 All right. Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. All right. Good morning, again. And welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is a commission's weekly online event. We're a webinar. Some people will call us a webcast, an online show. The terminology is up for debate and some people have strong feelings about it. I don't care what you want to call us. Whatever you call us, we're here live every Wednesday morning online at 10 a.m. Central Time. If you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. We do record the show and it is posted onto our website afterwards. And I will show you at the end of today's show where the recordings and everything will be. We post both according to the show, any presentations, documents, whatever materials anybody has that they've brought along, and links to any websites that might be mentioned throughout the show. So you'll have access to all of that afterwards. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with any of your colleagues, friends, neighbors, family, anybody who you think might be interested in any of the topics we have here. They're welcome to join us on Wednesday mornings or go back and look at our archives. I was just being asked actually this morning how far back our archives go back until the very beginning of the show. We started this in 2009. So we have everything on there going on our YouTube account. All of our recordings are there. So some of the archive shows may be outdated as far as the content or information of course. So just keep that in mind. Look at the dates. But we're librarians, so it's all out there for archival purposes of course, and it will remain out there. And we do a mixture of things here on the show. Book reviews, interviews, readings, many training sessions, demos of different services or products. Basically our only criteria is that it is library related, something libraries are doing, something that may, some new thing that may be of use to them, sometimes some out of the box thinking. So if you look at some of our topics and you're like, and I'll get it, stick with us. Everything will all have something to do with libraries. That's my goal. That's the only criteria that we have here on the show. We do have Nebraska Library Commission staff, since we are the ones hosting the show, that do some presentations here. So that will sometimes be more Nebraska-centric specifically. But we also bring in guest speakers, and that's what we have this morning to my left. From Lincoln City Libraries, I've got Jodyn Glaceman here from, and I didn't even put your titles on here. I'm sorry, I didn't, if you want, I just put your names on. I just realized I didn't look up and put any titles. So tell it to you, why don't you introduce yourself so I can get this right. I'm Jodyn Glaceman. I'm the branch manager at Walt Branch Library. Right, and Vicki Clark. I'm the librarian at Walt Branch Library. And there will be a third name you'll see on here too, Leigh Ann Harvey, who is unable to join us at this moment. She's ill today. But she's part of the team, so absolutely make sure that you know she's involved. And they've got a presentation here, which, as they were also mentioning earlier, you might not know what the heck it is based on this title. It's about the alphabet, no. But I actually attended this session of theirs at our state library conference, Nebraska Library Association and School Librarians Association joint conference last October. And it was a really cool program that they did, how it evolved and came what it is, was really what it is now. So I'm going to go ahead and cut a slide to share it with even more people. So I'm just going to hand it over to you guys to explain what that is. All right, great. Thank you, Pesta. Hi, I'm going to start here talking a little bit about this. And first of all, LMNOP's Library Moms Night Out program, and this was something that we started at Walt's. And it was branded specifically to Walt's. And so we're going to talk about that. We are going to talk about how we use community engagement to transfer that from being a mom's program to a maker's program. And how this was a low-tech program or no-tech program. And then how we wanted to inspire creativity among the people who were attending this program, how it transferred from moms to makers to makerspace. And I did some digging around this morning online. And I didn't realize that makerspaces are something that have been around in some format for decades. Oh, sure. Just to use the word. Yeah. And, you know, they've been real popular probably for about the last 10 years, but they have been around since the 60s as far as I could find. So that was really interesting for me, so something really to get into. So talking about LMNOP, Library Moms Night Out. There we are. Our original plan was that this was something that could happen as a downtime for moms in our library. It would be after hours on a Friday night. Moms would hang out, no kids. We would have a craft activity for them or a learning activity. Something where they could bond with each other. And they could browse the library without kids. They could go on the adult side of the library. Exactly. It would be a time for them to monitor anybody. And so as far as activities for them, this sort of grew out of a summer reading event that we had. And this was the very first program that we had. And this was actually pre-LMNOP. This was what inspired us. And we had a Do It Yourself Home and Beauty program. And this was presented by actually Vicki's sister. And she came in and talked to people about how to create cleaning products for your home. Different types of health products. I forget what all. Lots of hacks, basically. Life hacks. I heard a lot of people doing this trying to be healthier and make their own. Make your own laundry soap. Make your own. Or cheaper even. Yeah, than buying it. Exactly. And this, we had a really good turnout for this program. We were actually quite surprised at how many people came. Stuck around. Kept Mary, our presenter, in the room afterwards. Talking to her about different things. Asked for all the recipes. She had a handout of all the recipes. After the program, coming back and asking for more handouts. And asked when something like this would be offered again. And so this really was the impetus for our mom's night program. And so for our first library mom's night out program, we brought Mary back. And for our activity, she taught people how to do a shoe redo. And we did, it was like decoupage on the shoe. Take a shoe, redo it in whatever way you wanted to do. So now she has Star Wars shoes. Yes. Awesome. Another activity we did with the moms for the library mom's night out program was art journaling. Absolutely. Yeah. So Leanne, who could not be here today, is on the left in that picture there. And so we invited moms in for a Friday night evening. And staff taught them how to do art journaling. And this is different from the writing journaling. They were able to be creative. And the key with this was to be creative in any way. There was no wrong way to be creative. And this was a program that we offered a couple of different times. And what we learned here in doing this was that we were not getting just moms. Yeah. We were getting men. We were getting families. All ages. All ages were