland and we do have the frame picture of the the ship they came in and this the pages of you know when they were um officially you know brought in all the ship followed through yep yeah very interesting yeah um oh we do have question do you have how much information do you potentially have on the checks of Nebraska that's i know that is a big population we do have oh i um we do have some excellent ones i saw one that uh Cindy just recently put in for cataloging um the check history of Nebraska here i am it's a red book but we we do have information on the checks great so go to the website and look up and see what and if it isn't on the website yet please send an email to um oh we um on our website we have an email that goes directly to the library llcgs library info and um that'll go to Cindy and that's how people do uh lookups too if they um if they're interested in something and they want us to do a lookup i forgot to mention that we do that by sending they they send an email through contact and we have a member who checks daily sometimes more than once a day any messages that come in and then they're forwarded to the board member or the librarian or whoever it is who can handle um that response and we do people who will excuse me we do have people who it will go um and look things up uh and um we um also sometimes have access to some materials that aren't yet up on the website that haven't been cataloged so it's always good to ask to check in yeah because it'd be things that are in the in the library but haven't been put on to them and i was just going to clarify on the llcgs info they have a database listing of resources they have and i think you get them in there right away you know when they haven't been cataloged yet and then the material that's cataloged is then listed in the new colleges right opac um with just the location shelving location of genealogy so there are two different ways to search the llcgs collection but check them both because you may find something that's an outstanding historical resource in that collection right that's why we we love that uh sharing i'm going to do a quick little promotion for um we have a program coming excuse me tomorrow night on evernote this is a software that we're finding a free software that has been very helpful for um genealogists and we're just learning how to use it it helps us with um keeping track of you know so that you don't run down that path you know more than once about checking something keeping track documenting where we've been um it's been an excellent one for bringing in images um and the ocr capability and so it it is something that libraries might consider having classes on using every node we find that if we do this kind of thing with our membership that they become more prepared than when they go to a library and um i know evernote some some academic libraries for students doing research they'll use that to track what and they're writing research paper or doing their um dissertations down to just freshman classes they'll teach that as a way to yeah track yeah what resources you already look at what have you found you know so you can just remember everything you did it's very useful to students anybody anybody doing any kind of research and that's what geological is yeah and then we have a state conference coming up in carney um april 29th and 30th uh where we have guest genealogists coming in that's it's pushing the limit on registration but it's still something to look up but just to let them know in 2017 um state genealogy conference will be held here in linkedin and they've invited um i think it's oh i always forget there's an initial in front of his name i think it's dd josh taylor who is involved a lot with ancestry rocho and it's probably the most prominent genealogist and he's coming to linkedin nebraska they'll come next year and the other thing is he has nebraska roots uh so um we'll be doing some things he's gotta be very excited about that himself that we'll want to get more and more librarians tuned into because um i love going to the small towns in nebraska that have genealogy rooms and in places set aside they they're so welcoming they're so well done i want to compliment you online for that i found some great things in north rand in david city and suerd again um let's see i've gone to rushville you know i've traveled the state and please keep it up uh keep genealogy materials available great all right um the person asked about checks and thank you very much that's good info they may be in contact with you guys yeah all right well i think we will wrap it up for today no other urgent questions seem to come in while you're chatting um and it is about 10 after 11 so um yeah i think we'll wrap it up thank you so much uh sabrina jr this is great um good research out there as i said we're recording this um i do have the slides so we'll have those posted as well if you want to go back and reference any of those or look at any of the photos that were in there and all the websites are mentioned here and other few things i've been collecting um as you mentioned the um the article that was in the nebraska union college alumni um um people are about the magazine about the flag i've got that um the podcast episode that you're on i've got that specific podcast episode cap i got that from that one so um all this will be included afterwards you go back and check up on everything good come let's get that done all right good all right so um this the recording everything should be available um by this afternoon as long as youtube and everything outside of here cooperates with me we understand how that goes so that we'll wrap it up for today's show i hope you join us next week um now if you are looking for our website and compass live you can just google and compass live just type it in anywhere whatever you use and luckily as you can see you're from search results nobody else is called anything that so you can't really right you can find us no matter anywhere very easily um uh our next week's topic is um techie lessons learned establishing a technology makerspace um this is actually another presentation just like yours that i saw at a conference last month i was at the library technology conference which is up in minneapolis st paul minnesota it is a techie conference um as i said library technology conference is what it's called so if you are in the midwest and into libraries and anything even vaguely i'm not a big tech person but um so we're not talking like you have to be like a computer expert or anything i'm just interested in that or do that kind of thing related at the library i definitely highly recommend this conference to go to every spring it's right up there at mcgallister college in um st paul um but this is a session done by jonathan smith who's actually out of california he's at sonoma state university but he set up a makerspace at the university there and he talked about there um but how they did it this is previously i said here at california state so he said else now but this is what they did there um it's very interesting presentation pros cons problems they had um really good about you know um seeing you know what how you can go through the process yourself at your own university so please do join us next week for that session jonathan will not be traveling here from california he'll be with us remotely i couldn't convince him to come across the state country for that but that's okay so you can sign up for that any of our other upcoming shows we have here you can see 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