coming to these events. And that everybody was interested in these different types of creative programs. And wanted to see what was available at the library. And so this was something that we paid attention to as we offered these programs. And this gentleman here in the upper left, he was really cute. He was very interested in patterns, very into the program. And it was just, it was really fun to work with him because he was not our target audience. Yeah. But he was very much into the art journaling program. And just some more pictures of the art journaling. And just a wide variety of people who came. This is another program where they asked, when are you going to do this again? Yeah. You're going to do this regularly. You need this more. Yes. This is an example here of another program, Keep Your Car Running, AKA Friday Night Motor Moms, which I think is all right. This is a program that I especially really liked here. We had some people that we knew came in and taught us different things about what you need to know about keeping your car running, keeping it going. When should you get a tune up? When, how low can you get your tires tread before you need to replace them? Things like that that were asked in a non-competitive environment where anybody could ask a question and feel empowered knowing the things that they needed to know about cars. So we had about an hour-long class inside. You can see all the notes there in the back on the whiteboard. Then we went outside and actually looked at the car to see the different things that we needed to know about what we could do to keep our car running. They bring along a car to look at. We did. We had Leanne's car actually hold up in front of the library there. And what we didn't realize when we planned this particular one was that in September it got dark a lot earlier than we expected. So we had to put a floodlight on. So anybody who drove by kind of looked like a car shop parking lot or something like that. But it was fabulous. This was an excellent program. One time in particular, we did do this one twice, two different times once in the summer. And I had talked to a woman who had just stumbled in because we were open at the time. We weren't open to the public, but our program was going on. She came in just to get books for her grandchild. And I said, well, why don't you stay for this program? And she had the best reward from that. She's like, I needed to know this information. I needed to find out this. I didn't even know I needed this. But I'm so very, very thankful that I got this information. And we'll tell you a little bit more about the things we learned that people told us here in a few minutes there. Another program that we did was called Finger Knitting. So this is another low-tech program that we had where you really learned how to knit using your fingers. And you can see a lot of people there enjoying that program. And here's some more examples of finger knitting right there. Intergenerational. This is a grandma with her granddaughter here as well. They mean it. And there's my mom. She came and she was very excited because she doesn't wear a jeweler and she actually wore that. And she was very happy to. One of the great things about this particular program is it's a skill people learned and they came home with an actual product. Right, yes. So they felt really empowered by that. Another one that we have here, we did a yoga class in the evening. So this is in one of our meeting rooms. Beautiful serene example. So you didn't have to pay to go to a class. You could come to a free yoga class in the library. Is that a regular one too now? That particular one was a one off. In other branches of our library, they have had people who have had to, yoga instructors who have had to work on their training to become yoga instructors. So they will offer a short series like six or eight weeks like that. It's one that has been very well received. That's a nice connection to make. Absolutely. There's also been yoga classes for children that we've had. So we have not had it regularly, but boy we'd sure like to because people would come to that. Another one, this was a favorite too. We made a connection with the UNL extension office and Alice Henneman came and talked to us about make ahead freezer meals. So we're thinking about families, moms who are all busy, who need to make their meals ahead of time. And she gave us tips and pointers on how to do that. And of course, whenever we have these programs, not only do we have the program, but we go and collect a set of books that people can check out, have those available there. So of course there's tons of make ahead meal cookbooks there. There would have been yoga books and knitting books and everything out for all the other previous programs as well. And you can see on the bottom of that poster, our branding, the logo that we created for it. This L-M-N-O-P on a bookshelf there. I saw that one of the other previous ones, maybe the first one was also the original one, related to your some reading program, the adult summer reading program. Yes, that is correct. Yeah, it did. This one was a lot of fun too. Like yoga, we had Zumba class. This was the person that taught it that Jessica Dinger that Leanne knew. She was a Zumba fitness instructor. And what was fun about that is we cleared out the book displays in the center of the library and did Zumba in the middle of the library. Of course, these programs, in the beginning, L-M-N-O-P was after hours. We closed at six, and we started our program at 6.30 so people could have time to come in the evening. So you really weren't running into patrons while we were doing Zumba. Yes, you're not. So in this case, that was a little bit different, but that was a lot of fun. Another one that we had here was organic gardening. We collaborated with crops of Lincoln, community crops of Lincoln. They run community gardens in town and have a lot of resources. A lot of people showing up. And this, again, is another example that we had husbands showing up at our mom's night. So we were like, well, maybe this is library mom's night out or library moms and men night out. What's our M? That's our M here. And so then the next day, we had a continuation of the same theme where we had a seed swap day. We called this motivate to cultivate. And we had small workshops that we worked with crops to present in the library. There were activities for children. There were seed bombs. There were games. Plus then people could bring in their seeds and the crops, community people brought in their seeds on the table and you could just trade them seeds once. You could go home and then start your own seeds. And again, we had books to check out. So that was a really exciting program. We've done that a couple of times at the library also. Keep that going. And then next one of our most fun programs that we have had is called Frank and Toys. This did start out as a program that we did during a teen tech week a few years back. And Frank and Toys basically is a re-engineering of toys. So you bring in, we asked for donations of toys, small stuffed animals, small plastic toys. And we gave the participants the permission to destroy, to recreate. So people really had a hard time overcoming that obstacle of here's a very cute little stuffed animal. We want you to cut it apart because that's not something to cut its ears off, go to town, do what you want with it. But basically you find fun parts and you put them back together. You'll be thinking of Toy Story. That's kind of what they did in Toy Story. But it's a way to expand your creativity, expand your thinking. What can you do with this? How can you make it different? How can you still make it levelable? And actually we found that when people participated in this program, they created something and they developed an attachment to it. They really liked their little thing. And if you look at the beginning of, we had a beginning slide here with our names on it. We each identified with a Frank and Toy that we had created there as well. So this, we did start as a teen tech program, but we recreated it again in an Element OP program. We've done it a couple of times. And this we've actually also taken to a middle school and helped a middle school with this program and taken it on the road just up the street there. So we've done it several times in our library and we've really kind of gone all out with it. You can see we've got our mad scientist gear going on it. But this is definitely a program that we've had a great time with in our Element OP. And with taking it to the middle school, the thing we found that really helped with getting the kids to the point of being able to do the destruction before the recreation was taking a toy and asking them to look at how many parts could you make of this. What could you take apart and how many parts do you have to work with and when they could visualize taking that animal apart in their head, then they were okay getting to that deconstruction part and figuring out how to re-engineer it. And again, it was that it's okay to do this. I'm sure they've been told by their parents, don't destroy your toy. You're going to get scolded for that. Yeah, put it on the shelf, keep it nice. We're telling them to rip it apart. The library no less. Encouraging that creativity and that engineering. And the moms had a great time with it. We did it close to Halloween. So here, go have on it. That was great. Another one that we have done here too is a program that this was really exciting. This one is called Cook the Book. And we did this as an elemental people. We did it in conjunction with Hispanic Heritage Month, which is something that Walt celebrates every year. What we did is we selected two cookbooks of Mexican cookbooks. We put them out on display at the library close to the circulation desk and we asked people to look through the books and then select a recipe. And then we marked that with their name. This recipe is selected. And then we picked a date and we said, recreate this recipe, bring it to the library on this date. And it was basically a potluck of sharing this Hispanic food. And it was wonderful. Everybody loves a potluck. It's a great thing to do. You always come together over sharing. But what was really fabulous about this particular program is that there was a young mom. She had brought her young son. He was probably three or so. But she also brought her mother. Her mother was a non-English speaker. They were originally from Mexico. And so she was excited and she brought awesome food. And she then could talk to us about the differences in the regions in Mexico on how different food was prepared. So not only did we have great food, we used library resources to prepare the food because the recipes came from our books that people could check out. We photocopied them and let them take that. So we kept the books there. And then we sent them all the people needed to use this. So we sent them one with a copy of the recipe. Then we gave them a little cookbook of the recipes that were prepared in the library. But then they were able to talk to us about the different regional differences. This region uses corn tortillas, but this one uses flour tortillas, and this is the reason why. We were just thrilled. So she just came and you didn't know? Didn't know she was planned. So that's nice that serendipity of that. Serendipity of that. And they all said, when are we doing this again? I want to do it with Italian food and I want to do Indian food. So that is definitely another one that we will be doing at some point in time because it was awesome. With other cuisines. More things to try. Okay, so all of these things have been a lot of different examples of the programs that we have done in our Library Moms Night Out program, L-O-M-N-O-P. But what we want to talk to you about now here is the things that we observed in doing this programming. L-O-M-N-O-P started off with the programs that we thought people wanted to have. The things that we thought people wanted to do. And what we identified through talking with our patrons, conversing with the people who were there, we found out really what was important to them and how they would like to see our programming change and develop. We observed, obviously we've mentioned this before, but that Moms didn't really come to this programming in the evening after hours on a Friday to get downtime for themselves just to hang out in the library, which is one of the original concepts of the program. They wanted to come too. They would come if there was a program that enriched them, gave them something. Because, you know, if a mom's going to have downtime, she's probably not going to come to the library. Unless there's a reason for her to do nothing. We tried, we tried and not think for a while. She does that, she's probably going to go sit in her easy chair somewhere. So we gave that a whirl, we tested the waters, we wanted to see what was going on with that. But what was really important for us were program evaluations. And we want to talk to you a little bit about that right now. In the beginning, we always handed out an evaluation. You can see our logo right up there on the top, Elemental P. What did you think? And we asked several questions. How did you hear about this program? And instead of leaving blank space for them to fill it in, we gave them prompts to see all the places that we thought could have been options. So flyer in the library, Facebook, Storytime, library website, library staff or other. How would you like to see the library used on a mom's night out? Attend a learning program, participate in a craft program, quiet shelf browsing, free alone time, visiting with others, visiting with friends or others. By far it was, I would attend a program or participate in a craft program. Pretty much always. Nobody really wanted to come here for quiet, just tying in. We would never know that unless we passed out these evaluations. What topics for short programs or craft projects interest you? And we pretty much heard a lot of the same things over and over again. Would you prefer a short program with a craft? Or more free time in the library or a longer program? So short program and a long time to be by yourself or would you like a longer program? Pretty much for the most part we always heard longer program. And then in the beginning we wanted to know what time would be good for you to start and what time would be good for you to end. Because our original concept was Friday or after hours. We closed at six on a Friday. So would it be better if we started right at six? Would it be better if we started at seven? Does it affect people with their dinner schedule? What kind of issues do you have? How late is too late for you? How early is too early for you to go back home if the kids are still awake? We wanted to know those kind of things really. You just don't really know. So those are the kind of evaluations that we did in the beginning. We also continued on with evaluations later on that asked a little different questions. Tell us what you thought about this program. This one says I really appreciated this info. I learned a lot of important information. The leaders were great. Well, that's good information to know to see whether this was a valuable thing for people to come to or not. How did you hear about the program again? Same kind of questions. How would you like to use the library in a mom's night out? We're still asking the same question because we still want to know from a new group of people. What other topics for short programs or craft projects interest you? We really, really liked this one. This was an evaluation after the car care program. We got really good feedback from this. This particular one says other info sessions similar to this one that are related to stereotypical mail information. I just recently lost my dad who took care of everything like my car and now I find myself needing to make these important decisions. What we found from this, and this was not the only comment like this from this particular program, we found that we really were hitting a need for people. The library was a source of information and that information isn't always in books. Sometimes that information needs to be taught to people. This was a teaching element that really fit a need for this person. That is what inspired us right there. This program we also got a thank you note in the mail afterwards. Oh nice. So what we've been talking about is community engagement and how this program evolved and grew is based upon the engagement that we did and that is we were intentional about looking to our community and we tried to make our decisions based upon this quote here which is, we asked what mattered to our patrons rather than just assuming what we thought they needed for our programs and so the concept of community engagement traces its roots to community benefits and so we really tried to think about that as we grew this program and we basically turned outward and we were very intentional about basing these choices on creating change and changing our programs that would benefit our patrons and have a greater impact and make us more relevant to our community and so we did that by, we were very focused on talking to our patrons talking to the people who attended our programs we had those surveys we were very cognizant of making sure the staff in our building talked to our patrons sometimes that's a hard leap for some of them to really interact if they are used to just doing the checkout at the desk or answering questions we need to make sure they know about our programs and make those conversations we made small quarter sized announcements of every program and had those right at the checkout desk if you have people who are checking out books related to this material at all, hand them out and say this is for you and sometimes it's that personal invitation that a person needs it says here you might like this program that will cause they might see the poster but they might not have that personal invitation to come to the program and you build those relationships with people and as they are more comfortable talking to you you will have longer conversations and get to know them and then that's how you find out things that they can offer you and so that's how we have gotten some of our presenters and actually then when they present for you you learn more of what they can offer you and so that's really helped us which we'll talk about here exactly we've gotten free program presenters by doing that and developing those community relationships and so here this is basically what I was just saying here that we show interest in our patrons and they feel valued when we ask them to provide a service for us or present a program they know they are important to us and that they are important to our community and so some of the programs that we've had by doing this is we've had sewing programs which we'll talk about and we actually are going to have a couple coming up here we have a woman who is offered to do a knitting program for us and then a paper piecing program and so those are coming up and we would not have that any of those without engaging our patrons in the building and finding out what they have available to offer to us so moms to makers and how this transition occurred is we knew just by interacting with our patrons and I'm observing them and talking to the people who are at our moms program we really needed to become flexible with days and times we needed to be more than just a Friday night program after hours that was limited just to moms so our program happened during the week during the day could be at any point in time moms night out, anybody was showing up they didn't care and so that was a big because it became program driven if you wanted to go to the program that's what the topic was and really if somebody shows up and says I'm not a mom can I come so our M changed yes and along with that we expanded the type of program into the collaboration and like Vicki said people weren't here to browse the library they were here for the activity for the program and we started talking about life hacks or skill building the tricks, the shortcuts that people wanted to improve efficiencies in their lives people will talk about I can use this post-it note to get crumbs out of the keyboard what are some other things that we can teach people to make their lives easier the SHU program we might offer something along those lines of how do you waterproof your shoes with these wax people are interested in those types of things and we can be the place to provide that programming one thing that we did is look to see where our resources could come from we have a group of genealogists that meet every Sunday in our library and really they have their guest speakers and programmers coming in and at one time they had a program on calligraphy and she came in and talked and discussed about calligraphy but then also did a hands-on calligraphy class and what that evolved into is a regular 8 week class in our library which was awesome and she came she was over 90 years old and she would come in the winter and come every once on Monday mornings and she would set up and she had her handouts and there was a regular group of people who were so very excited about that and they started in the fall I think it was close to Christmas just before Christmas I think it was and they were working on Christmas cards learning how to do hand lettering to do your Christmas cards but what was also really neat about this particular program is that there was a homeschool family and it was a Monday morning so it worked in their schedule and so you had a lot of retired citizens who had learned the Palmer method of handwriting which was similar to this calligraphy and so they were very excited to participate and then the homeschool family so it was a really neat mix that you could see and that developed from talking to the genealogy people this is one of my favorite programs one day I was in the deep desk and I saw a person that looked familiar to me and I said I think I'm pretty sure I know that she's the person that works in the sewing department at the county fair when my kids take their 4-H items into the county fair and I said I wonder what she's doing here she would come regularly and bring her grandchildren to the library and I said I know she knows a lot about sewing so I'm going to go over and ask her about these classes I said would you come in and talk to a sewing machine that's sitting in your closet that you've never used that you might be quite afraid of I just want people to get to know their sewing machine she goes oh yeah I love that I teach classes like that all the time and it just kind of got exciting and then she says and you know I make cards too which was the best because that is another example of how once you start engaging people you're going to find out more about their talents well this has really turned into something great this particular program we had 17 people who hauled in their machines we said of their own they brought their own machine in because we wanted them to become familiar with what they had and so she first gave about an hour long discussion of the basics this is the basics of a machine and this is what you've gotten these are the different kinds of threads and this is when you would use it for this and that and then she would go around and she had different weights of fabric that she had brought along with her so that people could sew on different kinds of fabric and feel what that felt like differently with their machines and she had so much knowledge with this that she could say well you need to do this with your machine and you need to do that with your machine it was going to be different models everything's different some loaded the bobbins loaded differently in different machines and she could show you how to do that and we had people leaving who actually used the word life changing in their response so they were very excited about this it brought people's it brought usefulness to something that they had at their home that was just dead and so the other thing that people were asking for then is like okay great I know how to use my machine now when are you having classes at the library when are we going to be doing projects at the library and so we were very excited about this the one thing that is great about this particular program and several of the ones that we've done before is that there is a zero cost in this this is a program that you can do that doesn't cost you anything and sometimes those life empowering things are just like that alright so what is a maker space to do it yourself space where people can learn to gather create invent and learn and so for our purposes we have sewing machines, knitting needles, we've got card games we have crafts we have little robots we have all kinds of things but for us it's more than just the hard technology and we say that because if you we want our maker space to be inclusive so many times it's so people think it's all about tech and it's not my thing so I'm not even going to attention to it and making is for more than just geeks and so that's why we want it to be inclusive we want it to have anything where people can be creative it's for all ages it needs to be fun anything where people can learn and create something and the other important thing that should be remembered and we really do encourage this is there is no wrong way to make it's it's not something where we want somebody there hovering and saying no you should do this no why don't you do this however somebody is making it's correct for them and that's how we get the self empowerment with maker spaces people gain confidence when they're in a maker space and that just needs to people feeling a sense of individuality and really being able to do things on their own and one thing we see is when people are taking things apart and putting them back together they gain knowledge of how things work and how the world works they are able to be producers rather than just sitting back and being consumers they're an active part of the world something that Vicki and I talk about is honing the hack and so what we mean by that is instead of just being a consumer and taking what you get you are able to tweak it and make it work for you adapt it to what you need personally and make it more efficient in your daily activities so like instead of just taking something out of the box and using it you're thinking outside of the box what else can I do with it and that's what it's really made for you make the tool work better for you and this is something that we're hearing a lot these days is that creativity is just as important as literacy really it's problem solving it's how are you going to succeed? you need to be creative so what we began our presentation talking to you about was at Walt Library in particular what our LMNOP program was how that has changed from just being a mom's night out to a maker's night out or a maker's day out really and so then there's this trend in the library world going towards maker spaces but you don't have to have a dedicated space you don't have to have a dedicated room for a maker space you don't have to have high technology for a maker space even though those things are wonderful you don't have to have them and we came to learn part of that and we along the way found other things that encourage creativity in the same manner and we kind of think of these things as pseudo maker space type items we had a little tell you here about a book art display chocolate box and a dome program that we did so the first one we have a high school right next door to us, Southwest High School and the art teacher approached us and she had been buying books from our book nook which is a little book sales shelf that we have she had been buying some really nice hard back books and then took them back to her art students and they did this fabulous book art some of them you can see up in the top right there's a tree a 3D tree that's cut into the book with a painted tip some are folded there's a ship in the back it's actually made from the book pages and folded and then glued in so there's a couple different processes done here and she brought the students art work and we displayed it in the library and oh you would not believe the buzz about that I mean you can see them in the picture like this but when you see them in real life and you know the high school kids made it it's very very exciting so then people were like wow can I do that or wow I can't believe you even did that that somebody actually created that and can I do that patrons loved it and they wanted to do more it was also just very inspirational to see art being produced another thing that we did this was a a program that we did during summer reading we had a structural engineer come in Jason Solter you can see him down there in the bottom picture and first of all he started the day teaching kids about the strength of a triangle and they up at the the left hand picture up there you can see they made many geodesic domes and he taught them how to put them together and the engineering principles behind that and then he brought in a kit with these actual rods plastic rods that the kids put together then and you can see the same structure and you can see all the kids under the dome right there this was a fabulous program we left that dome up all summer long that people could look at it have the paper dome in there as well so this was a making program that the kids got a lot of hands on work with everybody could see it, everybody could enjoy it that was another example of a maker space type program that we did that didn't take up a lot of space you didn't have to have anything dedicated and it took no machinery for that this is another one of my favorites this is called Chalk the Walks and it is sponsored by somebody from a group called the Joy Team I just found them once when I was on Facebook posting that somebody else had that had posted and I thought well that is really interesting it's only been around for a few years it's the third Tuesday in August and all you really need to do is have a bucket of chalk and a sidewalk that's it their tagline is that it spreads joy and optimism and inspiration through the magical power of sidewalk chalk we've done this a couple times the first time I think we were the only ones that did it and then maybe one other group joined us I can't remember and last year I think we had four branch libraries and Lincoln do it and put out a big sign just explaining what it is and let people go to town and it was just wonderful you know every hour you go out and see another beautiful drawing or some positive message that's the only requirement is just make it positive and that's really a beautiful way to make something on your sidewalk and then it washes away cleans up itself you know you have to just make sure it's not actually the first day first time we ever tried it it was rainy in the morning and so because we decided we were going to do this we laid black paper down in the aisles of the youth section in the upper left so it was raining in the morning so we made fake sidewalks in the library and had people do sidewalk chalk in the library and then when it dried up in the afternoon we took it back outside so that was a lot of fun but that's another example of being very low tech and the cheapest maker space items that you could do so if anybody wants to join it it's the third Tuesday in August so maker spaces in a library really? Yes and we still get asked about this in fact the question just came up again yesterday about were maker spaces really appropriate to have in a library and yes they are because libraries have always been about learning, information libraries already have the resource materials such as the books and the internet for patrons to reference so having those resources in the library it's a perfect fit to just add the tools that go along with them and because libraries are the place for equitable free access this is just a great fit for people who don't have access or the resources to purchase those tools to be able to come use the at the library so this perfect fit yes yes libraries have always done programs of any sort bringing in authors or anything like that and it's just another program. Exactly to share information. Yes just a little more interactive. Exactly it's a different way to learn. Yes. Okay so here with the LMNOP that is a very specific thing for us and then we started with some creativity and some making at our branch and then Lincoln City Libraries got a grant and we added makerspace items to our entire system and through that we branded that whole concept at our system as linkin at LCL and link stands for learn, innovate, engineer and so this here happens to be a poster for a pop-up makerspace that was held at our gear branch and this is just showing you what that branding is that we've done for our whole makerspace concept and so the makerspaces at Lincoln City Libraries through that grant we have a big 3D printer at our central library we have two smaller 3D printers at our quadrant branches and then various tech and non-tech items that can be checked out by our branches for programming or taken to outreach events and it's nice that a lot of that is portable but it's not that you're saying you don't have to have this room that everything is just stationary stuck in and everyone has to go there for it but you can go with it anywhere a couple of the items that we have we saw such a great response from our get to know your sewing machine program that we put in the grant to purchase four sewing machines so we actually got four sewing machines some staff have been trained on those and then when we've done subsequent sewing programs either you can bring your own machine or you can borrow the one that the library has and that has been very successful so this is actually a poster from one of our first programs where we actually did a class with the sewing machine other than just learning about your machine this was our first actual project it was called learn to sew a bendy bag and it's kind of a little square bag with a zipper that goes around two sides there and Kath who had done her first program was very she's the one that picked out the pattern and was very willing to come in and teach it and actually she got quite excited and she's an awesome presenter so we're very grateful and thankful to have her come for that and she keeps coming up with other ideas she goes well how about we do one of these I'm like Kath as long as you're on board we're on board so that's great and how much of the materials is in this case what we did is there you can see kind of in the middle it says ask staff for information and so pretty much we said gave you a list of what to bring pick out whatever fabric you want there's a pattern to purchase from a local sewing store and then they told you exactly what to purchase from that and then they said bring your sewing machine or you can reserve one from ours don't just show up and hope to get it you just put your name down and make sure if you need one of our machines yeah so you can have one of those machines and so we have a nice kind of like little recipe list of things you need to bring along yeah because someone actually had a question too about that the previous flyer that was for the Gear Vantage one for the play date with dot and dash do you have loaner tablets available for those who don't have their own for those kind of things there are iPads that people can use they can bring their own or I would say something like this too similar thing I guess that we have some but yeah and then what we did find is even though we said that I've had it available and most people got that information because it would be a pre-register situation where they would call the library and we would keep a list of everybody and then we either email it to them or if they were in the library we would give them a hard copy of what to bring you would have people who would show up who wouldn't have it or they wouldn't have everything they need so we did find we have asked for donations for supplies in certain cases when we had our art journaling programs in the past we'd say does anybody have scrapbook material that they don't want boom all of a sudden you have these people who have this great beautiful stuff that they don't want to keep anymore but don't know how to move on so that's another wonderful way to get resources for your library without purchasing them same thing with fabric after is usually have some great supplies leftover that they don't have yeah made a costume or made something well now the extra pieces and sometimes I use it for something new most time it just keeps adding adding to my pile and we have learned too that for future grants we know what to ask for to put in future grants that we should have a supply of fusible fusible interface on hand extra there were a lot of people who did not have a zipper for this so I had actually bought extra for myself and my kids to work on and instead we just let other people use it I said if you've come and you don't have the resources you're not going to get anything out of this and I can do this like this go ahead and use this so that's what we did in that case and this poster here is one of the first ones where LMNOP changes it's logo to the maker logo from the books logo make library makers sign out make do become is a tagline that we put on there awesome that's a great thing this is a picture from an open house we had at Bennett Martin where we showcased a lot of the things that were purchased for the makerspace grants and here you can see a young lady with us learning how to sew what we did is we had some strips of fabric and we just let them practice different stitches on the sewing machine and made their own bookmark so that was another thing that they did and that was something that we just came up with it's like well why don't you make a bookmark and it worked out really well and then everybody got to try a bunch of different stitches on the fabric right there oh and you can see here a lot of our staff have these shirts that say libraries are more than books Cheli are both wearing them there libraries change lives is what it says on the back libraries are more than books libraries change lives lives and here is another program that Kath did for us we just did this one in February and March this was learning how to applique and this was another great program because applique is kind of a concept that's hard to understand a little bit but you have one piece of fabric there's some fusible interfacing between it and then it's ironed on to another fabric under the grey fabric that you see there's some batting so she taught us how to first put the batting together top pieces put together and then how to top stitch around it so we had our choice of well you could do anything you wanted but it was between Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day so she had these ideas here and we did this two times we did it one Saturday Saturday morning and then a Sunday afternoon we did two and then one time when we had a person who couldn't finish in one session she came back to the next session but having these projects people can come in and actually physically make something and take it away and take it home has been really really rewarding for everyone and then some of the other items that we have that we got with this grant we got calligraphy sets different types of crafts craft supplies and then construction like hammers and saws and different things like that zentangle cards connectagons and zoobs which are some things for our preschoolers and then a lot of those things for the preschoolers we three different days at our branch after our story times we had what we called creative play and so we hauled into the story time rooms at the end of the story both our preschool and our toddler time story times we had zentangles, the zoobs, the connectagons there's a lot of games there card games, we had magnetic magnetiles magnetic alphabet puzzles matching card games fellow looks and it was for kids there was mom bonding time we made coffee, had apple juice and all of ours for a snack and I don't think anybody left story time they all stayed for probably a full hour in there they played, we opened up both rooms it was amazing and everyone was like what are you doing this again? are you going to do this every week? every time but this is something we probably need to incorporate because you would not believe how eclectic the room was excited that people were we had time to show off the new things that we had purchased in our grant let people experience them but I think we really need to bring them out regularly we know that children learn how to learn while they play that's what it's all about so this was really important and one of the key feedback pieces we heard from parents of really young children who aren't yet in preschool or even in daycare they're just at home this was a great opportunity for those children to learn how to socialize oh right so they really appreciated that we had a daycare there and they wanted to know where did you buy all of these we want them in our daycare and for the moms it was great because they were out of story time so they could really interact with each other it was that mom bonding time that we talked about and we had children crying when it was over they did not want to leave crying in a good way so this is something it was one of the most positive experiences we really need to do it again regularly we're changing how story time works every time now it's all a creative play so that was really wonderful it just makes a long time that they will spend in the library yes that was really good and then something else that we did in February was get creative with paper and this we held the night before Valentine's Day and three of our staff came up with different ways to be creative with paper and you could make flowers and vases from recycled paper we had wreaths they could make and I'm trying to think what else there was some other things art journaling pages there were art journaling pages yes and so we had some families come in and do all of their Valentine's oh picture frames was the other thing one of the cutest stories we had was there was a father and a son that came in together without the mom and the idea was to make Valentine's for the mom and the dad decided since he was there he would make flowers and a vase for the mom too and so he did that but then the little boy behind dad's back with some of the other attendees actually it was the sewing woman made a card for dad without dad so that was pretty cool and it was just fun to watch the interaction of another attendee helping him make the card for dad so you really get that interaction between attendees at these creative programs and a whole sense of community exactly anybody who's in the library exactly yeah and that showed a lot of our donated paper products for you too yes we also have the little gizmo the gizmos and gadgets and the making makey someone has a question about some of the things you had I think going back when you were talking about other things you bought with the grants where do you do you have a list somewhere of what you got in the grant or where to purchase all of these things and what might be most popular out of all of them I think first is there somewhere where someone can see what everything you got in the grant Julie Bino is probably the best person to ask contact Julie Bino and I would say the most popular is probably the robots always the robots the like of mindstorms dash and dot ozobots anything robot related definitely I haven't had one of those and a lot of these things are fabulous to have in the library are cost prohibitive to some people they are a little bit higher a lot of people do have them on their own but they are a higher ticket item so it's great for libraries to be able to share those sources with other people so Julie was in charge of the grant then that's okay so yeah Julie Bino at Ben and Martin look her up let's see so here's the makey makey this is at the same open house I showed a couple of pictures of it earlier Shang-Man made a banana piano with the makey makey and then on the right here I think is the synth and then in that same picture in the upper left is a 3D printed violin that we were able to borrow and we had a sterling musician walking around playing the 3D violin we did not print that at Lincoln City Libraries it was loaned to us for the day but you really could play music on bananas yes you really could yes here's some of the card games that we got with the grant and those some of those were for teens and we have used those with teens after school but some of those are for preschoolers and we did have those at our creative play on the right here is a picture of the Ozobots and we did have a robot dance hop in our Ozobots and that was for ages kindergarten through fifth grade and so what we did with that is we had the kids come in and in the upper left here you can see one of our staff members Becca teaching some probably first and second graders how to write code in Ozoblocky on an iPad and then we had four teams who wrote some programming code to have their Ozobots dance and then each of the Ozobots took a turn on the dance floor and we decided which Ozobot had the best dance the best moves yes and actually everybody was a winner that day so it was all good but what it shows you is that these kids can write code and it really keeps them interested and it's a good skill for them to have we also there's our picture of Lego Mindstorms in Dottendash and with our Lego Mindstorms at our branch we did a program where the kids could learn to write code using the Lego code and then they were well beyond me I had some challenges that they could do and they were beyond me within like the first 10 minutes and they had this guy throwing balls and running around and stuff like that it's good to have a lot of these different robots too because you're just saying the Lego language or the they're all different and that's something good to learn that there's lots of different programming languages if you ever go into that for a career everything is going to be a little different you almost need to know that at this point and when we got these I did not know how to do any of this you can look it up online and there's tutorials and once you started it's not that hard and the kids are so forgiving when you work with them or they'll teach you and they love that what did we learn through this whole process first of all the main thing is that it's okay to change your programming you don't have to start out one way that's what that's what we're talking about with evolution we started out small and low tech we evolved in LMNOP when we took a look at what other people wanted and had those discussions with them and then that's evolved into becoming makerspaces and then following the library trend of the makerspaces and we're lucky enough with at Lincoln City Libraries to have this grant then to be able to have this opportunity to expand it even further so things are just really going farther and farther that way the other thing that is very important is that is the concept of engagement when you engage the people that you're working with you're in patrons when you talk to them and when you engage with them as a staff person you learn more about them and what they want and when a program becomes meaningful for a person they are enriched by that and then they will get more out of it they're going to want to come to your programs they are going to give you feedback but if they just come into your place and just get what they need and leave there's really no interaction that way and you can't help each other it's a mutual thing both as a two-way street they're going to support you if you can enrich them somehow and another besides just the book aspect which is important to enrich them as a person through the programming we found that that to be very important if you give them programs that they're not going to be interested in you're not going to have anybody showing up you're not going to be able to have future support and others so that's really important to have them come back we also want to give them options you don't want to give them open-ended questions by saying what kind of programs do you want sometimes it helps us to say would you like to see a program about this would you like to see a program about that start with thinking about the programs that maybe you do want to show them and say do you have interest in this and you'll find out quickly whether or not if they do or don't this is another one of my favorite quotes I haven't failed I just found 10,000 ways that didn't work Thomas Edison and if he wouldn't have kept going we would be all in the dark it would be a really dark world that we'd be sitting in so that just means try a program see what works see what works in your community because the things that we've talked to you about today might not always work in everyone's community so we don't know what is great to do out there it also is encouraging to the people coming to a creative program we want you to try different things we want you to see maybe you like sewing and you don't like like a Mindstorms but maybe somebody who is sewing hears about our Mindstorms program which actually did happen we had them come and they said oh you've got more programs you know I think I'll give that a try and I'll bring my son and they came and they find out that they love it that opportunity unless you have those discussions so they can come and be creative at the same time and then another fun one insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results so that just means keep trying, keep doing different things do different things if it's not working for you do something different if it is working for you keep going and expanding and seeing what else you can do and that's by Albert Einstein there we go thank you very much and look for Julie Bino too if you need more about the grant specifically and everything okay anybody have another last minute questions you want to get in type them into the questions section we already had some of course and I grabbed throughout as we're going we're going to wrap this up in just a minute here we're a little after 11 o'clock but we started after 10 so that's fine like I said I attended this session at the conference and I thought it was really cool all the different things that you're doing and just the switch to listening and switch from it's for moms but no it's not it's for everybody because nobody cares anymore what things specifically for it they'll just come to anything they'll make you change it which is okay, which is the whole point so thank you very much that's great and Leanne feel better it's like nothing is being typed in desperately right now but you guys have their contact info reach out to them for any other anything that you want to ask I have a presentation so that's going to be posted later as well so if you didn't want to know if you didn't 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